The Rock Bunting Fringillaria capensis (L.) is widely distributed in South Africa, mainly south of the Cunene and Zambezi Rivers, but in the eastern parts of the continent it extends as far north as Nyasaland and adjoining parts of Portuguese East Africa. Just over a hundred years ago, Hartlaub (1857, p. lvii) included the species in his "Verzeichniss derjenigen Vögel Westafricas, welche zugleich in Südafrica angetroffen werden," and on p. 152 in the same work there is a quotation ("Angola: Henders.") to the effect that capensis occurs in Angola. However, Reichenow (1904-05, ili, p. 288) put this record in brackets, presumably because Barboza du Bocage (1881) did not mention the species at all. According to later authors (e.g., Sclater 1930, p. 830, and Praed and Grant 1955, p. 1094-1095), Fringillaria capensis does not occur north of the South West Africa - Angola border.