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coarsely with black, which takes the form of bars and terminal 

 spots ; wing-coverts like the back ; the median coverts also with 

 large bars and spots of black, but the outermost greyish with irre- 

 gular bars of dusky black ; the greater series ashy grey, with a black 

 band at the end and narrowly tipped with white, the shafts promi- 

 nently black and the inner major coverts regularly barred across 

 with black ; primary-coverts and quills black, the inner primaries 

 narrowly tipped with white, the secondaries white at the base and 

 for a great part of the inner web, the three outer primaries with a 

 large white mark on both webs, and the seventh, eighth, and ninth 

 having a conspicuous white mark forming a speculum ; the innermost 

 secondaries barred across with black ; lower rump and upper tail- 

 coverts similar to the back, but a little more definitely streaked 

 longitudinally ; the centre tail-feathers with regular black bars, in- 

 creasing in width towards the outside of the tail, the external feathers 

 having a broad black band at the end, before which is an equally 

 broad white bar ; head like the back, the black predominating ; 

 lores whitish, as well as the feathers above and below the eye, and 

 a broad band across the sides of the face, this whitish band sur- 

 mounted by a line of black ; the cheeks and ear-coverts tawny, 

 streaked with black ; throat white ; the lower throat, fore neck, and 

 breast, as well as the sides of body, clear tawny or sandy buff, lon- 

 gitudinally streaked with black centres to the feathers ; abdomen 

 white; under tail-coverts orange-rufous or pale cinnamon ; under 

 wing-coverts white, but the lesser series and those round the bend 

 of the wing brown, lined with black so as to resemble the upper 

 series ; the lower primary- coverts black at the ends, forming a large 

 patch ; axillaries grey with a black shaft-streak : " bill yellow at 

 the base, black towards the tip ; feet yellow, dark along the front ; 

 iris bright yellow " (T. Ay res). Total length 16 inches, culmen 1*35, 

 wing 9-1, tail 4*5, tarsus 3 - 7. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in plumage. Total length 

 15 inches, culmen 1-4, wing 8-7, tail 4-2, tarsus 3*65. 



I have had no means of determining, from the series in the British 

 Museum, the precise differences between the old and young birds ; 

 but as some are very much darker than others, 1 take it that these 

 will probably be found to be less mature than the more rufous 

 specimens. 



Hab. Cape Colony, extending on the west to Damara-land, and 

 throughout South-eastern Africa to Tabora and the Kilimanjaro 

 district in Eastern Africa. 



a. Ad. sk. Elephant Vley, Damara- Tweeddale Coll. 



land (C. J. Andersson). 



b, c. Ad. sk. South Africa. Tweeddale Coll. 



d. Ad. st. South Africa. Sir A. Smith [C.]. 



e. Ad. sk. South Africa. Seebohm Coll. 

 /. J ad. sk. Berg Biver, S. Africa (E. Seebohm Coll. 



L. Layard). 

 a. Ad. sk. Natal. Seebohm Coll. 



