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hind neck, mantle, and upper back having a scaly appearance, being 

 edged with pale oclireous or sandy buff, before which is a subterminal 

 shade of black ; rump and upper tail-coverts pale brown, with 

 whitish margins, more distinct on the latter ; quills brown, edged 

 with paler brown, inclining to whity brown on the greater coverts 

 and inner secondaries ; tail-feathers blackish, brown externally and 

 at the ends, with a white spot near the tip of the inner web ; centre 

 tail-feathers light brown ; head uniform drab-brown ; eyelid white : 

 lores, feathers in front of the eye, fore part of cheeks and chin, and 

 upper throat black ; remainder of sides of face, ear-coverts, hinder 

 cheeks, and under surface of body from the middle of the throat 

 downwards pale drab-brown, the sides of the neck mottled with 

 scaly black mai'kings like the back ; on the sides of the body a patch 

 of scaly feathers, black, with sandy-white margins ; axillaries and 

 under wing-coverts like the breast : " bill pale livid horn-colour ; 

 legs and toes light brownish horn-colour ; iris dark brown " (C. J. 

 Andersson). Total length 5"4 inches, culmen 0"6, wing 2-9, tail 1*7, 

 tarsus 0-8. 



Young. Similar to the adults, but more distinctly mottled above 

 with sandy-brown edges to the feathers ; the head also minutely 

 spotted with black ; the patch of scaly feathers on the side of the 

 body not so distinctly pronounced. 



Hab. Southern Africa from tiie interior districts to the Transvaal 

 and north of the Diamond Fields to Damara-Land, not occurring 

 south of the Orange River. 



b. Ad.etjuv.sk. Latakoo. 



e. cJ ad. sk. 



d. S ad. sk. 



e. J jav. sk. 



f. Juv. sk. 



Transvaal {T. Ay res). 

 Transvaal (T. Ayres). 

 Damara-Land. 

 Damara-Land (C. J. A.). 



Sir A. Smith [C.]. 



(Types of P. lepidus.) 

 Sliai-pe Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 C. J. Andersson [C.]. 

 Sharpe Coll. 



2. PhilaBterus arnaudi. 



Nigrita arnaudi, Bp. Consp. i. p. 444 (1850, ex Pucher. MSS. in 

 Mus. Paris); Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 131, note (1857); Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. ii. p. 46, no. 6649(1870); Hevgl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. 

 i. p. 541, Taf. XX. (1870) ; Hartl. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, vii. 

 p. 104 (1881) ; Fischer, Zeitschr. yes. Orn. i. p. 329 (1884) ; id. 

 J.f. O. 1885, p. 134; Hartl. J.f. 6. 1887, p. 310. 



Fringllla (PjTgita) molybdocepliala, Hevyl. Syst. Uebers. p. 41 

 (1856). 



Philseterus arnaudi, Shelley, Ibis, 1886, p. 308. 



Wing of Philaicrtis arnaudi, to show bastard primary. 



Adult male. General colour above light drab-brown ; lesser wing- 

 coverts dark ashy with dusky margins ; median and greater coverts 



