408 PLOCTEID^. 



in Anderss. B. Dam.-Ld. p. 177 (1872) ; Buckley, Ibis, 1874, 

 p. 380; Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 321 (1877-81) ; Sharpe in Oates' 

 Matahele-Land, App. B, p. 319 (1881) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 351 ; 

 Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. pp. 4ol, 848 (1884) ; Shelley, 

 Ibis, 1887, p. 3. 



Adult male. General colour above ashy brown from the hinder 

 crown to tlie upper tail-coverts ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; 

 median and greater coverts as well as the bastard-wing black, 

 broadly edged with white ; primary-coverts and quills dusky brown, 

 externally edged with ashy brown, the secondaries broadly edged 

 with white like the greater coverts ; tail-feathers black, broadly 

 edged with white ; crown of head scaly, the feathers black with 

 ashy-brown edges, those of the forehead with hoary- white margins ; 

 lores and feathers round eye black ; sides of face and ear-coverts 

 pale ashy brown like the sides of the neck ; cheeks white, forming 

 a moustache ; throat white ; chin and a broad line on each side of 

 throat black ; fore neck and breast isabelline, the abdomen a little 

 whiter; sides of body and flanks isabelline ; thighs and under tail- 

 coverts white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale ashy ; quills 

 below dusky, ashy isabelline along the inner edge : " bill pink, darker 

 on the culmen and at the tip; feet pale brown; iris red" (T. 

 Ay res). Total length 4*3 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 2-35, tail 1-55, 

 tarsus 0"6. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour. Total length 4 

 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 2-2, tail 1'45, tarsus 0*6. 



Young. Like the adults, but having the white edges to the quills 

 and tail-feathers isabelline ; the head like the back, streaked with 

 dusky brown ; the white cheeks and the black streaks on the sides 

 of the throat indistinctly indicated. 



Hah. South Africa, from the Orange-River district to Beiiguela 

 on the west, and to Matabele-Land on the east. 



a. Ad. sk. Latakoo. Sir A. Smith [C.]. (Type 



of species. ) 

 h. Ad. sk. Eland's Post, S.E. Africa Sharpe Coll. 



{T. C. At more). 

 e. c? ad. sk. Transvaal ( W. Lucas). Shelley Coll. 



d. J ad. sk. Transvaal ( T. Ayres). Sharpe Coll. 



e,f. c^ ad. sk. Rusteuberg, Jan. o (T. Shelley Coll. 



Ayres) . 

 q. S ad. sk. Meathly River, Baman- Shelley Coll. 



g-vvato, Oct. 24 ( T. E. 



Buckley), 

 h. J ad. sk. Matahele-Land, Sept. 29 Shelley Coll. 



(T. E. B.). 

 i. ? ad. sk. Semokwe River, Sept. 30 W. E & C. G. Oates, 



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



k. .Juv.sk. Otjimbinque, Damava-Land, Sharpe Coll. 



Jure 4 (C. J. Andcrsson). 

 I. .\d. sk. S. Beii"-nela. Monteir.) Coll. 



