7. cn^Tors. 349 



tlic uiuler tail-coverts blackish, broadly margined -with orange ; 

 " iris bright red" {2\ C. Atmore). Total length 8-75 inches, cul- 

 men 0-95, wing 3"5, tail 3-G, tarsus 1-6. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in exactly the same way as 

 the same sex in C. frenaius diifers from the male of the latter 

 species, in wanting the black, &c. Total length 8-5 inches, cul- 

 men 0*9, wing 3-25, tail 3'5, tarsus 1'55. 



Hah. llepreseuts the foregoing species in the same eastern por- 

 tions of the Cape colony, and it is said to have been procured in 

 Natal. 



a, 6. (? 5 ad. st. South Africa. Purchased. 



c, (I- S $ ad. sk. Stortnberg, Bm'gliersdorp R. B. Sbarpe, E.sq. 



{T. C. Atmore). 

 e. S ad. sk. Port Natal {ex coll. T. C. R. B. Sbarpe, Esq. 



E>/fon). 



3. Chaetops pycnopygius. 



Sphenoeacus pvcnopvgius, Stn'ckl. Sf Sclater, Contr. Orn. 1852, 



p. 148 ; Trii't. Ibis, 1870, p. 497. 

 Drymoica anchiette, Bocar/e, Jorn. Lkh. 18G8, p. 41; Gray, llaml-l. 



B. i. p. 200, no. 2798 (1809). 

 Megalurus pycnopygius, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 206, no. 2912 (1869). 

 Chffitops gravi, Sharpc, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 164, pi. 14 ; Gray, Haml-l. 



B. i. p. 264, no. 3865 (18(19). 

 Cbfetops pycnopj'gius, &harpe. Cat. Afr. B. p. 25 (1871) ; Gurney 



in Anderss. B. I)am. Ld. p. 117 (1872) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard B. i>. 



Afr. p. 218 (1875) ; Bocaye, Orn. Angola, p. 256 (1877). 



Adult (type of CJuetops grayi, Sharpe). General colour above 

 brown, lighter on the head, the whole broadly streaked with dark 

 brown down the centre of tlie feathers ; lower back, rump, and 

 iippcr tail-coverts uniform rufous ; wing-coverts like the back, the 

 outer ones edged with whity brown; primary-coverts dusky brown, 

 with narrow lighter brown margins ; quilLs dark brown, edged with 

 ligliter brown, somewhat rufescent near the base of the primaries ; 

 tail-feathers blackish brown, the outer feathers tipped with a lighter 

 brown bar ; a narrow but distinct eyebrow and the eyelid white ; 

 lores, feathers below the eye, and a streak above the ear-coverts 

 black ; the car-covcrts brown with white shaft-streaks ; cheeks white, 

 separated from the throat by a narrow malar streak of black ; throat 

 and fore neck as well as the chest white, the sides thicldy spotted 

 with triangular black marks arranged for the most part in stripes ; 

 centre of breast buffy whitish, the sides of the body, flanks, and 

 under tail-coverts liglit rufous ; thighs brown ; axillaries rufous 

 like the breast ; wing-coverts brown, edged with whity brown ; 

 " upper mandible dark horn-colour, the lower livid lead-colour ; 

 tarsi pale brown, the toes a shade or two darker ; under the eye a 

 naked space ; iris dark brown" (C. J. Andersson). Total length 

 G-75 inches, culmen Q-So, wing 2 8, tail 3, tarsus 0'S5. 



According to Prof. J3arboza du Bocage the sexes are alike. 



