3. LOPHOTIS. 291 



Keij to the Species. 



a. With a vinous-chestnut crest on the nape nificrista, p. 291. 



b. With an isabelline or vinous-buff crest on the nape . (jimliuna, p. 292. 



1, Lophotis ruficrista. 



Otis ruficrista, Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr., Birds, pi. 4 (18 3 ) Gray, 

 List Orulhe Brit. Mus. p. oG (1844) ; Strickl. 4" Scl. Conir. Orn. 

 1852, p. 158 (Daniara) ; Mont. 1\ Z. S. I860, p. 89 (Benguela) ; 

 Schl. Mm. Ptiijs-Bas, Cursores, p. o (1805) ; Bocaye, Orn. Angola, 

 p. 418, note (1881) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. pp. Go9, 854 

 (1)?84 : Orange River) ; Biittik, Aotes Leyden Mus. x. p. 242 

 (1888 : Cunene Kiver). 



Eupodotis ruficrista, Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 633 (1845) ; Layard, 

 B. S. Afr. p. 28(3 (1867 : not in Cape Colony or S. of Orange 

 Kiver) ; Gurncy, Ibis, 1868, p. 269 ; Chapman, Trac. in S. Afr. 

 ii. App. p. 414 (Lake Ngami) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 8, no. 9932 

 (1871); Ayres, Ibis, 1871, p. 263 (Marico) ; Gurney in Anderss. 

 B. Dam. Ld. p. 259 (1872 : Gt. Namaqualand and S. Damara- 

 land) ; Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 386 ^Transvaal, Julv) ; Ayres, Ibis, 

 1880, p. 110 (Transvaal); Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. "361 (Crocodile 

 River, Matje Umschlope, Matahele-land, breeding); Ayres, Ibis, 

 1886, p. 293 (Transvaal). 



Lophotis ruficrista, Reichenb. Handb., Gall. tab. cclvi. fig. 2175 

 (1848) ; Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 416 (1856). 



Adult male. General colour above black in the centre of the 

 feathers, which are margined with sandy rufous and mottled witii 

 black, the feathers centred with lanceolate markings of pale sandy 

 buff ; lower back and rump sandy buff, cros.sed with blackish vermi- 

 culations and tinged with ashy on the rump ; the upper tail-coverts 

 and centre tail-feathers decidedly more ashy than the back and more 

 coarsely vermiculated with blackish, and distinctly crossed by bars 

 or arrowhead markings of black, the bars on the tail-feathers being 

 four in number ; the outer tail-feathers black, freckled with sandy 

 buft' and vermiculated towards the base, the outermost feathers 

 almost entirely black ; lesser and median wing-coverts like the back, 

 with the same lanceolate markings of sandy buff, the outer median 

 coverts white with black bases and black shaft-lines, the greater 

 coverts black, inner ones white, all the inner coverts and inner 

 secondaries coloured and mottled like the back ; bastard-wing 

 black ; primary-coverts also black, with the greater part of the 

 outer web sandy butf, this sandy-bulf portion sometimes mottled 

 and barred with black ; quills black, chequered for two-thirds of 

 their length with fulvescent markings, generaUy quadrate but 

 sometimes taking the form of bars ; crown of head dark slaty blue ; 

 lores, eyelid, and a broad eyebrow sandy bufl', streaked with blackish 

 edgings to the feathers, this superciliary band meeting ou the nape ; 

 ear-coverts light brown ; below the eye a band of slaty blue ; on the 

 nape a tuft of vinous-red feathers, forming a crest : hind neck ashy 

 brown tinged with grey ; cheeks and throat isabelline, with a broad 

 band of black in the centre of the latter ; lower throat and sides of 

 neck ashv grey, spotted with pule sandy buflf in the centre of the 



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