296 OTIDID^. 



a, b. 2 ad. st. South Africa. Sir A. Smith [C.]. 



c, d. cS ad. sk. South Africa. Sir A. Smith [C.]. 



(Types of species.) 



e. c? ad. sk. South Africa. Mrs. Sterling [P.]. 



/. cJ ad. sk. Transvaal. Shelley Coll. 



g, h. (S ad. et Potchefstroom, Transvaal, Jan., Gurney Coll. 

 juv. sk. May {T. Ayres). 



5. HETEEOTETRAX. ^^^^ 



Heterotis*, Sharpe (nee Eh:), Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, ix. 



p. 1 (June 1898) H. vigorsii. 



Range. Confined to Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Asillaries white. 



a'. Sides of face freckled like the head ; throat 



black, but no black spots on the cheeks and 



ear-coverts; sides of neck not streaked with 



black ; black not extending to the fore neck . . vigorsi, p. 296. 

 b'. Sides of face not freckled, uniform, a black spot 



at the gape ; cheeks and chin white, with a 



black patch behind the ear, and a streak of 



black from behind the cheeks down the hind 



neck rueppelli, p. 297. 



b. Axillaries black humilk, p. 298. 



1. Heterotetrax vigorsi- 



Otis vigorsii, Smith, P. Z. S. 18.30, p. 11 ; Grag, List Grallce Brit. 



Mus. p. 56 (1844); Schl Mus. Pays-Bas, Cursores, p. 5 (1866) ; 



Bryden, Kloof ^- Karroo, pi. to p. 308, fig. 6, & p. 320 (1889). 

 Otis scolopacea, Temm. PI. Col. v. pi. .576 (1835); Hewjl. Orn. 



N.O.-Afr. ii. pt. 1, p. 964, note (1873); Sharpe, ed. Bayard's 



B. S. Afr. p. 637 (1884). 

 Eupodotis vigorsi. Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 533 (1845). 

 Trachelotis vigorsii, Beichenb. Handb., Gall. tab. cclv. figs. 2171-72 



(1848). 

 Trachelotis scolopacea, Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 416 (1856) ; Heine Sf- 



Beichen. Noine7icl. AIus. Hein. p. 325 (1890). 

 Eupodotis scolopacea, Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 284 (1867) ; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. iii. p. 8, no. 99-34 (1871) ; Holub ^- Pelz. Beitr. Orn. 



Sudafr. p. 232 (1882 : Central Cape Colony to the Zambesi). 

 Heterotis vigorsi, Shai-pe, Bull. B. O. C. i. p. 1 (1893). 



Adult. General colour above dull ashy with an admixture of 

 sandy buff, the feathers finely irrorated with blackish ; scapulars 

 and inner secondaries with large blotches or bands of blackish ; 

 lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts more uniform, with very 

 tiny irrorations of black, the upper tail-coverts with a few in- 

 distinct blackish bars ; lesser wing-coverts rather lighter than the 

 back, very finely irrorated with blackish vermiculations, the greater 

 series rather more sandy-coloured, the markings coarser, and the 

 feathers tipped with black ; bastard-wing ashy like the wing- 



* Preoccupied in Fishes. 



