566 piciDiE. 



below the chest creamy white, the sides of the body, flanks, and 

 thighs more or less tinged with buff or rufescent buff ; the entire 

 breast is striped, the flanks and thighs are barred with black ; nnder 

 tail-coverts rufescent buff, with stripes and sagittate markings or 

 narrow bars of black ; under wing-coverts pale rufous. Total length 

 7 inches, culmcn 0"75, wing 3-55, tail 2-75, tarsus 0-78 : toes (with- 

 out claws) — outer anterior 0-62, outer posterior 0'G5, inner anterior 

 0'42, inner posterior 0"33. 



Adult female. Eesembles the adult male. Total length 7 inches, 

 culmen 0-7, wing 3-6, tail 2*75, tarsus 0'8. 



Hah. Eastern portion of Cape Colony, Transkei, Natal, and the 

 Transvaal, then probably ranges westward, and has been found as 

 far north as Landana* by M. Lucan. Dr. Tristram, in the Cata- 

 logue of his collection, records a specimen from Mombasa (6'o)'f7_r/f)t. 



ct. Ad. sk. South Africa. Eyton Coll. 



(Type of species.) 



b. Ad. sk. Maclean Town, S. Africa. Major Trevelj-an [P.]. 



c, rf. cJ ad. sk. Elands Post, S. Africa ( 7'. Shelley Coll." 



C. Atmore). 

 e, f. S ad. sk. Elands Post, April, May Tweeddale Coll. 



{T. C. Atmore). 

 g, h. S ad. ; /. Elands Post, JNIay, June Sharpe Coll. 



$ad. sk. [T. a Atmore). 



k, I. Ad. St. Natal. Purchased. 



wi.cJad.sk. Pine Town, Natal, June ( r. Shelley Coll. 



L. Ay res). 

 J?. (5 ad. sk. Valley of the Uuilass, Natal, Shelley Coll. 



Aug. (Gordffe). 



3. lynx pulchricollis. 



lynx pulchricolhs, Hartl. J6w, 1884, p. 28, pi. iii. ; id. Orn. Osfl.- 

 ' iiquat. Geb. Afr. 1887, pp. 308, 310. 



Adult male. Resembles /. peetoralis, but diff'ers in having the 

 chin and throat white barred with brownish black, like the malar 

 region, the rufous not ascending above the fore neck ; under surface 

 of the body whiter and more narrowly and clearly striped with 

 black, the sides of the body, flanks, and thighs faintly washed with 

 rufous and striped (not banded) with black ; under tail-coverts rich 

 rufous, with almost obsolete black shaft-stripes ; general colour 

 above browner ; the bill is longer, more slender, and blacker : " irides 

 pale brown ; bill dusky brown, lower mandible paler ; feet pale 

 brownish dusky '" {EminBeij). Total length '8 inches, culmen 0-75, 



* It would not surprise me to find that the present species extends up the 

 Congo to its head-waters ; and, if this be the case, it would prove a remarkable 

 fact that in a very restricted area in the Equatorial Provinces every species of 

 lynx should be found, even including our widely-spread /. turquilla. 



I' I am not aware that Gordge ever collected at Mombasa ; ]iossibly tliere may 

 be some mistake as to the localitv. 



