PLATYRHYNCHUS CAPENSIS.— Smith. 
Aves. — Plate XXYII. (Male and Female.) 
Mas . — PL capite supra nigro ; cervice dorsoque flavo-brunneis, fusco-strigatis ; subtus sordid^ albus, parce 
fusco-strigatus ; capistro, spatiisque ante oculos pallidk flavis ; alarum tectricibus minoribus, remigium 
tectricibus, remigibusque griseo-brunneis, quibusdam subflavo-marginatis, lineas obliquas duos 
versus basin alarum formantibus; rectricibus griseo-brunneis pallid^ flavo-brunneo marginatis. 
Mandibula superiore olivaceo-brunnea, inferiore subflava, ambobus argenteo-nitentibus ; pedibus, 
unguibusque viride-flavis. 
Fem . — Capite sordid^ griseo, fusco-strigato, aliter ut in mare. 
Longitudo corporis cum capite 3 unc. 5 lin. ; caudse 2 unc. 5 lin. 
Colour. — Space between eye and bill straw-yellow ; upper part of head 
black, with a few of the feathers at the base of the bill narrowly edged with 
white. The back and sides of the neck, the interscapulars, the scapulars, the 
back, and the rump, intermediate between yellowish brown and oil-green, 
each feather with an oblong, umber-brown stripe along its centre — the feathers 
of the neck are dusky grey towards their bases, those of the back pure white. 
Chin, throat, breast and belly dirty white and variegated with narrow, longi- 
tudinal, greyish brown streaks ; the sides of the breast and the vent are 
faintly tinted here and there with ochre-yellow. Lesser wing-coverts, primary 
and secondary quill-coverts, quill feathers and tail dark greyish brown ; seve- 
ral of the lesser coverts and the secondaiy quill-coverts are broadly tipt with 
dull sienna-yellow, and in this way are formed two oblique stripes of that 
colour towards the anterior portion of each wing ; — each of the first-named 
feathers which is so tipt has also a longitudinal umber-brown stripe in the 
course of the shaft ; — the secondary wing coverts, together with the tertiary 
quill feathers and a few of the innermost of the secondary quill coverts are 
margined externally with pale yellowish brown, and as well as the remaining 
quill feathers internally with white, most distinctly towards their bases. Tail 
feathers faintly edged with light olive-brown, the colour most palpable upon 
the outer vanes. Upper mandible dark olive-brown, lower, pale straw yellow, 
and both are glossed with a silvery lustre. Feet and claws greenish yellow. 
Form.— Figure robust; feathers lax and silky. Head large and broad ; 
bill much depressed, very wide at the base and nai row at the tip, the 
