BRACHONYX PYRRHONOTHA. 
Aves. — Plate CX. Fig. i . 
B. cervice dorsoque rufescentibus brunneo-variatis ; guttere peotoreque albis, ultimo brunneo-strigato ; ab- 
domine auranteo-albo ; remigibus brunneis, rufo-marginatis ; plumis scapularibus nigro-brunneis ex- 
terne rufo-fasciatis. 
L’Alocette a Dos Roux, Lc Vaillant, Ois d’Afrique, pi. 197. 
Alauda PyRRHONOTHA, Vieillot, Ornithologie Part Premiere, p. 322. 
Alatjda Erythronotus, Stephens’ Continuation of Shaw’s Zoology. 
Inkelde Lewerk of the Dutch Colonists. 
Colour. — The upper surface of the head light chestnut-brown, the feathers 
towards the nape streaked with umber-brown ; the back of the neck, the 
back, the rump, and the shoulders rufous, or a pale rusty reddish orange, 
each feather variegated towards the quill with an umber-brown stripe, and 
many of them with a curved bar of the same colour, situated directly behind 
the white or reddish white edging which terminates the feather. Throat and 
breast white, the lower portion of the former and all the latter streaked with 
umber-brown ; the sides of the breast, the belly, flanks, and under tail coverts 
rusty buff-orange. Primary quill coverts umber-brown, edged with rusty 
sienna-yellow; secondary quill coverts reddish brown, tipped with sienna- 
yellow, and barred behind the tip with umber-brown. Primary and secondary 
quill feathers reddish brown, the outer vanes and tips sienna -yellow or rusty 
white, the two innermost tertiaries and the scapular feathers rusty orange- 
brown, edged with white and barred with liver-brown. Tail feathers generally 
uinber-brown, the outer vanes and tips edged with pale rufous ; the two 
middle feathers rusty reddish orange, barred with liver-brown. Eyes bright 
chestnut-brown. Bill above buff-orange, shaded towards the point with 
greenish brown ; lower mandible greenish brown towards point, towards base 
light greenish yellow. Tarsi and toes pale buff-orange, tinted with flesh- red, 
claws the same colour shaded with greenish brown. 
Form, &c. — Figure rather robust ; wings when folded reach to nearly the 
middle of the tail, the third and fourth quill feathers rather longer than the 
