P T E R O G I jÉ S T A R I E GATTJ'Ö.
A v e s.— P l a t e X. (M a l e .)— B urche ll .*
Mas. P. fronte nigra; capite supra ochreo, nigro brunneoque variegato; mento, capitis lateribus stria-
que superciliariargenteo-griseis; collo supra, dorso, humerisque olivaceo-brunneis guttis albis sparsis ;
humerorum plumis quibusdam subrufis ; corpore subtus rufo-brunneo abdomine pallidiori ; gutture
. pectoreque guttis albis variegatis ; tectricibus primariis remigibusque brunneis, horum interioribus
albo-terminatis ; rachidibus ad apicem brunneis, versus basin albis ; rectricibus duabus intermediis
olivaceo-brunneis, pogoniis extends rufo-albo-subfasciatis, reliquis brunneo-nigris ; pogoniis extends
rufo-albo-subfasciatis ; apicibus omnibus pallidè ochreis ; rostro unguibusque nigro-brunneis ; oculis
brunneis ; pedibus livido-brunneis.
Fem. Mento, capitis lateribus striâque superciliari pallide ochreis ; abdomine pallidè rufo-brunneo, albo
fasciato ; rectricibus nigro-brunneis sordidè albo-subfasciatis : coloribus reliquis fere ut in mari.
C olour.—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 grey, 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 coverts
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-coverts
pale ochre-yellow. The two centre feathers of the tail olive-brown, partially
barred with tawny white, the remaining feathers brownish black, with one or
* 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.