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18. CALAMONASTES. 



Tarsus of Calamonastcs fasciolafus, to show scutellations. 

 Range. South Africa, extending into Central Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Wing-coverts tipped with buffy white ; upper 



surface fulvous brown, clearer and more tawny 



on the rump and upper tail-coverts fasciolatus, p. 133. 



h. Wing-coverts uniform, witliout any pale tips ; 



upper surface uniform dull ashy brown tindosus, p. 134. 



1. Calamonastes fasciolatus. 



Drymoica fasciolata. Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr., Aves, pi. exi. fig. 2 



(1847) ; £p. Consj). i. p. 283 (1850) ; Lal/ard, B. S. Afr. p. 86, 



no. 148 (1867) ; Graij, Hand-l. B. i. p. 198, no. 2746 (1869) ; 



Sharpe, Cut. Afr. B. p. 31, no. 296 (1871) ; Buckley, Ibis, 1874, 



p. 373. 

 Cossypha fasciiventris, Sundev. (Efv. K. Vet.-Akad. Fork. Stockh. 



1850, p. 101, no. 19. 

 Aedon fasciolata. Gurnet/, Ibis, 1871, p. 152 ; id. in Anderss. B. Dam. 



Ld. p. 90, no. 113 (1872). 

 Cisticola fasciolata, Sharpe, ed. Luyard B. S. Afr. p. 273 (1876) ; 



Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 254. 



Adult. Above warm brown, rather rufescent, the rump and 

 upper tail-coverts rather lighter and more tawny rufous ; wings 

 brown, the coverts edged with fulvous-brown, and all tipped with 

 white or fulvous-white ; quills brown, externally edged with rufous- 

 brown, the innermost secondaries margined with whitish at the tip ; 

 tail brown, the feathers edged with rufous-brown and all tipped 

 with fulvous, before which the colour darkens, but does not form a 

 subterminal band; lores and sides of face greyish white, waved 

 with transverse bars of blackish brown ; the ear-coverts washed with 

 brown, with whitish shaft-stripes ; under surface of body dull 

 white, the sides bright fulvous, deeper and more tawny on the 

 thighs and under tail-coverts; the throat very slightly, but the 

 chest and sides of the body distinctly crossed with zigzag or 

 V-shaped bars of dark brown ; under wing-coverts light buff, the 

 lower surface of the quills ashy brown, edged with pale rufous 

 along the inner web ; " upper mandiljle dark liver-brown, the lower 

 edge and the under mandible dark blui.sh or purple ; legs pale flesh- 

 colour, toes the same, but a trifle darker ; iris yellowish brown "' 

 {AncJersson). 



