CAPE WHEATEAR. 573 



greater wing-coverts, upper and under tail-coverts, 

 white : throat dirty white : fore-part of the neck 

 the same, sprinkled with dirty black : breast orange, 

 palest on the lower parts : all but the two middle 

 tail-feathers with white tips ; the rest of the tail 

 brown. Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope. 



CAPE WHEATEAR. 

 (Vitiflora Hotentotta.) 



Vi.fulvofusca, gula abdomineque inferiore albidis, superiore uro- 

 pygioque fulvis, tectricibus caudcs superioribus Jlavicantibus, 

 cauda nigra basi alba, apice alb Ida. 



Fulvous-brown Wheatear, with the throat and lower part of the 

 belly white ; the upper part and rump brown ; the upper tail- 

 coverts yellowish; the tail black, with a white base and 

 whitish tip. 



Sylvia Hotentotta. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 531. 82. 



Motacilla Hotentotta. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1 . 965. 



Grand Motteux ou Cul-blanc du Cap de Bonne Esperance, 

 Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 248. 



Cape Wheatear. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 470. 78. 



THE Cape Wheatear, as its name imports, is 

 found at the Cape of Good Hope : it is eight 

 inches in length : the crown of the head and the 

 breast are varied with dark and pale brown : the 

 upper parts of the plumage fulvous brown : rump 

 with a pale fulvous band : upper tail-coverts white : 

 wings brown, edged with yellowish : upper parts 

 of the belly and sides fulvous j lower part of the 



