300 OTlDIDiE. 



■white bands near the base and tipped with white, like the greater 

 coverts ; quills black, the inner primaries white at the base and 

 especially along the inner web ; the secondaries black, with more or 

 less white tips ; tail-feathers broadly banded with black, these bands 

 four in number, the light bands three in number, the lower one 

 almost entirely white, the two others sandy-coloured and almost 

 obscured by black frecklings, the feathers with whitish or ashy tips ; 

 crown of head and nape brown, with a white coronal patch before 

 the occiput ; upper part of the hind neck and the sides of the neck 

 white, the rest of the hind neck sandy rufous, this colour spreading 

 on to the upper mantle, which is finely freckled with blackish ; the 

 entire sides of face, throat, fore neck, and chest blackish brown, 

 mottled on the latter with bars of white and brown, and separated 

 from the rufous hind neck by a line of white, which extends down 

 the sides of the neck and joins the sides of the breast, which are 

 white like the rest of the under surface of the body, as are also the 

 under wing-coverts : " legs and bill yellow '" {E. L. Layard). Total 

 length about 36 inches, culmen 2-8, wing 21-5, tail 9, tarsus 5-9. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour, but smaller, and 

 distinguished by the colour of the lower throat and chest, which is 

 brown, mottled all over with freckles and bars of white ; chin and 

 upper throat white ; eyebrow white, mottled with blackish markings ; 

 sides of face brown, also mottled with white ; wings as in the male, 

 but the primary-coverts for the most part white with blackish ends. 

 Total length about 30 inches, culmen 2-4, wing 18'2, tail "'o, 

 tarsus 4-8. 



Eab. South Africa. 



a,b. (5' 2 ad. sk. South Africa. Sir Andrew Smith [C.]. 



2, Neotis burchelli. 



Eupodotis burcheDii, Heiigl. J. f. O. 18G7, p. 301 {ex Wiirttemb. 



MS.). 

 Otis ludwigii {nee Hilpp.), Heiiffl. Sijst. Uebers, p. 53, note (1856). 

 Otis burchelli, Heuyl. Orn. N.O.-Afi: ii. pt. 1, p. 943, tab. xxxi. 



(1873). 



Adidt. " Of large size. The head, fore neck, and sides of neck 

 dusky blackish, the former more ashy ; an obsolete occipital spot 

 and a large nuchal patch whitish ; feathers of the hind neck pale 

 rufous, partly vermiculated with dusky brown, white at the base ; 

 the nape bright cinnamon-rufous ; breast and abdomen white ; 

 feathers of the throat and sides of the breast very long and loose, 

 directed forwards, white slightly tinged with rufous ; under tail- 

 coverts shaded with buff, some of them towards the tip banded and 

 vermiculated with blackish ; interscapulary region, scapulars, lesser 

 wing-coverts, inner secondaries, and upper tail-coverts isabelline buff, 

 transversely marked with blackish spear-shaped spots and finely 

 vermiculated ; quills smoky blackish, more or less Avhite towards the 

 base, the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh primaries also having a 

 white spot on the middle of the outer web ; smaller primaries and 



