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Tipper tail-coverts rather more tawny and more finely vermiculated ; 

 scapulars like the back, as also t he innermost secondaries, the latter 

 being a little more coarsely vermiculated ; wing-coverts tawny 

 rufous, the lesser series finely vermiculated with blackish lines, the 

 median scries uniform externally, the small coverts round the bend 

 of the wing blue-grey ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts slaty 

 blue, with dusky or blackish ends ; the outer major-coverts also 

 slaty blue, black at the ends, the inner major-coverts tawny rufous 

 like the median series ; quills black with slaty-blue bases, the latter 

 colour increasing in extent on the inner primaries and secondaries ; 

 tail tawny rufous at base, black at tip, the two centre feathers 

 sandy buff, freckled with Itlackish lines ; the outer feathers shaded 

 with slaty blue subterminally and having the inner web for the 

 most part slaty-blue ; on some of the feathers the tawny base of the 

 feather freckled with a few black vermiculations ; crown of head 

 slaty blue ; forehead black ; hind neck, sides of neck, and under 

 surface of body from the lower throat downwards slaty blue ; 

 lores and a broad eyebrow white ; below the eye a streak of white ; 

 behind the eye a black streak ; ear-coverts greyish white with five 

 black shaft-streaks ; from the fore part of the eye a largo black 

 patch, extending on to the ear-coverts and the fore part of the 

 cheeks ; hinder cheeks, chin, and sides of throat white ; in the 

 centre of the throat a large black patch, somewhat dilated laterally 

 and consisting of elongated plumes ; sides of upper breast sandy buff 

 with blackish vermiculations ; under tail-coverts tawny buff, with 

 minute blackish vermiculations ; under wing-coverts for the most 

 part slaty blue, but the greater series white with a bluish tinge ; 

 axillaries slaty blue ; quill-lining white : " bUl dusky, but pale at 

 the base ; tarsi and feet yellow ; iris dusky, with the outer ring 

 tawny " {T. Aijres). Total length 16 inches, culmen 1*3, wing 13, 

 tail 5-8, tarsus 3-85. 



Some specimens in the British and Leyden Museums have the 

 ear-coverts orange-buff instead of white. They are probably the 

 adult females. 



Hab. South Africa. 



a, b. Ad. sk. South Africa. Sir A. Smith, 



c, d. Ad. sk. South Africa. Earl of Derby [P.J. 



e. S ad. sk. Transvaal, .\pril 6 [T. Ayres). Gumey Coll. 



/. (S ad.sk. Transvaal, June 21 {T. E. Shelley Coll. 



Buckley). 



2. Trachelotis canicollis. 



Otis rhaad (nee Lath.), Riipp. Syst. Uehers. p. 110 (1845 : Shoa). 

 Lissotis senegalensis {nee V.), Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 53 (1866: 



Shoa). 

 Wato, Harris, Hiyhl. Ethiop. ii. p. 417 (1844). 

 Otis canicollis, Reicheit. Orn. Centralbl. 1881, p. 79 (Berbera) ; id. 



J. f. O. 1881, p. 3.34 ; Schahno &,; Iteichen. J. f. O. 188l>, p. 113 ; 



Salvud. Ann. Mus. Genor. (2) i. p. 214 (1884: Diiimbi, Shoa); 



Fischer, ZeiUchr. yes. Orn. i. p. 388 (1884 : Z^garuku; Kibaradja) ; 



id. J./. 0. 1885, p. 116 (,Massaj Barawa) ; S/tarj)e, Ibis, lb92, 



