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Yoking male, llesemblcs the adult male, but. is duller in colour ; 

 the shafts of the quills arc ncarlj- white ; the barring on the tail 

 more distinct, and the duskj- bars on the linderparts narrower: 

 " iris pinkish brown " {on lahd). 



Adult female. Has no red upon the posterior half of the crown 

 nor on the occiput, these parts being black, the forehead and crown 

 spotted with white. Total length 8-5 inches, culmen 1-4, wing 5*4, 

 tail 2-7, tarsus 0-75. 



Ifab. Southern and Central Africa ; on the east, from Swazi-Land 

 and the Transvaal north to Zanzibar and probablj* into Masai-Land, 

 and on the west, from Damara-Land north into Angola as far as 

 Galungo. 



a. 2 ad. sk. 



6, c. cJ ad. sk. 



d, e. (S 2 ^d. sk. 

 /. 2 ad. sk. 



ff, h. cJ 2 ad. sk. 



i. S ad. sk. 



Tc. 2 ad. sk. 

 I, m. (S 2 ad. sk. 



n. (S ad. sk. 



0, p. (S 2 ad. sk. 



q. cj ad. sk. 



r. (S ad. sk. 



s. 5 iuam. sk. 



t. 2 ad. sk. 



u. 2 ad. sk. 



Zambesi {Dr. Miller). 

 Ugop'o, Zambesi {Sir J. 



Kirk). 

 Tette, Zambesi. 

 MakaLika, Zambesi {Dr. 



Bradshmv). 

 Ilamaqueban River, July 



{F. Gates). 

 Motlontse River, nr. Tati, 



Aug. (F. Oates). 

 Transvaal {Ayi-es). 

 Transvaal, July {T. E. 



Buckley). 

 Swazi-Laod, July {T. E. 



Buckley ). 

 Oudonga, Damara-Land, Jan. 



( C. J. Andersson). 

 Otjimbiuque, March (C. J. 



Anderssun). 

 River Okavango, Damara- 

 Land, May {C.J.Andersso7i). 

 Ombongo,Damara-Laud,J uly 



{C. J. Andersson). 

 Rio Chimba, Benguella 



{Anchieta). 

 Loanda, Sept. 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 



Livingstone E.xped. 

 Shelley Coll. 



C. G. & VV. E. Oates, 



Esqrs. [P.]. 

 C. G. & W. E. Oates, 



Esqrs. [P.]. 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 



Shelley Coll. 



Sharpe Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



Shelley Coll. 



Sharpe Coll. 



J. J. Monteiro, Esq. 



[C.]. 



2. Tliripias schoensis. 



Picas (Dendrobates) schoQWf'if,, Riipp. Mus. Sencken. iii. p. 124 (1842) ; 



Finseh if Hartl. Voy. Ostafr. p. 509 (1870). 

 Dendrobates schoeusis, Bi'ipp. Sy.-f. Uebers. 1845, p. 88, pi. xxxiii. ; 



Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. -i'-'u (1^4S)); Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 124 



(1850) ; Heuyl. Syst. Uebers. 1856, p. 47. 

 Dendropicos schoensis, Mcdh. 3Iem. Acad. Metz, 1849, p. 339. 

 Deudropicus schoensis, Bp. Consp. Voliwr. Zyyod. p. 9 (1854) ; Malh. 



Ficida, i. p. 195, pi. xlii. tig. 8 (1861) ; Grai/, List Field,. Brit. 



Mus.^. 70 (1868); id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. lUO,'no. 8665 (1870); 



Dubois, Bull. Mus. R. eVHist. Nat. Bely. 1886, p. 147. 

 Canipetliera schoensis, Beichenb, Scatts. Ficince, p. 422, pi. dclxxii. 



figs. 4447-4448(1854). 

 Thripias schoensis, Cab. S)- Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 121 (1863). 



