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white at base, increasing in extent towards the outer ones, which 

 have onl}' the terminal third black, these feathers having also a 

 narrow tip of pale buff to the inner web, the outennost feather 

 white along the outer web ; lores and a broad eyebrow white ; sides 

 of face and ear-coverts blackish brown, washed with golden brown ; 

 chin and sides of throat white, extending backwards to the sides of 

 the neck ; throat and under surface of body orange-rufous, the centre 

 of the breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts buff}' whitish, deep- 

 ening in colour on the latter ; under wing-coverts ashy white, with 

 bases of duU grey, the greater series entirely of the latter colour ; 

 axillaries pale orange-buff, dark brown towards the base of the inner 

 web ; quills dull brown below, ashy fulvous along the edge of the 

 inner web ; bill and legs black ; iris dark brown. Total length 4'8 

 inches, culmen O'-io, wing 3'1, tail 1"S5, tarsus 1. 



Adult femah in hreeding-plumage. Differs from the male in beuig 

 more fulvous above, the dark centres to the feathers less distinctly 

 indicated, and all the dorsal plumes slightly tipped with a narrow 

 fulvous edging ; upper tail-coverts as in the male, but instead of a 

 subterminal spade-shaped spot there is only a bar ; lores and eye- 

 brow fulvous, not so distinct as in the male ; round the eye a ring 

 of sandy-buff plumes ; ear-coverts nifous, with narrow shaft-lines 

 of buffy white ; cheeks huffy wdiite, with a spot of dark brown just 

 below the ear-coverts : under surface of body as in the male, but 

 very much paler, as also the under wing-coverts and axillaries ; 

 wing browner than in the male, the white patch less distinct and 

 formed only by whitish edges and tips to the feathers : primary - 

 coverts whitish at base, forming a small speculum ; tail as in the 

 male, but the feathers more broadly edged with dull fulvous at 

 the tips. Total length 5 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 3, tail 2-08, 

 tarsus O'So. 



Young male. Like the old female, and with pale whitish tips to 

 the feathers of the upper surface ; on the fore neck are several spots 

 of blackish browii. 



Hah. Europe, migrating in winter to Senegambia, the Gold Coast, 

 and to North-eastern Africa. 



Mr. J. Baker [C.]. 

 Mr. Quartermaine [C.]. 

 Dr. (Iiiuther [P.l. 

 Dr. Giiuther [P.l. 

 R.B. Sharpe,Esq.[P.]. 

 Brussels Museiun [P-l- 

 Brussels Museum [P.]. 

 Ileury Seebohm, Esq. 



[P.-]. 

 Howard Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. _ 

 Canon Tristram [C.]. 

 Purchased. 

 W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[C.]. 



