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upper parts ; under wing -coverts, axillaries, and quill-lining pure 

 white : " bill horn-grey, black at the tip, dull yellowish at base of 

 mandible ; feet dull ochre-yellow ; iris yellowish " (J". F. Naumann). 

 Total length 17 inches, culmen l-o, wing 9-4, tail 3-7, tarsus 2-4. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in being somewhat lighter 

 rufous and more coarsely mottled with black on the upper surface ; 

 the head and neck not particoloured but resembling the back ; the 

 hind neck and mantle, as well as parts of the scapulars and back, 

 spangled by ovate drops of sandy buff, most of these drops having a 

 twin spot of black in the centre ; sides of face sandy rufous streaked 

 with black ; throat white ; lower throat, fore neck, and upper breast 

 sandy buff, the former streaked with black, and the fore neck and 

 chest with circular bars or spots of black; remainder of under 

 surface pure white as also the under wing-coverts ; the lower 

 primary-coverts with cross-bars of black ; the wings as in the male, 

 but the exterior coverts and greater series of coverts barred with 

 black. Total length 17 inches, culmen l'l,wing 9-7, tail 4, tarsus 2-4. 



Young. Generally distinguishable from the adult by the greater 

 amount of barring on the chest, by the more profuse barring on the 

 white upper tail-coverts, and the sandy frecklings of the primary- 

 coverts : " iris brownish yellow " {J. F. Naumann). 



Hab. Southern Europe and Northern Africa, throughout Central 

 Asia to North-western India. 



a. Juv. St. 



b. 2 juv. sk. 



c. S ad. st. 



d. $ ad. st. 



e. S ad. st. 

 /. $ ad. St. 

 (J. $ ad. sk. 



h. S ad. sk. 

 i, k- 6 2 ad. sk. 

 I. $ juv. sk. 

 m,n. c? 5 ad. sk. 

 0. Ad. sk. 

 p. <S ad. sk. 



g. cJ ad. sk. 



r. 2 imm. sk. 

 s. 2 ju'^- sk. 

 t-w. J juv. ; .r, 

 y,=. 5juv.sk. 

 a'. Skeleton. 



Europe. 



Plymouth, Devonshire. 



Walmwell, Dorsetshire. 



Hampshire. 



Germany. 



Italy. 



Malaga, Spain, Oct. 26 (H. 



Saunders). 

 Tangiers. 

 Algeria (Loc/ie). 

 Ain Djendeli, Algeria (O.S.). 

 Lower Volga, May. 

 Pertiia. 

 Omsk, Siberia, May 25. 



Saissan, May 20 (Dr. 0. 



Finsch). 

 Afghanistan (Griffith). 

 Candahar, Nov. 

 Murdan, Dec. to April (/. M. 



Johnson), 

 Europe. 



W. Prideaux, Esq. 

 Piev. E. Pickard 



Cambridge [P.J. 

 E. ]\lcMorland, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Purchased. 

 Purchased. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



M. Favier [C.]. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Old Collection. 

 St. George Littledale, 



Esq. [P.]. 

 Geogr. Soc. Bremen, 



India Museum. 



Colonel Swinhoe [P.]. 

 Hume Coll. 



Zoological Society. 



Type. 



3. LOPHOTIS. 



Lophotis, Reichenb. Av. Syst. tab. xxxi. fig. 9 (1849) . . L. rutici'i*ta. 

 Mange. Confined to Eastern and Southern Africa. 



