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black on the sides of the fore neck ; lower breast and abdomen white ; 

 sides of body and flanks tawny buff, with some lines of black on the 

 latter ; thighs and under tail-coverts white, slightly marked with 

 tawny buff; under wing-coverts and axillaries white ; quills below 

 dusky, white along the inner edge. Total length 4'7 inches, culmen 

 0'4, wing 2135, tail 1-95, tarsus 0"6. 



The differences between the winter and summer plumages of the 

 female seem to me to be infinitesimal, and to consist principally in 

 the more tawny tinge of the plumage in the winter season. 



The adult male in winter plumage is scarcely distinguishable from 

 the female, but is slightly larger (wing 29 inches) and blacker on the 

 wings ; the throat also is whiter. 



Young. Entirely different from the adults. Uniform brown above ; 

 wing-coverts rather more reddish brown than the back ; bastard- 

 wing and primary-coverts uniform dusky brown ; greater coverts 

 and quills dusky brown, edged externally with reddish brown, lighter 

 on the primaries ; upper tail-coverts like the back ; tail-feathers 

 dusky brown, edged with reddish brown, the outer feathers ashy 

 whitish on their inner webs ; head like the back : lores ashy whitish ; 

 sides of face, ear-coverts, cheeks, and throat ashy white ; remainder 

 of under surface isabelline, browner on the sides of the chest, sides 

 of body, flanks, and thighs ; under tail-coverts isabelline ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries white, washed with isabelline ; quills 

 ashy brown below, whitish along the inner web ; bill black. 



Specimens moulting from this uniform plumage into the varie- 

 gated plumage of the adults are in the collection . 



Hah. From Senegambia along the whole western coast to Damara 

 and Great J^amaqua Land, and extending along the Congo to the 

 White Nile district. Throughout jN'orth-eastern Africa as high as 

 17° iN". lat. ; also throughout the whole of the Zanzibar and ^Xlasai 

 countries as far inland as Lake Tanganyika, and south to Mozambique 

 and the Zambesi : thence south into the eastern Capo Colonj' as 

 far west as the Knysna district. It probably occurs in all the inter- 

 vening countries of Africa. 



a. Var. mel. sk. 



b. 1mm. sk. 



c. Jut. sk. 



d-g. (S ad. ; h. $ 

 ad. ; i-l. Juv. sk. 

 m. Imm. sk. 

 ti, o. Iliem. sk. 

 2). c? id. sk. 

 q. r? ad. sk. 

 r. c? ad. sk. 

 s, t, u. Ad. sk. 



V. Ad. sk. 



w,x. S fid. sk. 



y. cS ad. sk. 



3. S ad. ; a'. Juv. 



sk. 

 h' . S ad. sk. 



[Died in captivity.] 



Africa. 



Camboro, Gambia {A. Marche). 



Gambia. 



Gambia (Col. Strachan). 



Gambia (L. Laf/laize). 



Sierra Leone (Dr. Clark). 



Sierra Leone. 



Elmina, April (K F. Blissett). 



Cape Coast Castle, Feb. & 

 March (7: E. Buckley). 



Cape Coast Castle, March 8 

 ( G. E. S.). 



Cape Coast Castle. 



Denkera (Governor Ussher). 



River Yolta, Aug. 1870 (Go- 

 vernor Ussher). 



River Volta (Governor Ussher.) 



Sharpe Coll. 



Old Coll. 



M. A. Bouvier [P.]. 



Sharpe Coll. 



Sharpe Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Shellev Coll. 

 Shelle> Coll. 



Shelley Coll. 



Sharpe Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 



Shellev Coll. 



