4. CHERS0PHILTT9. 525 



Adult male. Above rufous fawn-colour, the margins of the dorsal 

 plumes paler and more fulvescent, with broad centres of blackish 

 browu ; the head sliglitly crested and coloured like the back, the 

 hind neck more greyish and somewhat separating the head from 

 the back by an indistinct collar ; wing-coverts coloured like the 

 back, dark brown, with broad fulvescent margins, causing a some- 

 what mealy appearance ; quills browu margined with fulvous fawn- 

 colour, very broad on the secondaries and paler in the outer edges ; 

 lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts bright rufous fawn-colour 

 with narrow blacldsh shaft-lines, broader on the last-named ; tail- 

 feathers brown, bordered with fulvous, a little broader on tho 

 outermost feather and more rufous on centre ones, which are shaded 

 with ashy ; lores and a distinct eyebrow fulvous white, tinged with 

 fawn ; ear-coverts rufous fawn, inclining to dark brown on their 

 upper margin ; cheeks fulvous white, with a few spots of dark 

 brown ; under surface of body isabelline buff, the throat unspotted ; 

 the flanks and chest washed with fawn-colour, the latter marked 

 with a good many triangular spots of dark brown ; under wing- 

 coverts light fawn-colour, the outermost spotted with brown, the 

 greater series ashy brown like the inner lining of the wing, which 

 is almost entirely of the latter colour, with a tinge of isabelline on 

 the inner web : bill horn-brown, inclining to yellowish horn-colour 

 at base. 'J'otal length 6-8 inches, culmen 0'8, wing 4, tail 3-1, 

 tarsus 1-1. 



Ifab. Interior of the Cape Colony to the Transvaal. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Interior of Cape Colony. Sir A. Smith [C.]. 



c. (S ad. sk. Transvaal, April 16 (/. Wahl- Sharpe Cull. 



berg). 



4. CHERSOPHILUS. 



Certliilauda, pt., auct. recent. 



Wing of Chersophilus duponti, to show short first primary. 

 Range. Algeria, Southern Spain, and Portugal. 



Kei/ to the Species. 



a. Larger ; wing 4'0 inclie? : general colour sandy 

 brown, the upper tai -coverts like the rump ; 

 throat and chest sparsely streaked with brown ; 

 scarcely any streaks on the flanks duponti, p. 526. 



