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reddish brown, tlie abdomen isabelline ; thighs dull ashj- brown ; 

 under tail-coverts light reddish brown, washed with dull ashy brown 

 at the ends; under wing-coverts and axillaries isabelline buff; 

 quills below dusky, ashy isabelline along the inuer web : " bill 

 black; legs grey; iris brown " {T. L. A>/res). 



Eoth sexes appear to be alike in plumage when young, and they 

 apparently gain the full plumage by a direct moult. Mr. T. L. 

 Aj'res has sent young specimens in full moult procured in April 

 and July, 



Hab. South Africa from Natal to the Zambesi, extending across 

 to South-west Africa and the Congo, where it meets with the allied 

 S. cucullata. It likewise extends all over Eastern Africa to the 

 Equatorial Lake regions, as far as Western Abyssinia. Introduced 

 to the Comoro Islands. 



a. Ad. sk. 



Newcasile, Natal (Cw^^. Savik 



Held). 

 Durban, Natal {(fordge). 



Durban, Nov. {T. L. Ayres). 



Piuetown, Natal, Feb. -April, 



July, Oct. (y. L. Ayres). 

 Mozambique, March, April. 



Shupanga, Shire River, April 



{Sir J. Kirk). 

 Zambesi Kiver (Dr. Meller). 

 Zanzibar, Dec. {Von der 



Decken). 

 Zanzibar {Sir J. Kirk). 

 Pangaui lliver {Sir J. Kirk). 

 Mombasa {Eev. J. Wakefield). 



N'dura, Teita, Aug. 



Ambucarra, Slioa {Ragazzi). 



Angola {J. J. Montciru). 



Angola. 



Quilombo, Angola, July {A. 



Heath). 

 Kabinda, R. Congo, Aug. 



Joanna Island {Sir J. Kirk). 

 Great Comoro Island (*'(> J. 

 Kirk). 



SheUey Coll. 



Shelley Coll. 



Shelley Coll. 



Shelley Coll. 



Dr. Gueinzius [C.]. 



Livingstone Exped. 



Tweedd:ile Coll. 

 Sbarpe Coll. 



Sharpe Coll. 



Shelley Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 



• H.C.V. Hunter, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 Monteiro Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 



Commander 



ling [P.]. 

 Shellev Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 



Sper- 



7. Spermestes nana. 



Ilalalavie, Flacnurt, Hist. Madag. p. 166 (16G1). 



Le Petit Marteau, Sganziri, Mem. Soc. Mus. (THist. Kat. Strasb. 



1840, p. 28. 

 Pyrrlmla nana. Pucker. Rev. Zool. 1845, p. 52 ; id. Mag. de Zool. 



pi. Iviii. (1845} ; Hartl. Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) ii. p. 390 (1848). 

 Spermestes nana, i?;>. Consp. i. p. 454 (1850) ; Hartl. J. f. O. 18C0, 



p. 105; id. Faune Madag. p. 56 (1861); <S'. Rock ^- E. Netvt. 



Ibis, 1862, p. 275 ; Sol. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 163 ; K. Nnvt. Ibis, 



