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6. Erythropygia zambesiana. (Plato XV. tig. 1.) 

 Ervthropvgia zauibsslana, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 589, pi. xlv. 

 fig. 2 < 



Adult. General colour above sandy rufous, slightly greyer on the 

 head and mantle, more rufous on the lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts ; mediau and greater coverts brown, edged with sandy 

 rufous and tipped with white so as to form a double wing-bar ; 

 bastard wing dark brown, edged with white ; primary-coverts and 

 quills dark brown, externally edged with sandy rufous, which is 

 paler and broader on the secondaries ; tail-feathers chestnut, the 

 centre feathers tipped with fulvous, before which is a broad sub- 

 terminal band of dark brown, this band being broader on all the 

 other feathers, which are tipped with white, the outermost feather 

 being also externally edged with white ; lores and feathers round the 

 eye buily white, separated from the crown by a narrow line of 

 black, scarcely sufficient to call an eyebrow ; ear-coverts, cheeks, and 

 sides of neck light sandy rufous, the ear-coverts with whitish shaft- 

 lines ; throat and under surface of body white, with a narrow 

 moustachial line of blackish streaks ; fore neck and chest also 

 streaked with blackish ; sides of body and Hanks pale sandy rufous ; 

 thighs and under tail-coverts white ; under wing-coverts and axil- 

 laries white ; quills brown below, the inner edge ashy whitish. 

 Total length 5-2 inches, culmcn 07, wing 2-55, tail 2-5, tarsus 0-95. 



Hab. Zambesi. 



a. Ad. sk. Tete, Zambesi (Sir J. Kirk). Livingstone Expedition, 



(Type of species.) 



7. Erythropygia ruficauda. (Plate XV. fig. 2.) 



Aedon leucopbrys {non V.), Sharpe 8f Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zoo!. France, 



1876, p. 305. 

 Erythropygia ruficauda, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 589, pi. xlv. fig. 1. 



Adult. General colour above rusty brown, becoming clear rufous 

 on the lower back and rump ; lesser wing-coverts dusky, edged with 

 sandy browu ; median and greater series dusky, tipped with white, 

 forming a double wing-bar; bastard wing dusky, edged with white; 

 primary-coverts dusky, fringed with fulvous ; quills dusky brown, 

 externally rusty brown, whitish at the tips, more broadly so on the 

 secondaries ; primaries with a fulvescent spot at the base ; upper 

 tail-coverts clear rufous like the rump ; tail-feathers rufous, broadly 

 tipped with white, with a broad subterminal black band, the two 

 centre feathers not tipped with white, rufous on the inner web and 

 near the shaft on the outer one, dusky brown along the outer web 

 and at the tip ; crown of head, nape, and hind neck more of a dusky 

 ash-brown than the back ; lores and a distinct eyebrow white, 

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



* The colouring of the species in this plate is not quite correctly rendered. 

 The shade of brown on the upper surface should be much paler and more 

 sandy. 



