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RUFOUS L, La Va « oIe » Bu f- »'/' v. P- 63. 



Petite Alouette de Buenos Ayres, PL enl, 738. f. i. 



Description. HPHIS is five inches and a quarter long. The bill eight lines*, 

 and brown: the top of the head and upper part of the body 

 blackifh, mixed with various tints of rufous : the fore part of the 

 neck enamelled with the fame :. the throat,, and all the under parts 

 of the body, white : the greater quills grey, the lefTer brown; all of 

 them edged with rufous : the tail feathers brown ; the eight mid- 

 dle ones bordered with pale rufous ; the two outmoft with white :. 

 the legs yellowifh. 

 Place.. We meet with this bird at Buenos Ayres, and elfewhere in the 



neighbourhood of the river Plata, in South America. 



CINEREOUS L. La Cendrille ' Bu f- **/• v * P* 6 4- • 



Leu. Muf. 



Description. T ENGTH fix inches. Bill three quarters of an inch : the 

 noftrils placed in a fofc membraneous furrow, but the aper- 

 ture very fmall and round: the plumage above, alh-colour % 

 quills and tail dark brown : belly and vent white : the outer tail 

 feathers white on the outfide near the tip : legs dufky.. 



This I faw in the Leverian collection ; but whence it carne^, 

 not known. 



Buffon mentions a bird, the defcription of which was taken 

 from a drawing fent him from the Cape of Good Hope, which pof- 

 fibly might be the male of this. In his bird the top of the head 

 was rufous, forming a kind of hood, which was bordered from the- 

 bill to beyond the eye with white : quills and tail black. 



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