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secondaries nearest to them marked at the tip witli a triangular 

 spot of white ; hirger -wing-coverts black, tipjjcd with white, the 

 inner secondaries vermiculated with buft' and having spear-shaped 

 spots of the same ; the tail-feathers smoky brown, venniculated 

 with buft', white at the base and edged with buff at the tip, with 

 two rather l)road bands of black, below margined with buff": bill 

 dusky honi-colour, with the margins and the basal half of the 

 mandible paler ; feet yellowish. Total length about 3'J inches, culmeu 

 2-'3'), wing 21, tail 10, tarsus 5-G." ( Voa llewjUa.) 

 Hah. .South Senaar, X.E. Africa. 



3. Neotis caffra. 



Otis caflfra, LicM. Cat. Iter. Nat. Ilnmhurfi, p. 36 (1773) ; id. Verz. 



Dmihl. p. 69 (1823) ; J. E. Gray iti Gr'iffitlia ed. Ciiv. An. Einyd., 



Jiirds. iii. p. 305 (1820) ; Guntey, Ibis, ISOO, p. 216, 1864, p. 360 



(Xatal), 1.S68, p. 467 ; Schl. Mu's. Pays-Bas, Cur.sores, p. 7 (1865); 



Heiiyl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. pt. 1, p. 064, note (1873) ; Bocaye, Oni. 



Anyola, p. 41G (1881: Pluilla, llumbe); Sharpe, ed. Layard's B 



S. Afr. p. 304 (1884) ; Bohm. J.f. O. 1885, p. 67 (Qua Mpara) ; 



Heichen. J. f. O. 1887, p. 47 (Kiniama, Feb.); Matschie, t. c. 



p. 138 (Karema); Bri/den, Kloof ^- Karroo, pi. xiv. tig. 1 (1839); 



£miu, J.f. O. 1891, p. 345 (Albert Nyanza). 

 Otis stanlevi, J. E. Grai/, Zool. Misc. p. 12 (1831). 

 Otis ruficoilis, Wayh-r, Isis, 1831, p. 520. 



Eupodotis ruficoilis. Gray, List GralUe Brit. Mas. p. 58 (1844). 

 Eupodotis caffra. Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 533 (1845) ; Licht. Nomencl 



p. 88 (1S54); /)'/». C. R. .\liii. p. 416 (1856) ; Layard, B. S. Afr. 



p. 283 (1867) ; Gray, Hattd-l. B. iii. p. 7, no. 9918(1871) ; HClub 



^- Felzeln, Beitr. Orn. Sitdafr. p. 233 (1882). 



Adult male. General colour above greyish, finely varied with 

 sandy and black vermiculafions, these markings somewhat coarser 

 and more pronounced on the scapulars and inner secondaries, where 

 there arc also to be seen occasional blotches of black ; lower back 

 and nimp more obscurely vermicnlafed, the grey shade of the upper 

 back not so distinct ; the upper taU-coverts, on the other hand, more 

 distinctly vcrmiculatcd, like the two central tail-feathers, the latter 

 having three distinct bars of black and one broad one of white : 

 lesser wing-coverts like the back, but somewhat browner and less 

 distinctly vcrmiculatcd ; median coverts black, with a good deal 

 of white at the base and a small white tip ; greater coverts 

 white, with black bars near the tip, and occasionally some other 

 black markings on the outer web, the inner web freckled with 

 brown ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts black, with small white 

 tips ; quills black, white at the base of inner web, this increasing 

 greatly on the inner webs of the inner primaries, which are also 

 chequered with white on the outer web, the secondaries black with 

 white tips ; tail-feathers, all but the central ones, barred with black 

 and white, the base being uniform black, with other bars of 

 black across tlie feathers, the subtcrminal white bar somewhat 

 mottled with black spots, the ends of the feathers mottled with 

 ashy ; crown of head black, with a white mesial band, tlanked 

 on each side by a broad whitish eyebrow ; nape greyish white, 



