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tinge of olive; beneath white ; eye placed in a black streak, which 

 passes behind; throat black, lengthening to the nape half way on 

 each side ; across the breast a black streak, taking in the bend of the 

 wing, on the middle of the wing coverts a rufous patch, sides under 

 the wings rufous ; quills and tail black, outwardly fringed with white. 



Female smaller, like the male, but the throat and across the 

 breast rufous, instead of black; wings the same; lower belly and 

 thighs rufous; the wings reach one-third at least on the tail. 



Inhabits the environs of the Cape of Good Hope ; the male and 

 female always seen together among the bushes, rarely in the woods; 

 many about the River Duywenhoe, from thence to the Hottniqua 

 Country ; at which latter place, however, they are rarely or never 

 seen ; the eggs are said to be white, and six in each' nest ; the bird 

 feeds on insects, and at first sight appears not unlike a White Throat ; 

 the note like two stones clicked together.* 



13— PRIRIT FLYCATCHER. 



Gobe-mouches Pririt, Levail. Afr. iv. 38. pi. 161. 1. 2. 



SIZE of the last, and the male black and white. Bill and legs 

 horn-colour, at the base of the former several hairs; eyes pale yellow; 

 the chin and neck before white, passing behind ; top of the head 

 blue-grey; across the breast a black band, but the rest of the parts 

 beneath white ; wing coverts black ; the rest of the wing patched 

 and mixed with white; quills and tail black, the last rounded, the 

 feathers margined with white. 



The female is smaller : throat and breast pale rufous, passing 

 back to the neck, as the white does in the male; through the eye 

 the same kind of broad black streak, and the top of the head is grey; 

 plumage on the upper parts of the body pale rufous, with a blackish 



* The Stone-Chat has a similar note. 



