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ftripe of white near the gape of the bill, inftead of paffing down- 
wards on each fide of the neck, as in the laft-named bird. 
EN GT H five inches and ahalf. Bill orange brown : head 
and neck dufky black: upper parts of the body brown: 
wing coverts incline to afh-colour: prime quills dufky, edged 
with cinereous ; fecondaries dufky, the outer webs brown: the 
fix middle tail feathers dufky ; the next on each fide the fame, 
but white from the bafe to within a little of the end on the inner 
web; the two outer ones wholly white, except the end of the 
outermoft, which is fringed with dufky near the tip: under parts 
of the body pale: legs orange brown. : 
In Sir Fofeph Banks’s collection, from the Cape of Geod Hope. 
Le Gavoué de Provence, Buf: vif: iv. p, 321.—Pl. enl. 656. 1. 
LEN GTH four inches and two thirds. Bill dufky: upper 
parts not unlike our Reed Sparrow: through the eye a 
ftreak of white, paffing on each fide of the neck: under the eye a 
large patch of black: chin white: on each fide the throat, from 
the under jaw, a ftreak of black: breaft, and fides, pale brown, 
fpotted with black ; the reft of the under parts white: acrofs the 
middle of the wings a bar of white: quills and tail dufky, edged 
with rufous: legs pale brown. 
Inhabits Provence: feeds on grain: perches often. In April 
is faid to fing agreeably. Is called there Chic-gavotte, and Chic- 
mouftache, 
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