96 TIMELIID^. 



coverts uuiform rufous ; lores and a very narrow superciliary line 

 Yellowish buff; feathers in front of the eye dusky; cheeks and 

 iuider surface of body yellowish buff, the throat whiter and sepa- 

 rated from the cheeks by a narrow malar line of blackish ; on the 

 sides of the fore neck and chest some small blackish streaks, more 

 developed on the sides of the breast, and much more so on the 

 flauks, thighs, and under tail-coverts, which are somewhat more richly 

 coloured ; uuder wing-coverts and asillaries uuiform fulvous ; quills 

 dusky below, fulveseent along the edge of the inner web ; " beak 

 grey, inclining to black towards the culmeu ; legs grey ; iris hazel " 

 (JSheUeif). Total length 7-25 inches, culmeu 0-7, wing 2-45, tail 3-8, 

 tarsus 0-9. 



Considerable difference in the amount of striping on the sides of 

 the body is shown in a series ; and the head is much more uniform 

 rufous in some specimens than in others. Young birds are like the 

 adult, but are much lighter in colour, being yellow, especially on 

 the hind neck and mantle ; the under surface is uniform yellowish 

 buff, with scarcely any dusky striping on the sides. 



Hab. Western part of the Cape Colony. 



a. Pull. St. South Africa. Sir A. Smith [C.]. 



b Ad sk South Africa. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



c. Ad. sk. South Africa (E. L. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



Lmjard). 



d. Ad. sk. South Africa ( C. J. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



Atiderssoti). 

 e (S ad. sk. Cape of Good Hope, Voyage of H.M.S. 



March 1847 {J. Mac- ' Rattlesnake.' 



gillivrarj). 

 f. cJ ad. sk. Knysna, Dec. 31, 1865 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



(C. J. Andersson). 

 ^. Ad.st. South Africa. Rev. J. PhiUipps [P.J. 



2. Sphenoeacus intermedius. 



Sphenoeacus africanus {non Gm.), auctt. e.r Col. Capensi oriental. 

 Sphenoeacus intermedius, Shelley, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 337. 



Adult male. Similar to S. africanus, but having the head clearer 

 rufous, the streaks on the sides of the body much narrower, and 

 the upper and under tail-coverts uniform. Total length 8-7 inches, 

 culmen Ow, wing 2-7, tail 4-3, tarsus 0-95. 



Hab. Eastern side of the Capo Colony. 



«. Ad. sk. KingwiUiamstown. Capt. H. Trevelyan [P.]. 



b. S ad.sk. Kingwilhamstown, June 1877 Capt. H. Trevelyan [P.]. 

 (C'. Newhy). 



3. Sphenoeacus natalensis. 



Sphenoeacus africanus {non Gm.), Gurney, Ihis, 18G3, p. 323; Ayres, 



Ibis, 1870, p. 425 ; id. 1880, p. 103. 

 Sphenoeacus natalensis, Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 337 ; Butkr, Fetlden, 8( 



Reid, Zoologist, 1882, p. 245. 



