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CAPE BUNTING. 

 (Emberiza capensis.) 



E. nigra-riifesoenteque varia, subtus grisea, gala albida, Jascia 



oculari maxillarumque nigricante. 

 Bunting variegated with black and reddish; beneath grey; 



throat white, with a dusky band near the eye and jaw. 

 Emberiza capensis. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 310. 9. — Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. 1. 878. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 407- 28. 

 Hortulanus Capitis Bonae Spei. Briss. 3. 280. 7. t. 1'i.f. 4. 

 Ortolan du Cap de Bonne Esperance. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4, 



328.— Buff. PI. Enl. 158. f. 2. 

 Cape Bunting. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 185. 23. 



Size of the Angola Bunting : length five inches 

 and a half: beak dusky, varied with black on the 

 upper parts : top of the head and neck dirty grey 

 variegated with black : sides of the head and chin 

 dirty white, marked with two black streaks, one 

 passing through the eyes, the other beneath them : 

 under parts dirty yellowish white : lesser wing-co- 

 verts rufous ; greater ones, quills, and tail, dusky, 

 with the margins rufous : legs blackish. Inhabits 

 the Cape of Good Hope. 



