20. ERYXHEOPiGIA. 77 



^■J?!^ ' ?'."^^' ^""'^'^- ^- ^- P' -11' °°- -^^2 (1869) ; Skarpe, P. Z S. 

 }^o^\ ?■ i^ ' ^•^.'■''*' ^^''> l^^l' P- 1*53 ; -Sy*«;7,e, Cat. Afr. B. p. 29 

 (1»71); 6ri<;-«(7/ m .4«rfe/-ss. i?. Bam. Ld. p. 92 (1872) • Btickleii 

 Ibis, 1874, p. 372; Sharpe, ed. Layard B. S. Afr. p. 253 (1877) • 

 Bocai/e, Orn. Angola, p. 270 (1882) ; Shelleu, JMs, 1882, p 252 ' 

 Ihamnobia paena, Cab. Mtis. Hein. Th, i. p. 41 (1850). 



Adult female. General colour above sandy brown, the lower back 

 rump and upper tail-coverts brighter rufous ; lesser wing-coverts 

 like the back; median and greater wing-coverts dusky brown 

 externally sandy brown, paler on the edges ; bastard wing and 

 pnmary-covcrts dusky brown with ashy margins ; quiUs dark brown 

 externally edged with sandy rufous, broader on the secondaries the 

 tips narrowly fringed with white ; tail-feathers rufous, with a broad 

 subtermmal band of blackish brown, the feathers broadly tiiiped 

 with white, increasing in extent towards the outermost ; two centre 

 tail-feathers narrowly tipped with fulvous ; crown of head, nape 

 and hind neck ashy brown, contrasting with the back ; lores eye- 

 brow, and feathers round the eye sandy buff or huffy whitish • ear- 

 coverts light brown ; in front of the eye a dusky spot and a s'treak 

 above the ear-coverts ; cheeks and under surface of body sandy buff 

 more creamy bull' on the throat and abdomen ; sides of bodv flanks' 

 and under tail-coverts deeper fulvous; thighs creamy buff '• under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries creamy buff, washed with sandy'; quills 

 dusky brown below, the inner edge creamy buff. Total Icnc^th 6-3 

 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 2-65, tail 2-7, tarsus 1. 



Adult maU. Like the female in plumage. Total length ^-2 inches 

 culmen 0-7, wing 2-85, tail 2-75, tarsus 1. 



Ihd). South Africa : generaUy north of the Orange River, ex- 

 tending south of it to Colesberg, thence ranging through the Trans- 

 vaal to the Mashoona country, and on the western side reaching 

 trom Great Jsamaqua Land throughout Damara Laud to Benguela. 



a, b, c. 2 ad. sk. Griqualand, May 1871 E. B. Sharps, Esq. 



( T. a Atmore). ^ ' ^ 



«> <"• d" , /, 9- 2 ad- Potcliefstroom, Trans- Dr. H Exton TP 1 

 sk. vaal, July 1876 



{W. Lncas). 

 h. 2 ad. sk. Matabele Land, Sept. T. E. Bucklev, Esq. \V.^ 



20, 18/. 3. 1 L J 



I. 6 ad. sk. Otjimbinque, Damara R. E. Sharpe, Esq 



Laud, Feb. 11,1861 ^ 



(C. J. Amierssnn). 

 k. $ ad. sk. Otjimbinque, July 9, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



1860 {C.J. A.). ^ ^ 



^- ad. sk. Damara Land (G J. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



A!). 

 Wi.dad.sk. Catumbella, Benguela, R. B. Sharpe Esq 



Dec. 31, 1868 (&/«). ' 



