20. ERYTHROPYfilA. 75 



secondaries black, margined and tipped with deep fulvous ; primaries 

 with a small white spot at the base ; upper tail-coverts ferruginous, 

 ■with paler tips and having a subterminal shade of blackish ; tail- 

 feathers blackish, margined with ])ale ferruginous, all but the centre 

 feathers tipped with white, inci'easiug towards the outermost, where 

 it extends also along the outer web : crown of head more dusky than 

 the back, ashy brown, streaked with blackish centres to the feathers ; 

 nape and hind neck ashy brown, not streaked : lores and the ad- 

 jacent part of the eyelid dusky ; eyebrow white, very distinct and 

 reaching from the base of the nostril to above the ear- coverts, sepa- 

 rated from the head by a line of black : feathers round the eye white, 

 except near the lores and ear-coverts, where they resemble these 

 parts; feathers below the eye white; ear-coverts light brown, the 

 upper part dusky, and on the hinder part a line of black from the 

 gape to the ear-coverts ; cheeks white, separated from the throat by 

 a broad line of black ; sides of neck ashy brown like the hind neck ; 

 throat pure white ; fore neck and chest white, with large triangular 

 black spots ; breast tinged with fulvous and streaked with black ; 

 abdomen cream}' white : sides of body and flanks fulvous, streaked 

 with black; thighs whitish ; under tail-coverts creamy Avhite ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries pure white, the lower series ashy, the 

 edge of the wing mottled with black bases ; quills below dusky 

 brown, their inner edge white ; " bill dusky brown, with the basal 

 part of the lower mandible yellow ; tarsi and feet pale dingy ash- 

 colour ; irides light dusky brown " {T. Ayns). Total length 6'1 

 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 2-6, tail 2-5, tarsus 1. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in plumage. Total length o'6 

 inches, culmen 0"6, wing 2"75, tail 2-f), tarsus 0"95. 



In hreeding ]j^'^''>^^('9^ the feathers become much worn, and the fore 

 neck and breast are thickly covered with narrow blackish streaks ; 

 the white ends to the tail-feathers are also gTeatly abraded. 



A bird obtained by Mr. Atmore still shows traces of immature 

 plumage in the shape of whitish endings to the dorsal feathers and 

 upper tail-coverts, the outeimost of which have a subterminal black 

 spot before the white tip ; the markings ai'e otherwise as in the 

 adult, but the black streaks on the under surface are not so numerous. 



IJah. Southern and South-eastern Africa. From the Knysna to 

 the south-eastern districts of the Cape Colony and British Cafi'raria, 

 ranging through the Transvaal into the Mashoona country : said to 

 have been obtained by Fornasini in ^lozambique ; but the species 

 may have been E. zamhesiana from this locality. 



a,h. c? $ ad. sk. Cambridge, Mav 14, 1S77 Capt. H. Trevelvan 



{C. Nncby). ' [P.l. 



c. (J imm. sk. Eland's Post, Mav 1870 R. B.'Sharpe, Esq. 



(T. C. Atmore).' 



d. Ad. sk. Eland's Post, July 1870 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



(T.C.A.). 



e. tS ad.sk. Transvaal, November 1873 C. G. and "V\ . Oates, 



(Frank Oates). Esqrs. [P.]. 



/. Ad. sk^ South Africa. Sir A. Smith [C.]. 



(Type of J?, pcctoralis.) 



