31. CKATEROPus. 4y3 



feathers; lower back and runii) rather more ashy olive-brown- 

 upper tail-covorts light brown, many of the shorter ones ashy • 

 wing-coverts rather more ashy brown than the back, with sniaU 

 spot^ on the tips of tlie feathers, less distinct on the greater series • 

 quills dark brown, externally edged with paler brown ; tail dark 

 brown, waved with dusky cross lines under certain lights • fore- 

 head slightly greyer than the crown, the margins to the feathers 

 being ashy grey ; lores and feathers below the fore part of the eye 

 ausjjy blackish ; ear-coverts brown, streaked with ashy • checks 

 ashy brown, the feathers with pointed tips of dull white, producing 

 a streaked appearance; throat and breast brown, very plainly varied 

 with white tips to the feathers, those streaks disaiiearing\n the 

 lower breast and abdomen, which are nearly uniform ashy brown 

 washed with pale ochraceous ; throat-feathers marked with"blackish 

 subteimmaJly as we 1 as streaked; under tail-coverts ashy brown, 

 tipped with dull white; under wing-coverts and axilkries pale 

 tawny buff ; qu.lls dark brown below, deeper tawny along the ed-e 

 of the inner web ; •' bill and feet black ; iris dark red " (T E Bucl- 

 M "hght red" (F. Oates), 01- " bright reddish yellow '' (T. Ayres). 

 Total length 10 inches, culmen 0-9, wing 4-35, tail 4-3, tarsus 1-95 



1A r -^""f^- ''^™'^'''' *^ ^^^ ™ale in colour. Total length 

 10 inches, culmen 0-95, wing 4-25, tail 4-2, tarsus 1-25. 



You)i>/ Much paler and more ochraceous brown than' the adults 

 with pale brown spots at the tips of the feathers: throat and 

 breast gieyish brown, with smaller white spots than in the adult 

 these spots with distinct subterminal markings of darker brown • 

 remainder ot under surface light ochraceous brown. 



I/ab. Eesident in .South Africa, from about 20° S. lat (Potchef 

 stroom and Kurrichaine) northwards to the Zambesi on the east 

 coast and Lamara Land on the west. 



«. ? ad. sk. Kurrichaine. Sir Andrew Smith [C.]. 



h Tnv ^l- « Af (Type oft-pecies.) 



^. Jm.sk. S. Africa. Sir A. Smith I C.l 



^ ^af :P P°t^-l^^*«troo^- ^ F.A.Barratt,^Esq.[C.]. 



foHi Transvaal (4y;rs). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. ^ 



e. ? ad.sk. Maiico river, Tiansvaal, W. E. & C CI Oates 

 . ,^ , Nov.l8,1873(i^. OffCes). Esqrs. rCl' 



f,ff- 6 2 ad- sk. Tali, October {F. Oates). W. E. & C.' G. Oates 



h. Ad. sk. Mctoria Falls, .Zambesi. rurcbased 



t. Ad. sk. Cunene river, June 25, R. B. Sharpe. Esq 



1809 {C. J. Amlersson). ^ ' ^' 



5. Crateropus plebeius. 



Ixos plebejus, CretzscJnn. in Jiiipp. Alias, Taf. 23 (182G). 

 Crateiopus plebeius, Gray, Gen. i?. i. p. 224(1840); Bp. Cmsp. i 



fio^;i\*^^ri-'"^ ' ^"■^' ^^'*"' 1^^'-^' P- '^18; Antin. Cat.dcscr. p. 44 

 (18t4); Uartm. J.f. O. 1804, p. 148: Gra,,, Hand-l. B i n •>S0 

 no. 4133 (1809); Finsch ^- Uartl Viiq. O.^tafr. p. 287 (1870)' 

 //«y. 0;«. .Y.O.-^/r. i. p.393(1870).' ' ' '("^'";. 



