212 YELLOW-BELLIED, OR CAPE BUNTING. 



matic works respecting the original E. Capensis, 

 apparently originating in Dr. Latham placing under 

 the same name, what appears to be very different 

 birds. The original figure and description of Buf- 

 fon, from which apparently the Doctor has drawn 

 up his account, is sufficiently accurate to mark that 

 bird as the adult male ; a specimen of which we 

 have examined, from the Cape. Another., here de- 

 scribed, was sent from Senegal, and this we consider 

 the female; we consequently reject all the other 

 synonyms that have been applied to the E. Capensis, 

 both by Latham and by subsequent writers. 



The adult male differs from that described be- 

 neath, by having the breast deep orange; the last 

 range of the lesser wing-covers and a half collar on 

 the nape, pure white ; the greater covers black, tipt 

 also with white ; there is more white also on the tail. 



The colouring of our present bird is singularly 

 varied ; the top and sides of the head are covered by 

 alternate black and white stripes ; the former being 

 broadest. The white stripes are thus disposed ; one 

 is on the centre of the crown, another springs from 

 the nostrils and passes over the eye, a third takes 

 its rise before the eye, and then passes under it, so 

 as to cross the ears; this again is followed by a 

 slender black stripe, below which there is a fourth 

 stripe of white which adjoins the white spot on the 

 chin, and the yellow on the throat. All these stripes 

 terminate equally at the back of the head, and are 

 margined by a line of black. The ground colour of 

 the remaining upper plumage is light grey, tinged 



