G40 AL.\TTDIB,E. 



longest feathers ; tail-feathers dark brown margined with ashy grey, 

 the penultimate feather narrowly and tlie outermost a little more 

 broadly margined and tipped with sandy white or fulvous ; lores, 

 feathers above and below the eye, as well as a streak running along 

 the sides of the crown, fulvous white, but not forming a distinct 

 eyebrow : cheeks fulvous white, minutely spotted with blackish 

 brown ; ear-coverts dark brown streaked with sandy buff ; under 

 surface of body dull yellowish white, the throat very slightly spotted 

 with blackish brown, gradually narrowing on the lower breast and 

 sides of abdomen to hair-like lines ; bully, vent, and under tail- 

 coverts unspotted ; flanks ashy brown streaked with dark brown ; 

 under wing-coverts pale ashy brown narrowly margined with sandy 

 white, the outer feathers near the bend of the wing sandy white 

 spotted with brown, the centres of the feathers being of this colour : 

 " upper mandible horn-colour, the lower one buff shading into dark 

 horn-colour towards the tip ; legs pale brown; iris brown " (&. E. 

 SheJh'i/). Total length G-8 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 4-, tail 2-75, 

 tarsus 1. 



The sexes are alike in colour, but the female has rather a smaller 

 bill. The wing appears to be from 3-9o-4:"l in the males, and 

 from 3-75-3-9 in the females. 



Toum/. Duller and more uniform brown than the adult, with 

 -whitish edgings to the feathers of the crown, ear-cover ts, and the 

 wing-coverts, the greater series of the latter with sandy-rufous 

 margins ; quills brown, paler towards the tips, and margined with 

 sandy rufous paling into whitish buff towards the tips of the second- 

 aries ; under surface of body white, the breast streaked with blackish 

 brown, each feather narrowly margined with whitish. 



Winter plunuuie. Duller and more ashy brown than in summer, 

 all the feathers obscured with greyish margins ; underneath more 

 yellowish, the spots on the breast duller and paler brown, and not 

 nearly so largely developed. 



Hah. South Africa. 



a. Ad. sk. Cape Colony. Sir A. Smith [C.]. 



b, c, d. Ad. ; e. Juv. Cape Colony [E. L. Laijard). Sharpe Coll. 

 sk. 



f. Ad. sk. Cape Colony {Butler). Shelley Coll. 



V/ /( Ad. sk. Ceres and Stellendorp, Jan. Shelley Coll. 



{G.E. S.). 



i. Ad. sk. Colesberg (A. F. Ortkpp). S ilvin-Godman Coll. 



k, I. cj 2 ad. sk. Hope Town (T. C. Atmore). Sharps Coll. 



jH 9 ad. .sk. Crau'je Fre.? State, May 23 Shavpe Coll. 



( W. Lucas). 



ti. S 3.d. sk. Ijittle Naniaqua-Land, July Sharpe Coll. 



20 {(_'. J. Andersso7i). 



