7. LISS0T18. 305 



1. Lissotis nnba. 



Otis nuba, Cretzschm. in Riipp. Atlas, Viig. p. 1, tab. 1 (1826) ; Hiipp. 

 MiiK. Senckenb. ii. p. 226 (1837) ; id. Neite Wirb., Vog. p. 16, note 

 ( 18:!5) ; Less. Cojnpl. Buf. i. p. 405 (18:i6) ; Des Murs in Lefebtre's 

 Vol/. Abi/.ss. p. 144 (1845) ; Eiij>j). Sij.st. Uebers. p. 110 (1845) ; 

 Brehm, J. f. O. 1853, Extrah. p. 101 (Nubia & E. Sudan) ; id. 

 J. f. 0. 1855, pp. 65, 493 (Kordofan) ; He.ugl. in Fetenn. Mitth. 

 I85i), p. 31, 1869, p. 412 ; Hartm.J. f. O. 1863, p. 318 (Dj(5bel-el- 

 Djilif), 1865, p. 230; Uewjl. Orn.' N.O.-Afr. ii. pt. i. p. 045 

 (1873), App. p. clxxvii (S. ISubla; Kordofan"; Senaar) ; Hartei-t, 

 Kat. Vogelsamml. Senckenb. 3Ius. p. 208 (1891). 



Eupodotis nuba, Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 533 (1845); Bp. C. Ii. xliii. 

 p. 416 (1856) ; Gray, Hnnd-l. B. iii. p. 7, no. 1195 (1873). 



Iloubara nuba, Reichenb. 'Ilandb., Gall. tab. cclvi. fig. 2174 (1848) ; 

 Ileugl. Sgst. Uebers. p. 53 (1856 : Nubia & N. Kordofan) ; Antin. 

 Cat. descr. Ucc. pp. xxi, 96, note (1864) ; id. J. f. O. 1805 

 p. 73. 



Adult. General colour above very light tawny with coarse but 

 sparsely distinct black freckliugs, generally in the form of cross-bars 

 with a few iiTcgular arrow-head marks on the scapulars and mantle ; 

 lower back and rump also tawny with indistinct dusky cross-lines 

 not so pronounced as on the back ; upper tail-coverts rather more 

 ashy than the back, with somewhat coarser frecklings and indica- 

 tions of narrow blackish bars like the tail ; wing-coverts like the 

 back, with very few cross-markings ; median and greater coverts 

 with white tips, the latter almost uniform lawny colour and with 

 scarcely any vermiculations ; bastard-wing and primar3--coverts 

 almost entirely white with a subtcrminal shade of black ; quills 

 blackish, all but the outermost primary with white tips, the greater 

 part of the bases white or tinged with tawny, the innermost 

 secondaries like the back ; tail-feathers ashy freckled with black 

 mottlings and crossed by a couple of narrow black bands, the bases 

 of the feathers being whitish ; crown of head also liglit tawny, with 

 minute cross-lines of blackish, and with a baud of black on each 

 side of the crown meeting on the nape ; lores and eyebrow white 

 like the rest of the sides of the face ; car-coverts slightly washed 

 with ashy blue like the hinder neck, lower throat, and fore neck ; 

 cheeks and chin white, as also the rest of the sides of the throat ; 

 in the centre of the throat a broad black streak ; fore neck and 

 chest deep tawny rufous, this colour extending backward on the 

 sides of the neck and reaching upwards so as to separate the grey 

 on the hind neck from the mantle ; breast, abdomen, under wing- 

 coverts, axillaries, and (juill-lining white with a few dusky cross- 

 markings on the upper breast : '■ bill hornj' yellow, more dusky 

 towards the tip; feet pale yellow; iris ochraceous " (2'. //t'w/Zi/i). 

 Total length about 25 inches, culmen 1"85, wing 13"3, tail 5*6, 

 tarsus 4-2. 



Uab. N.E. Africa. 



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