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AtAUDID.E. 



Adult male in lu'mter plumage. Above ashy, mottled with dark 

 brown centres to the feathers, some of the dorsal plumes washed 

 with sandy colour ; crown of head bri^jht chestnut, forming a cap, 

 some of the feathers slightly margined with fulvous ; hind neck 

 decidedly ashy, paler than the back, and forming a kind of collar ; 

 wing-coverts ashy brown, with broad fawn-coloured margins, form- 

 ing a conspicuous shoulder-patch ; the greater and primary-coverts 

 ashy brown, with ashy-fulvous edgings ; quills dark brown, mar- 

 gined with ashy fulvous, inclining to rufous near the base of the 

 feathers ; the outer primary with a broad external margin of creamy 

 white ; upper tail-coverts rufous fawn-colour, the longest shaded 

 with brown down the middle ; tail-feathers dark brown, the penul- 

 timate and outer feather edged with white, occupying the whole 

 external web of the latter ; the two central tail-feathers mar- 

 gined with ashy brown ; small frontal plumes whitish ; lores and 

 a distinct eyebrow white, as also the feathers under the eye and 

 cheeks, the latter slightly spotted with brown ; ear-coverts pale 

 rufous ; sides of neck clear ashy grey ; throat white ; rest of under 

 surface also white : the middle of the breast ashy fulvous ; the sides 

 of the ujjper breast bright chestnut, forming a patch on both sides ; 

 sides of body inclining to ashy fulvous ; under wing-coverts pale 

 ashy grey ; the edge of the wing fulvous white ; inner lining of 

 wing ashy brown, the inner webs of the quills slightly rufescent 

 towards the base : " bill black, the base brown ; legs dark brown ; 

 iris dark hazel " ( T. E. BucHci/). Total length 6-2 inches, culmen 

 0-55, wing 3-9, tail 2-7, tarsus 0-S5. 



Adult female. Coloured like the male. Total length 6-2 inches, 

 culmen 0-5, wing 3-05, tail 2-6, tarsus 0-85. 



Bab. South Africa. 



«. Ad. sk. Cape Colony (Butler). Shelley Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. Cape Colony. Sir A.' Smith [C.]. 



c, d. Ad. sk. Cape Town, July. C. J. Andersson [C.]. 

 e,f. Ad. sk. Colesberg. A. F. Ortlepp [C.]. 

 g. 2 ad. sk. Eland's Post (T. C. Atmore). Shelley Coll. 



h. Juv. sk. Giahamstown (U. L. Layard). Sharpe Coll. 



i, k. $ ad. ; /, British Katfraria, Sept., Oct. Shelley Coll. 



m. Juv. sk. {F. A. Barratt). 



n. Ad. sk. Kingwilliamstowu. MajorTrevelyan[P.]. 



0,;). c5' $ad. sk. Newcastle, Natal, June, Jidy Shelley Coll. 



{E. A. Butler). 

 q. d ad. sk. Pietermaritzburg, May 2 {F. W. E. & C. G. Gates, 



Oates). Esqrs. [P.]. 



r,s. (S; *,■>(■ Natal, May, June (T. E. Shelley Coll. 



5 ad. sk. Biicklei/)'. 



V, u\ Ad. sk. Grange Free State, May 30 Sharpe Coll. 



( JF. Lucas). 

 ■X, y. i 2 ad. sk. Transvaal ( T. Ay res). Shai-pe Coll. 



s. cJ ad. sk. Elephant River, Little Nama- Sharpe Coll. 



qua-Land, Aug. 8 (C /■ 



Andersson). 



