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CAPE BUNTING. 

 (Emberiza capensis.) 



E. nigra-riifescenteque varia, subtus grisea, gula albida, Jascia 



oculari maxiilarumque 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. 14. f. 4. 

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



328.— Buff. PI. Enl. 158./. 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. 



