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12. RUP0D0TI8. 325 



coarsely mottled with black or grey frccklings, and having a broad 

 black subtcrminal bar before the white tip ; greater coverts also 

 like the median, but more thickly mottled with black or grey 

 vermiculations ; bastard-wing like the median or greater coverts, 

 but the subtcrminal bar not so strongly indicated ; primarj'-coverts 

 ashy brown, the inner ones mottled and broadly tipped with white ; 

 quills brown, the two outer ones scarcely freckled with white on 

 the outer web, but the inner ones becoming more white on the 

 inner web, barred with bluish grey and tipped \vith white, some of 

 the inner primaries chequered with sandy buff on the outer webs ; 

 secondaries bluish grey, everywhere mottled -with white, the 

 feathers tipped white, before which is a subtcrminal bar of blackish 

 brown, innermost secondaries like the back ; tail-feathers ashy 

 brown at the base, crossed by two broad bands of white, which are 

 separated from each other by bands of black, one broad and one 

 narrow, the latter followed by an indistinct white band which 

 merges into the sandy-brown ending of the tail, this portion having 

 a narrow band of black and a much broader subtcrminal band of 

 black, finishing with a white end to the feather, the whole of the 

 sandy-brown marginal portion of the feather being coarsely freckled 

 with black, the white bands having also a few indications of dusky 

 mottlings ; crown of head strongly crested, black, with a greyish 

 band of feathers down the centre ; the nape and sides of hinder 

 crown greyish white barred with black, exactly like the whole of 

 the neck ; sides of face, throat, a streak over the eye, a patch in 

 front of the eye, fore part of cheeks, and chin white ; on the fore 

 neck, partly concealed by the long barred feathers of the lower 

 throat, is a crescentic band of black, the sides of the upper breast 

 also marked with black ; remainder of under surface white, including 

 the axUlaries and under wing-coverts ; lower primary-coverts ashy 

 freckled with white, as also the lining of the quills : " bill light 

 horn-colour ; feet light yellowish ; iris lemon-yellow " (Antinori). 

 Total length about 52 inches, culmen 4-9, vriag 30*9, tail 13-8, 

 tarsus 8'55. 



Adult female. Much smaller than the male. Total length about 

 ■iO inches, culmen 32, wing 20'3, tail 10, tarsus Cy-l. 



Hub. South Africa, on the west to Benguela, and north to 

 Eastern Africa and Shoa. 



a. 2 ad. sk. South Africa. J. Rocke, Esq. [P.]. 



b. c? ad. sk. South Africa. Capt. Alexander fP.]. 



c. Head. Lydenburg District, Transvaal. Henrv Glynn, Esq. 



[P.'l- 



d. 2 ad. sk. Kilimanjaro. H. C. V. Hunter, Esq, 



[P.]. 



e. Ad. sk. [Abyssinia.] Purchased. 



3. Eupodotis edwardsi. 



Otis edwardsii, Grai/ in llanlw. III. Intl. Zovl. i. pi. 50 (c. 1S30) ; 

 Sc/il. ^fu^. Paifi-Ba.^, Cursores, p. 8 (18l>6); Adam, Str.F.i. 

 p. 393 (1873: Sambhur), ii. p. 339 (1874). 



