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cheeks and sides of neck white, extending backwards round the 

 hind neck, so as to form a nearly complete collar ; under surface 

 of body white, with two bands, one across the breast very broad, 

 narrowing towards the centre, and an inferior narrower band across 

 the lower breast ; flanks also mottled with black spots ; upper 

 wing-coverts, axillaries, and inner lining of quills white : " bill and 

 legs black; iris dark brown" (6r. E. Shelley). Total length lOo 

 inches, culmcn 2-5, wing 5-7, tail 3'1, tarsus 0-35. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but wanting the second, 

 inferior, pectoral band ; the upper pectoral band also being incom- 

 plete, and represented by two large black patches, one on each side 

 of the upper breast. Total length 10-5 inches, culmen 2-55, wing 

 5'3, tail 3, tarsus 0*3o. 



Breeding birds are always much darker than those killed at other 

 seasons of the year, by reason of the wearing away of the white 

 margins to the feathers. 



Young birds are easily distinguisiied by their shorter bills, greyish- 

 black pectoral bands, and by having the feathers of the lower 

 throat and fore neck edged with dusky blackish. 



Hah. The Eastern countries of the Mediterranean, eastward to the 

 Persian Gulf. The whole of Africa. 



a-d. Ad. sk. 

 e. Imm. sk. 



/,(/. S2 ad. sk. 



h, i. Ad. sk. 

 k. Ad.sk. 

 /, m. 2 ad. sk. 

 71. Ad. sk. 

 o. Ad. sk. 

 p. Ad. sk. 



q. Ad. sk. 

 r. Ad. sk. 

 s. 5 ad. ; t, u, v. 



(S juv.sk. 

 w. cJ ad. sk. 



X. 2 ad. sk. 

 y,z. 2 ad. etjuv. 



sk. 

 a', c? ad. sk. 



b'. Ad.sk. 

 c', d'. Ad. sk. 



e'. cj ad. sk. 



f',ff'- S $ad. sk. 

 A'. S ad. sk. 



i', k',l'. Ad. sk. 



m'. Ad. sli. 



River Gambia {Skarpe Coll.). 



Bathurst {Qiwi). 



Gold Coast, Sept. 23 {Sm- 



teiiis). 

 Gold Coast. 



Naqua River {H. T. Ussher). 

 Accra, May (J. Smith). 

 Lagos. 



River Niger {Dr. Baikie). 

 Camaroons Mts., Feb. 4 [A. 



Crossley). 

 Gaboon (Dn Chaillu). 

 Augola {Hamilton). 

 Gahmgo, Angola, Aug, Sept. 



{Sala). 

 Great Namaqua - Land, May 



(C. J. Andersso7i). 

 Cape Colony {E. L. Lnyard). 

 Knysna, Dec, Jan. (C. /. A.). 



Kr:onstad, Orange Free State, 



Jan. {F. Symonds). 

 Durban, Natal {Gordye). 

 Upper Umlaas River 



{Gordye). 

 Transvaal {T. Ay res). 



Transvaal {T. Ayres). 



High Veldt, Transvaal, Dec. 7 



(F. Oates). 

 Makalaka Country (Dr. Brnd- 



shaw). 

 Zambesi {Dr. M filler). 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 



Sbellev Coll. 

 RhelleV Coll. 

 Sliellev Coll. 

 Sir A.' Moloney [P.]. 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 Sharpe Cull. 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 Sharpe Cull. 



Sharpe Coll. 



Sharpe Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 



Gurney Coll. 



Shelley Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 



A. Foresman, Esq. 



Sharpe Coll. 



W. E. & C. G. Oates, 



Esqrs. [P.l. 

 Shelley Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



