186 
23. 
Var. A. 
DEscrIPTION. 
24. 
Var. B 
DescaiprTion. 
Be aN Es Ne Ga 
L’Ortolan 4 ventre jaune du Cap de Bonne Efperance, Buf. oi/, iii. p. 326.— 
PI. enl. 664. f. 2. (the male). f. 1. (the female, or a young bird), 
ENGTH fix inches and a quarter. Bill dufky : top of the 
head and fides yellowifh white : over the eye from the noftrils 
an arched ftripe of black; behind the eye a fecond; and from 
the lower mandible another, quite irregular, pafling in the direc- 
tion of the jaw, and uniting at the back part with the two 
others, wholly furrounding the fide of the head: at the nape is 
a patch of the fame colour: the lower part of the neck and 
back are brown; the feathers margined with paler brown: the 
rump grey: all the under parts yellow, inclining to red on the 
breaft, and verging to white at the chin and vent: the leffer 
wing coverts cinereous ; the middle ones white ; and the greater 
black, with rufous margins: quills black, bordered with white, 
but thofenext the body have the edges rufous: the tail appears 
forked, and each of the bifurcations is cuneiform in_ itfelf, 
as the outer and inner feathers of both parts are fomewhat 
fhorter than the others; the two middle feathers are dufky 
brown, the others dufky with pale edges, and fome of the outer 
ones are tipped with white: the legs are pale flefh-colour. This. 
is fuppofed to be the male. 
‘HE other figure has the upper parts rufous brown: the 
middle of the feathers dufky : the rump afh-colour : the mid- 
dle of the wing rufous longitudinally the whole way from the 
bend: the under parts of the body dirty white: the head is not 
black, but only two black ftreaks on the fides, the one behind 
the 
