-0. CREC0P8IS. 3 J 



a, fj. S 2 ad. sk. South Andnmans, March, April Hume Coll 



Q (ii. J. Wimh-rle,/). 



c. V ad. sk. South Andaiuans, April (A'. /. Tweeddale Coll. 



nimberhy). 



9 ad t '' '""• ^ U-- ?^r\ ^^"'"^ (^- -^ H"°ie CoU. 

 + '■•"• sii. ly tmherlei/) . 



20. CEECOPSIS. 



^TfT'ihST^"' ^"'^' ^"'^' ^''^ ^''"*' "°- ^'- p- -^^"^ ^'''''' 



'^ C. egregia. 



-Ba»(/e. Confined to Africa. 



1. Crecopsis egregia. 



Crex egregia, Peters, MB. k. Aknd. Berlin, 1854, p. 134 (Mozam- 

 ^^''^liJ^'^'-P'', ^d. LaycmVs B. S. Afr\. 012(1884) XrT* 

 Ib,s, 188.5, p. 346, 1886, p. 292 (Potchetltroom). ^ ^ ' ^ ' 



Urtygometra sp., Licht. Xomencl. Av. p. 90 (1854) 



WTf^'o. 1S3 ^''' ?r^^' '^•^*^' ^'^"■'- P- ^"^ (^^^^ = ^^''''- °^"^) ; 



Ortygometra ango'lensis, 2f«r«. Ibis, 1862, p. 340; vlfon? t c 

 fFanti''"?"' ''• ^- ^- '"'"' P- '^'' ^■'- ^-;i870:p. 487 



Ortygometra egregiii, Finsch .$■ Ilartl. Tog. Ostafr. p. 778 (1870) ; 

 (rra,j,Hund-l. B m p 62, no. 104-50 (1871); Ileuffl. Orn. N.0.1 

 Afrn. pt. 2 p 1241 (Gondokoro), App. p. cxevi (1871) ; Skarve 

 ifBoumcr, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, iii.'^p. 79 (1878- Boma)- 

 Sharpe, ,« Oates' MatebeleLd. App. p. 324^1881 ."G^buleweyo \ 

 lineage, Orn Angola, p. 479 (1881); Boehm, J. f. O. 1882, p. 188 



n!^T''4n ^^V *''«^r'"^-/- ^- 1^^'^' P-34b(KakomaI)ec.); 

 Ilartl Abhandi. nat J er. Bremen, vii. p. 119 (1881 : Lado 

 lelz. Urh. z.-LGese^lsch. Wien, xxxi. p. 155 (1881: Mahagi • 

 Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. (2) ii. p. 84 (1891). ^'^duagij , 



Adult General colour above oUve-brown, mottled with black 

 centres to the feathers ; scapulars like the back ; lower back, rump 

 and upper tail-covcrts blackish, with sandy-brown margins; win£ 

 coverts olive-brown like the back, but with less conspicuous black 

 centres ; greater series black, with brown margins ; bastard-wing 

 pnmary-coverts, and quills uniform blackish, the innermost second- 

 aries resembling the greater coverts ; tail-feathers blackish, edged 



l'Inlr''V"Ty°; •'["'"" "^ ^''^^ ^^"^ *^« ^^^=1^ t»t darker, Avith 

 longitudinal blackish centres to the feathers; hind neck more 

 uniform than the back ; lores, eyebrow, and sides of face bluish 

 grej with a supraloral streak of white; cheeks and throat pure 

 white ; sides of neck bluish grey, Uke the lower throat, fore neck, 

 and chest; breast and abdomen white, barred with black, more 

 broad y on the sides ot the body and flanks, the sides of the vent 

 inged with vmous buff; thighs broAvn externally, white internally • 

 nuder tail-coverls white, broadly barred with black : under win- 

 coverts nearly uniform blackish, with white bars ; axillaries blackish, 

 barred with white ; quills below uniform dusky brown : - bill- 

 upper part of upper mandible dark elate-colour, lower part near the 



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