PTEROCLES YARIEGATUS. 
Aves. — Plate X. (Male.) — Burchell.* 
Mas. P. fronte nigra ; capite supra ochreo, nigro brnnncoquo variegato ; monto, capitis lateribus stria- 
que superciliari argentco-griseis ; collo supra, dorso, liumerisque olivaceo-brunneis guttis albis sparsis ; 
humerorum plumis quibusdara subrufis ; corpora subtus rufo-brunneo abdoraine pallidiori ; gutture 
pectoreque guttis albis variegatis ; tcetricibus primariis remigibusquo brunneis, lioruxn interioribus 
albo-tcrminatis ; racbidibus ad apicern brunneis, versus basin albis ; rectricibus duabus intermediis 
olivaceo-brunneis, pogoniis cxternis rufo-albo-subfasciatis, reliquis brunneo-nigris ; pogoniis cxternis 
rufo-albo-subfasciatis ; apicibus omnibus pallide ochreis ; rostro unguibusque nigro-brunncis ; oculis 
brunneis ; pedibus livido-brunncis. 
Fern. Mento, capitis lateribus stridque superciliari pallide ocbreis ; abdominc pallide rufo-brunneo, albo 
fasciato ; rectricibus nigro-brunneis sordide albo-subfasciatis : coloribus reliquis fere ut in mari. 
Colour. — Feathers immediately behind nostrils black ; f upper surface of 
head mottled with longitudinal stripes of ochry-yellow and dark umber- 
brown ; chin, sides of head, and a stripe over each eye, silvery-grey ; bare 
space round eye light yellow. The upper surface of the neck, the back, the 
upper tail coverts, and the shoulders, light olive-brown, with a strong shade 
of yellow, and freely sprinkled with small round white spots, — one spot on the 
margin of each web ; some of the shoulder feathers, particularly towards the 
wing coverts, intermediate between gall-stone yellow and reddish orange. 
The feathers of several of the parts enumerated are towards their bases either 
a light brown or an umber-brown, more or less glossed with gi'ey, and it is 
only towards their tips that they exhibit the olive-brown tint. Primary wing 
coverts, and the primary and secondary quill feathers light umber-brown ; all 
the primaries excepting the two or three outermost, tipt with white ; some of 
the innermost tertiaries and the scapulars brown, glossed with grey, and tipt 
with greenish yellow, each vane marked with a round white spot ; the shafts of 
both primaries and secondaries pure white, except towards their points, where 
they are of the same colour as the webs of the feathers. Secondary quill co- 
verts wood-brown, glossed with grey, and tipt, and partially edged with white. 
Under-surface of the neck and the breast rufous brown, sparingly spotted 
with white ; belly and inner surface of shoulders, and a stripe behind each eye, 
the same colour as the breast, only much paler; legs and under tail-cot eits 
pale ochre-yellow. The two centre feathers of the tail olive-brown, partially 
barred with tawny white, the remaining featheis biownish black, with one 01 
* Travels in South Africa, vol. ii. p. 345. 
t In some individuals the black is less intense, but in all the adult specimens of the species I have 
seen, it has always been very distinct. 
