398 PLOCEID^. 



Habropyga erytlironota, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 169, note (1850) ; 

 Fischer, Zeitschr. (jcs. Orn. i. p. 324 (1884) ; ul. J. f. O. 1885, 

 p. 135. 



Adult male. General colour above ashy grey, ■with a vinous or 

 crimson tinge and crossed with delicate dusky bars, a little more 

 distinct on the scapulars ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 deep crimson ; wing-coverts like the back, the cross bars more 

 distinct on the median and greater coverts ; bastard-wing and pri- 

 marj'- coverts uniform dusky brown ; quills dusky brown, with 

 slightly indicated bars of ashy and black near the base, these bars 

 very distinct on the inner secondaries, which are like the greater 

 coverts ; tail-feathers entirely black, the outer ones ashy towards 

 the ends, with dusky bars ; crown of head ashy grey, the cross 

 vermiculations very delicate and indistiuct ; forehead slightly more 

 hoary ; lores, eyebrow, sides of face, ear-coverts, and cheeks black, 

 with a silvei'y-grey shade on the hinder cheeks, extending behind 

 the ear-coverts ; chin black ; throat, sides of neck, and under 

 surface of body ashy grey, slightly vermiculated with dusky cross 

 bars and washed with crimson, becoming more uniform deep 

 crimson on the breast : abdomen blackish ; sides of body ashy 

 brown with dusky cross bars ; flanks crimson with dusky bars ; 

 thighs and under tail-coverts black ; imder wing-coverts and 

 axillaries ashy, barred with dusky ; quills below dusky, ashy along 

 the inner edge : " bill black, except near the head, where it is 

 whitish blue; feet and toes black; iris wine-coloured red" {C.J. 

 Andersson). Total length 4-3 inches, ciilmen 0"35, wing 2'1, 

 tail 2'35, tarsus O'oo. 



Adult female. jN'ot to be distinguished from the male. Total 

 length 4-7 inches, culmen 0"35, wing 2'15, tail 2'2, tarsus 0-55. 



Young. Browner than the adults, with less distinct crimson shade 

 above and below ; rump duller crimson. 



Huh. Interior of South Africa to the Matabele country on the 

 east and to Damara-Land on the west. It is said to extend as far 

 as the Kilimanjaro district by Dr. Fischer. 



a, ^- d 2 ''^^- ^^- Transvaal (T. Ai/res). Sbarpe Coll. 



c, d. (S ad. sk. Tati, Matabele-Land, Oct. W. E. & C. G. Gates, 



Ls74 (F. Oates). Esqrs. [P.]. 



e. d ad. sk. Eustenberg, Jaly IG ( W. Shelley Coll. 



Lucas). 



f, ff. Ad. sk. Makalaka Country (Dr. Brad- Shelley CoU. 



sham), 

 h-m. Ad. et juv. Uamara-Land, June, July, Sbarpe Coll. 



sk. Aug. (C. J. Andersson). 



n. Ad. sk. Otjimbinque, June 9, 18G6 Forbes Coll. 



(C. J. A.). 

 0. c? ad. sk. Omaruru, Damara-Land, Nov. Shelley Coll. 



11 (A. Ericson). 

 }). (S ad. sk. Matalko, Damara-Land, July Shelley Coll. 



\\[C.J.A.). 

 q. Ad. St. Scuth Africa. Sir A Smith [C.]. 



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