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homy" (TF. T. Blanfonl). Total lengtli 8 inches, culmen 1-2, 

 wing 4'3, tail 2-4, tarsus 0'83 ; toes (without claws) — outer ante- 

 rior 0*7, outer posterior 0'65, inner anterior 0'5, inner posterior 0-3. 



Adah female. Has the forehead and crown black spotted with 

 white, the occiput alone being crimson ; the malar stripe black, the 

 feathers having greyish tips. Otherwise like the male. Total 

 length 7"3 inches, culmen I'l, wing 4'3 ; tail 2'5, tarsus 0-8. 



Young. In the first stage both sexes have the top of the head 

 uniform dusky black, with a scarlet band on the occiput, a few 

 minute rounded or stripe-like specks of white next appear ; the 

 female then assumes the large rounded spots of white on the fore- 

 head and crown, and these parts in the male lose the white specks 

 and become red. 



Uah. Southern Nubia, Abyssinia, and the Egyj^tian Soudan, into 

 the Somali Country, and South, probably almost to the Equator. 



rt. $ juv. sk. 

 b,c. S9- ad, ; 

 d. S ji-iv. sk. 

 e. 5 ad. sk. 



/. $ ad. sk. 

 r/, h. (S ad. sk. 

 i. ^ ad. sk. 

 k. 5 ad. sk. 

 I. 2 ad. sk. 



m. cS juv. sk. 



n. 2 ad. ; 0. 5 



imni. sk. 

 p. $ juv. sk. 

 q. j ad. sk. 



Nubia. 



Malti, Bogos Land {Esler). 



Ain, Bogos Land, July 6, 1868 



( W. Jesse). 

 Abyssinia. 

 Abyssinia {Esler). 

 Abyssinia. 

 Abyssinia. 

 Undel Wells, May 30, 1868. 



Undel Wells, May 27, 1868 



( W. Jesse). 

 Undel Wells, May 27, 1868 



( W. Jesse). 

 Anseba (Esler). 

 Anseba Valley, Aug. 1, 1868. 



r. 5 imm. sk. Waliko. 



s. 2 ad.sk. Bejook,Julyl8, 1868(TF. Jt'.sw). 



t. d ad. sk. Gonfallon, Aug. 7, 1868 ( W. 



Jesse) . 



u. c? ad. sk. Sboa {Antinori). 



V. 2 ad. sk. Butai, Sennar, Feb. ( T\ Midler), 



w. (S ad. sk. Kliartoum. 



•Y. 2 j"v. sk. Redjaf, Jan. 17, 1884. 



y. cj ad. ; z, a'. Lamu *. 



2 ad. sk. 



b'. 2 imm. sk. Useri River. 



c'. J imm. sk. Malimboa, June 1877. 



d'. 2 ad. sk. Tkariga, Ukamba, June 1877. 



Sharpe Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 



Salvin-Godman CoU. 



Sharpe Coll. 

 Shelley CoU. 

 India Museum. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



Sharpe CoU. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



Shellev Coll. 

 VV.T.' Blanford, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[C], 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



SheUey Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 Emin Pasha [P.]. 

 F. J. Jackson, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 H. C. V. Hunter, 



Esq. [P.l. 

 Dr. Hildebrandt [C.l. 

 Dr. Hildebrandt [C.]. 



* These specimens are cons2oicuously white about the head and neck, the 

 spots upon the head of the female being unusually large. 



