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description and with a typical example in the British 
Museum. 
[This handsome Bunting was occasionally met with on 
the western side of Abyssinia, but was distinctly a rare 
bird.—-L.] 
58. Fringillaria septemstriata. 
Fringillaria septemstriata (Rupp.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. 
Mus. xii. p. 559 (1888) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xxvi. 
p. 269 (1888). 
a. ^. Gerru, Abyssinia, 6 February, 1899. (No. 293.) 
Iris brown ; bill dark; legs brown. 
The true F. septemstriata (Rupp.), with almost the whole of 
the inner webs of the primaries rufous, and only the tips dusky, 
is apparently not met with east of Abyssinia ; westward its 
range extends to the River Niger, and it has been got as far 
south as Lake Victoria Nyanza by Mr. F. J. Jackson. None 
of the birds obtained by Mr. Lort Phillips in Somaliland 
belong to this species, but should, in our opinion, be referred 
to the Southern form, F. tahapisi. The true F. septemstriata 
has the whole of the outer secondaries chestnut, only the 
terminal portion (about 0 5 inch) being dusky. The bird 
shot by Lord Lovat at Laga Hardim, in the north-west 
of the Galla country, can only be referred to F. tahapisi. 
[Seen at intervals throughout our journey almost as far 
west as the Blue Nile.—L.] 
59. Fringillaria tahapisi. 
Fringillaria tahapisi (Smith) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 
xii. p. 558 (1888) ; Lort Phillips, Ibis, 1898, p. 399 
[N. Somaliland]. 
Fringillaria septemstriata Lort Phillips (nec Riippell), Ibis, 
1898, p. 399 [N. Somaliland]. 
a. ? [evidently ] • Laga Hardim, Abyssinia, 14 January, 
1899. (No. 181.) 
Iris brown ; bill dark ; legs brown. 
60. Tephrocorys ruficeps. 
Tephrocorys ruficeps (Rupp.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 
xiii. p. 563 (1890) 5 id. P. Z. S. 1895, p. 471. 
