YELLOW-BELLIED. OR CAPE BUNTING. 213 



with reddish rufous ; this latter colour, however, is 

 very strong on the middle of the scapular and inter- 

 scapular feathers, which have also a dark spot on 

 the centre. The wing- covers, primaries, and se- 

 condaries are dark brown, edged with very light 

 grey ; hut the outer webs and tips of the tertials are 

 rufous brown, but not so red as the back. The 

 three lateral tail-feathers on each side are more or 

 less white at the tips of their inner webs, but the 

 outermost one has the external web white, except 

 at its two ends. The under plumage is more simple. 

 The tip of the chin and the under tail-covers are 

 pure white ; and the sides of the body buff-brown, 

 but from the chin to the vent, the whole plumage 

 is of a full, bright, and uniform yellow. Bill and 

 legs brown ; thighs nearly white. 



Total length, 5^ ; bill from the front, T 4 S ; wings, 

 2 I 7 U ; tail from the base, 2^ ; tarsus, T ''0. 



WHITE-SPOTTED LARK. 



Certiiilauda nivosa, SWAINS. 



Above fawn or testaceous, spotted with white ; beneath white ; 

 the breast spotted with black ; middle and external tail- 

 feathers entirely testaceous ; bill slender. 



THE uniformity of colouring which runs through 

 nearly the whole of the Lark family, is one out of 

 the numberless instances of that harmonious design 



