BUNTING. 317 



27.— CAPE BUNTING. 



Emberiza Capensis, Ltd. Om. i. 407. Lin. i. 310. Gm. Lin. i. 878. Shaw's Zool. 



ix. 372. 

 Hortulanus Cap. B. Spei, Bris. iii. 280. 1. 14. 4. Id. 8vo. i. 3S7. 

 Ortolan du Cap. de B. Esp. Buf. iv. 328. PL enl. 158. 2. 

 Cape Bunting, Gen. Syn. iii. 189. 



LENGTH near six inches. Bill dusky; upper part of the head, 

 and neck, dirty grey and black mixed; sides of the head, and chin 

 dirty white, crossed with two streaks of black, the one through the 

 eyes, the other beneath them ; under parts dirty yellowish white ; 

 lesser wing coverts rufous ; the greater, quills, and tail dusky, edged 

 with rufous; legs blackish. 



Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope, and other parts of Africa ; also 

 Abyssinia, where it is very common ; has the manners of our common 

 House Sparrow. 



28— YELLOW-BELLIED BUNTING. 



Ortolan a ventre jaune, Buf.\v. 326. PL enl. 664. 2. Gen. Syn. iii. 186. A. 



LENGTH six inches and a quarter. Top of the head, and sides 

 yellowish white ; over the eye, from the nostrils, an arched stripe of 

 black; behind the eye a second, and from the under mandible 

 another, quite irregular, in the direction of the jaw, uniting at the 

 back part with the two others, wholly surrounding the head ; at the 

 nape a patch of the same; lower part of the neck, and back brown, 

 the feathers margined with paler brown ; rump grey ; all the under 

 parts yellow, inclining to red ou the breast, and to white on the chin 

 and vent; lesser wing coverts cinereous, the middle ones white, the 

 greater black, with rufous margins ; the quills black, bordered with 

 white, but those next the body have rufous edges ; the tail appears 



