304 OTiDiDj?;. 



grey; lores white, spotted with black; eyebrow white, as well as 

 the feathers below the eye, the latter followed by a broad black 

 streak mottled with white spots, this streak extending on to the 

 upper part of the ear-coverts, which are otherwise bluish grey ; 

 chin and upper throat white ; lower throat and fore neck bluish 

 grey, overshaded with brown and followed by a band of deep chest- 

 nut across the chest, this colour extending backwards and separating 

 in a minor degree the bind neck from the mantle ; breast and the 

 remaining parts, including the under wing-coverts and axillaries, 

 white : '' bill greenish black, paler at the tip ; feet dull yellow ; 

 iris dusky " {T. Heuglhi). Total length about 25 inches, culmen 2-8, 

 wing 16-9, tail 5-8, tarsus 5-2. 

 Hab. Somali-land. 



a. Ad. sk. Somali-land. C. Chevalier, Esq. [P.J. 



7. LISSOTIS*. „ ^ 



Type. 



Lissotis, Eeichenb. Syst. Av. pi. xxxi. fig. 8 (1849) . . L. melauogaiter 

 Range. Over the greater part of Tropical Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



a. With a black line down the throat, but not 

 down the fore neck, which is bluish grey, 

 followed by a rufous patch on the chest ; 



breast and abdomen white nuha, p. 305. 



h. Chin and throat silvery grey, a narrow line of 



black running down the fore neck on to the 



chest, which is black like the rest of the 



under surface. 



a. Lower back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and 



tail brown, vermiculated with black and 



crossed by bands of blackish brown melanogaster, p. •'jOO. 



h' . Lower back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and 



tail black hartlaubi, p. 307. 



* The following species is founded on a female specimen, and though recog- 

 nized by Dr. Eeichenow as a good species, I have not been able to place it in 

 the ' Key ': — 



Lissotis maculipennis. 

 Otis (Lissotis) maculipennis. Cab. J.f. 0. 1868, p. 413 (E. Africa). 

 Lissotis maculipennis, Cab. in Von der Becken's Eeis. iii. p. 45, pi. xv. 



(1869). 

 Evipodotis maculipennis, Grai/. Hand-l. B. iii. p. 88, no. 9926 (1871). 

 Otis maculipennis, Finsch §' Hartl. Fog. Ostafr. p. 616 (1870) ; Heugl. 



Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. pt. 1, p. 964, note (1873) ; Fischer ^- Reichen. 



J. f. O. 1879, p. 338 (Gelidja) ; Fischer, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. i. p. 388 



(1884: Galla-land: Maurui to Aruscha); id. J.f. 0. 1885, p. 116 



(Pare Mts ; Pangaui ; Kipini). 



Hah. East Africa. 



