8. TEACFELOTIS. 311 



secondaries tawny ■with black tips like fhe greater coyerts, or sandy 

 freckled with brown like the back ; lower back, rump, and upjter 

 tail-coverts sandy with fine duskj- vermiculations, the upper tail- 

 coverts and centre tail-feathers more coarsely mottled and crossed 

 with some more or less complete dusky bands ; tail sandy rufous at 

 base, with very minute vermiculations. with a broad band of black 

 at the end and another narrower band of black across the centre of 

 the feathers, the interspace being sandy buff with somewhat strong 

 dusky frecklings ; forehead and fore part of crown black, the hinder 

 crown and occiput blue-grey, surrounded by a .broad baud of black 

 which unites on the nape ; lores, a broad eyebrow, entire sides of 

 face, cheeks, ear-coverts, and upper sides of neck white ; hind neck 

 and sides of neck, lower throat, and centre of fore neck blue-grey ; 

 lower part of hind neck tawny rufous, this colour descending down 

 the sides of the neck on to the chest and sides of the upper breast ; 

 chin and upper throat white, followed by a patch of black on the 

 lower throat, extended laterally, and followed by a small white spot ; 

 remainder of under surface of body white, with a little sandy tinge 

 on the flanks and long under tail-coverts, and a shade of bluish 

 groy on the chest ; under wing-coverts and quill-lining white, 

 tinged with sandy buff : " bill huffish horn-colour, blackish towards 

 the tip ; feet and nails yellowish ; iris pale yellowish umber " ( Von 

 Ueufflin). Total length about 18 inches, culmen 1'4, wing 11, 

 tail 5, tarsus 3-9. 



Hub. From Senegambia to N.E. Africa. 



a. Ad. sk. Senegal (D'Einvilk). Riocour Coll. (Type of species.) 



4. Trachelotis barrovii *. 



Otis torquata, Ciivier, Rbgne Anim. i. p. 499 (1829: descr. nullii) ; 



Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Cursores, p. 4 (1865); Heugl. Orn. JV.O.- 



Afr. ii. pt. 1, p. 958, note (1873). 

 Otis barrovii, J. E. Gray, in GriffitKa An. Kingd., Birds, iii. p. 302 



(1829). 

 Otis senegalensis (nee V.), Gray, List Grails in Brit. Mus. p. 36 



(1844) ; Iloliib ^- ron Pelz. Beitr. Orn. Siidafr. p. 232 (1882) ; 



S/tarpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 639 (1884). 

 Eupodotis senegalensis (necV.), Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 533 (1845, pt.) ; 



Lai/ard, B. S. Afr. p. 285 (1867) ; Gumeti, Ihis, 1868, p. 48 



(Natal) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1869, p. 298, 1880, p. 265 (Transvaal). 

 Eupodotis crerulescens (wee VieilL), Butler, Feilden, Sf Reid, Zool. 



1882, p. 340 (Natal). 



Adult male. Similar to T. senegalensis but much darker above, 

 with large blotches of sandy buflF, the inner, lesser, and median 



• Latham and Gray refer to the " Wild Peacock " of Barrow's Voyage, 

 but give a page on which no mention is made of the bird. I myself have 

 not yet been able to find the correct quotation. Gray's description of his Otis 

 barrovii, like nearly everj- one of those given in Gritlitirs edition of Cuvier, is 

 poor enough, bui I think there can be no doubt that he intended to designate 

 the souJiem form of T. senegalensis. 



