306 OTIDIB^o 



2. Lissotis melanogaster. 

 Otis melanogaster, Eilpp. Mus. Senckenb. ii. p. 240 (1837) ; id. Neue 



Wirb. Voff. p. 16, Taf. 7 (1835) ; Gray, List Grallce in Brit. Mus. 



p. 55 (1844) ; Des Murs in Lefebvre's Voy. Abyss, p. 143 (1845) ; 



mipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 107, tab. 41 (1845) ; Kirk, Ibis, 1864, p. 331 



(Mouth of Zambesi) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 114 (Karagweh) ; Schl. 



Mus. Pays-Bas, Cursores, p. 9 (1865) ; Heugl. in Petertn. Mitth, 



1869, p. 415 ; Finsch ^- Sartl. Voy. Ostafr. p. 614 (1870) ; Heugl. 



Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. pt. i. p. 951 (1873), App. p. clxxviii ; Reichen. 



J.f. O. 1877, p. 11 (Loango Coast) ; Socage, Orn. Angola, p. 417 



(1881: Huilla; Caconda; Angola ; Diique do Bragauza) ; Sharpe, 



ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. pp. 642, 854 (1884) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. 



Genov. (2) i. p. 213 (1884: Daimbi; Adda GaUa) ; Boftm, J.f. O. 



1885, p. 52 (Gonda) ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1887, p. 351 (Natal) ; Reichen. 



J. f. 0. 1887, p. 48 (Kabondo) ; Matschie, J. f. O. 1887, p. 145 



(Lifuku ; Likulwe ; Upamba Lake) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. 



(2) vi. p. 309 (1888 : Lake Cialalaka) ; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 48 



(Redjaf). 

 Eupodotis melanogaster. Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 533 (1845) ; Sartl. 



Orn. W.-Afr. p. 207 (1857 : Senegal ; Casamance) ; Layard, B. S. 



Afr. p. 286 (1867) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 570 (Ambriz) ; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 8, no. 9923 (1871) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1872, 



p. 73 ; Shelley Sf Buckley, t. c. p. 290 (Accra) ; Ussher, Ibis, 1874, 



p. 72 (Accra) ; Solub ir Pelz. Beitr. Orn. Siidafr. p. 233 (1882) ; 



Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 362 (Umvuli Eiver). 

 liissotis melanogaster, Reichenb. Handb., Gall. tab. ccliii. figs. 2160- 



63 (1848) ; Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 416 (1856) ; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. 



p. 53 (1856). 

 Otis (Sypheotides) melanogaster, Blanf. Geol. ^ Zool. Abyss, p. 427 



(1870: Adigrat; Antalo). 



Adult male. General colour above dark brown, this colour pre- 

 dominatiug over the sandy-colou^red portions of the upper surface, 

 the feathers being vermiculated rather coarsely with blackish and 

 having large median ovate or sagittate streaks of black ; scapulars 

 like the back ; lower back and rump nearly uniform brown with 

 very few transverse frecklings of sandy buff ; wing-coverts lighter 

 and more tawny, with the same kind of black frecklings and with 

 very distinct arrowhead blotches of black, the marginal and median 

 coverts white, as also the bastard-wing feathers, which have slight 

 remains of black spots, the outer bastard-wing feather having black 

 bars and mottlings and tinged with buff ; greater coverts white vdth. a 

 slight fulvous tinge, and regularly barred with three bands of black, 

 the inner webs somewhat coarsely mottled with the same ; primary- 

 coverts black tipped \vith white and an additional bar of white as 

 well as the base, the latter tinged with tawny ; first primary black, 

 the remainder almost entirely white with black tips, the inner 

 primaries white with a subterminal band of black, the secondaries 

 black with two large spots of white on the outer web, the second 

 one almost cou<;ealed by black motthng, the innermost secondaries 

 like the back; upper tail-coverts and centre tail-feathers rather 

 more ashy brown, the remainder either tawny or blackish brown, 

 thickly freckled with blackish brown and crossed by five black 

 bands, the outer feather almost entirely black ; crown of head like 

 the hind neck, sandy buff minutely freckled with black and orna- 



