Belongs within: Emberizidae.
The cape bunting Emberiza capensis is a bunting species found in southern Africa, mostly in rocky habitats.
Characters (Rising et al. 2011): 15–16 cm; 17–27 g. Male nominate race has head striped black and white, with narrow white median crownstripe; mantle and back grey-brown with prominent dark streaking, merging into plainer rump; upperwing-coverts rich chestnut (forming distinct shoulder patch), greater coverts with blackish-brown inner webs; flight-feathers blackish-brown with rufous outer margins; throat off-white, underparts pale grey, undertail-coverts whitish; iris dark brown; bill dark grey, paler lower mandible; legs dark grey to pinkish-grey. Female slightly smaller than male, very similar in plumage, may appear duller with brown tinge in head stripes. Juvenile similar to female, sometimes with diffuse streaking on breast.
<==Emberiza capensis Linnaeus 1766RJ11
|--E. c. capensisRJ11
|--E. c. basutoensis (Vincent 1950)RJ11
|--E. c. bradfieldi (Roberts 1928)RJ11
|--E. c. cinnamomea (Lichtenstein 1842) [incl. E. c. media]RJ11
|--E. c. limpopoensis (Roberts 1924)RJ11
|--E. c. nebularum (Rudebeck 1958)RJ11
|--E. c. plowesi (Vincent 1950)RJ11
|--E. c. reidi (Shelley 1902)RJ11
|--E. c. smithersii (Plowes 1951)RJ11
|--E. c. vinacea Clancey 1963RJ11
`--E. c. vincenti (Lowe 1932)RJ11
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[RJ11] Rising, J. D., A. Jaramillo, J. L. Copete, P. G. Ryan & S. C. Madge. 2011. Family Emberizidae (buntings and New World sparrows). In: Hoyo, J. del, A. Elliott & D. A. Christie (eds) Handbook of the Birds of the World vol. 16. Tanagers to New World Blackbirds pp. 428–683. Lynx Edicions: Barcelona.