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8. Le Barbu a plaftron noir, Buf. elf. yd. p. 104. 



Var - a - Barbu du Cap de Bonne Efperance, PI. enl. 688. f. I. 



•IDssciurTioN, '"TpHE length of this fpecies is fix inches and a half. The bill 

 is black : the forehead is crimfon : from this pafles a ftripe 

 of black over the head, and down the back part of the neck to 

 the back : the fides of the head and neck are white, and pafies 

 forward to the breaft ; from which to the vent the under parts are 

 white : the white on the fides of the head is diverfified, firft, by 

 a ftreak of yellow, which is placed over the eyes ; and fecondly, 

 by an irregular ftreak of black, beginning at the bafe of the 

 upper mandible, and, dividing the white into two parts, ends on 

 the fhoulders : the chin and fore part of the neck are alfo black : 

 the upper parts of the body and wings are mixed brown and 

 yellow, the edges of the feathers being for the moft part fringed 

 with this laft colour j but the rump is almoft wholly of a pale 

 but bright yellow: the tail is brown, with yellow margins : the 

 legs are lead-colour. 

 P&Aci. This was received from the Cape of Good Hope. Its manners 



are totally unknown. 



This is either a young bird of the laft fpecies, or differing in 

 fex. The head, neck, and breaft correfpond ; but the body feems 

 more variegated ; the markings not fo diflincl as in the other, 

 which is the cafe often in young birds. 



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