CAPE WHEATEAR. 



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greater wing-coverts, upper and under tail-coverts, 

 white : throat dirty white : fore-part of the neck 

 the same, sprinkled with dirty black : breast orange, 

 palest on the lower parts : all but the two middle 

 tail-feathers with white tips ; the rest of the tail 

 brown. Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope. 



CAPE WHEATEAR. 

 (Vitiflora Hotentotta.) 



Vi,Julvo Jusca, gula abdomineque inferiore albidis, superiore uro' 

 pi/gioque Julvis, tectricihus caudce superioribus Jlamcantibus, 

 Cauda nigra basi alba, apice albida. 



Fulvous-brown Wheatear, with the throat and lower part of the 

 belly white ; the upper part and rump brown ; the upper tail- 

 coverts yellowish ; the tail black, with a white base and 

 whitish tip. 



Sylvia Hotentotta. Lath. Ind. Orn, 2. 531. 82. 

 Motacilla Hotentotta. Gmel, Syst, Nat. 1. 965. 

 Grand Motteux ou Cul-blanc du Cap de Bonne Esperance^ 



Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 248. 

 Cape Wheatear. Lath. Gen. Syn, 4. 470. 78. 



The Cape Wheatear, as its name imports, is 

 found at the Cape of Good Hope : it is eight 

 inches in length : the crown of the head and the 

 breast are varied with dark and pale brown : the 

 upper parts of the plumage fulvous brown : rump 

 with a pale fulvous band : upper tail-coverts white : 

 wings brown, edged with yellowish : upper parts 

 of the belly and sides fulvous 5 lower part of the 



