6. NE0T18. 303 



white, the inner ones almost entirely white, with a black subterminal 

 hand before a narrow white tip; bastard-wing tipped with white; 

 ])rimary-coverts blackish brown with white bars, the latter somewhat 

 broken up with brown frecklinps ; (piills blackish, the primaries white 

 at base of inner web, this gradually increasing on the inner ones till 

 it occupies nearly the whole of the inner web of the inner primaries 

 and secondaries, which have large white spots on the outer web 

 also, the innermost secondaries like the back ; centre tail-feathers 

 like the back, with white bauds near the base concealed by the 

 upper tail-coverts, the rest of the feathers black broadly banded 

 with white, the white bands three in number and a subterminal 

 one mottled with brown ; crow n of head black, with a slight indi- 

 cation of an ashy streak towards the occiput ; lores and a broad 

 eyebrow ashy white, as also the sides of the face, extending in a 

 narrow collar round the nape ; hind neck light orange-rufous ; throat 

 ashy white, followed by a patch of dark ashy brown, slightly paler 

 and inclining to bluish grey over the fore neck, on the sides of 

 which descends the orange-rufous colour of the hind neck ; remainder 

 of under surface from the fore neck downwards white ; under winw- 

 coverts and axillarics also white ; quill-lining ashy. Total length 

 about 38 inches, culnien 3'8, tail 13, tarsus 68. 



Ilah. West Africa from Accra to the Central Soudan and east to 

 Kordofan, Senaar, and the Djur district. 



a. (S ad. sk. Central Africa. Major Denham [P.]. 



('I'vpe of sjiecies.) 



b. 2 ad. sk. Kordofan, July 10. Consul Petherick [C.]. 



5. Neotis heiiglini. 



Otis heuglini, Ilartl. Ihis, lSo9, p. 344, pi. xi. (Zeila-IIerar); Fimck ^ 

 Ilartl. ];,(/. Ostiifr. p. (^^(ISrO) ; lleiu/l. Oni. N.O.-Afr. ii. pt. 1, 

 ]) !t42 (1873), Ai)p. p. clxxvii (\. Somi'ili-hind). 



Eupodotis heuglini, JItii(/lin in Pctcim. MUth. I8G0, Taf. 18, 1869, 

 p. 418 ; Gray, Hand-l B. iii. p. 8, no. 9927 (1871). 



Adult. General colour above dark brown, varied with irregular 

 markings of sandy buff and large arrow head markings of the same 

 colour, very distinct all over the back and wing-coverts; lower 

 back, rump, and upper tail-coverts more uniform and closely freckled 

 with blackish, the latter luiving two, and sometimes three, black 

 bauds across the featliers ; wing-coverts like the back, with the 

 same sagittate markings: median scries black at the ends ; greater 

 coverts, bastard-wing, and i)rimary-coverts dark ashy grev, tipped 

 with white and with a subterminal shade of black; quills also 

 dark grey tipped with white, before wliich is a subterminal shade 

 of black ; the primaries with a considerable amount of white on the 

 inner web, decreasing in size towards the inner primaries, where it 

 takes the form of a band, the innermost secondaries mottled like 

 the back; tail-feathers ashy, mottled with sandy butf and blackish, 

 and with a black band near the end of the tail, whieh is tipped with 

 white ; crown of head black, with a streak of whitish feathers down 

 the centre ; occiput, nape, hind neck, and sides of neck light bluish 



