8 
PLacz. 
21. 
CAPE 
Shr. 
DESCRIPTION: 
PLACE. 
SoH Rovl KE. 
head over the eye, paffes a white band, and through the eye, from the 
corners of the mouth, a black one; the under parts are all rufous 
white: the quills are black, edged outwardly with rufous: the tail is 
cuneiform, rather more fo than in the Woodchat; the two middle 
feathers of it are wholly, the others on the outer web rufous : the bill 
and legs are dufky. 
Tenabite Fava, in the Pepabonrhoon of Batavia, and is in the col- 
letion of MM, Levaillant. 
Le Brubru, Levaill. Oi. ii. p. 85. pl. 71. f. 1. 2 
HIS fpecies is about five inches and a half in length: the bill is 
black; irides brown: the top of the head, and hind part of 
the neck are black; the reft of the upper parts the fame, with a 
mixture of white: from the forehead, a white line paffes over the 
eye towards the hind head: the under parts are white, but the fides 
under the wings ferruginous; on the wings is a patch of white: the 
four middle tail feathers are black, the others more or lefs tipped 
with white, and the outer one wholly fo on the outer margin. 
The female is not unlike the male, but thofe parts which in that fex 
are white, in her are more or lefs inclined to ferruginous, and the 
black of a brownifh hue. 
Ic inhabits various places of the interior of the Cape of Good Hope, 
efpecially the great river; often in flocks, except in the feafon of 
incubation, at which time it is feen only in pairs; makes the neft 
on the Mimofa trees, compofed outwardly of mofs and fine roots, 
within with wool and feathers; lays five whitifh eggs, fpotted with 
brown. ; 
