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ary stripe pale buff; ear coverts and cheeks white spotted and 

 streaked with black. Throat and sides of neck white. Breast 

 buff streaked and spotted with brownish-black, lower parts, 

 flanks and under tail coverts pale buff inclining to white. Bill 

 long, slender, horn color. Tarsi and feet flesh color. Irides 

 brown. Total length, skin, 6.10 inches; wing, 4; tail, 3.50; 

 culmen, .70; tarsus, 1.20. Only one specimen of this new form 

 was obtained on the north side of Silo Plain. Possibly its 

 nearest relative is M. africana, Smith, but it differs greatly from 

 that species in all its ages. I compared this specimen with 

 the large series of africana in the British Museum Collection, and 

 from the adult it differs in its white throat, and the under parts 

 buff tinged with white, these parts on africana being deep buff; 

 while the coloring of the upper parts is in nowise alike. From 

 the young of africana it differs in having more of a buff tinge 

 beneath, and differently colored upper part, which in africana 

 juv. is hoary gray, or dark brown, with central black stripes. 

 The upper tail coverts in africana juv. are brown with narrow 

 black central stripes, totally different from those of the present 

 form. The primary coverts also in M. sharpiiare entirely rufous, 

 without any of the black streaks as in africana. I have pleasure 

 in bestowing upon this new form the name of my friend, Dr. R. B. 

 Sharpe, LL. D., of the British Museum. 



28. Galerita pallida, sp. nov. 



$ Dagahbur. 



$ Hersi Barri, Ogaden. 



Top of head pale rufous, each feather with a central black 

 streak. Crest composed of a slender bunch of similarly colored 

 narrow feathers .90 of an inch long, springing from the vicinity 

 of the occiput; upper parts and wings dark buff, paler than the 

 head, the feathers with black centers and whitish edges. Pri- 

 maries dark brown, buff on outer edge of outer web, and three- 

 fourths the edge of inner web, narrowing to a point as it goes 

 towards the tip. Secondaries blackish brown with bright buff 

 margins; under wing coverts rose color. Upper tail coverts 

 buff with black central streaks. Tail black, margined and tipped 

 with bright buff. Ear coverts and cheeks buff, streaked with 

 black. Throat white; breast pale buff thickly spotted with black, 

 almost forming a band below the throat. Under parts, flanks 

 and under tail coverts pale buff inclining to white in the center 



