212 YELLOW-BELLIED, OB CAPE BUNTING. 
matic works respecting the original E. Capensu, 
apparently originating in Dr. Latham placing under 
the same name, what appears to be very different 
birds. The original figure and description of Buf- 
fon, from which apparently the Doctor has drawn 
up his account, is sufficiently accurate to mark that 
bird as the adult male ; a specimen of which we 
have examined, from the Cape. Another, here de- 
scribed, was sent from Senegal, and this we consider 
the female; we consequently reject all the other 
synonyms that have been applied to the E. Capcnsis, 
both by Latham and by subsequent writers. 
The adult male differs from that described be- 
neath, by having the breast deep orange ; the last 
range of the lesser wing-covers and a half collar on 
the nape, pure white ; the greater covers black, tipt 
also with white ; there is more white also on the tail. 
The colouring of our present bird is singularly 
varied ; the top and sides of the head are covered by 
alternate black and white stripes ; the former being 
broadest. The white stripes are thus disposed ; one 
is on the centre of the orown, another springs from 
the nostrils and passes over the eye, a third takes 
its rise before the eye, and then passes under it, so 
as to cross the ears ; this again is followed by a 
slender black stripe, below which there is a fourth 
stripe of white which adjoins the white spot on the 
chin, and the yellow on the throat. All these stripes 
terminate equally at the back of the head, and are 
margined by a line of black. The ground colour of 
the remaining upper plumage is light grey, tinged 
