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by Mr. Claude Grant in South Africa. 
eyebrow, white lores, a white spot in the ear-coverts, and a 
white throat slightly spotted with brown; while the female 
of A. alario has no white on the head, throat, or ear-coverts, 
all of which are dusky brown. 
I think, therefore, there can be no question of the 
distinctness of the two species, though A. alario extends as 
far west as Klipfontein and A. leucolaema as far east as 
Deelf ontein. 
[This bird was fairly plentiful in Namaqualand. It was 
found in flocks and frequented homesteads and cultivated 
lands, feeding largely on the fallen grain, or at other times 
on various seeds. The males often indulge in a sweet little 
song and when feeding are continually calling. 
The soft parts are :—Irides dark hazel; bill horn-brown ; 
legs and toes brown.] 
101. Emberiza elaviventris. 
Tv. Klein Letaba, July, Aug., Sept. (8) ; Woodbush, 
Jan., May (3) ; Legogot, Apl. (1) ; F. Coguno, Aug. (2b 
[This Bunting was only noted from the East and North- 
Eastern Transvaal and the Inhambane district of Portuguese 
East Africa. I have always observed it singly or in pairs. It 
spends the greater part of its time on the ground searching 
for and feeding on various seeds; when disturbed it perches 
on a bush or low bough of a tree, and is usually tame and 
easily shot.' Its call is ff sissi-sissi see/'’ but is not often 
heard. The flight is quick and jerky, but never sustained. 
The soft parts are:—Irides hazel; bill, upper mandible 
dark horn-brown, lower fleshy ; legs and toes fleshy-brown.] 
102. Emberiza major. 
F. Tambarara, Mch., Apl. (3). 
Shelley does not recognise E. orientalis as distinct from 
E. major, and this widely spread tropical Bunting should be 
known under the latter and older name. It is a rare bird 
in South Africa, and there is only one example thence in the 
British Museum—a skin collected on the Hunyani River in 
Mashonaland by G. A K. Marshall. 
