48 CURSOKIID.B. 



of neck sandy buff like the hind neck ; on the lower throat a blackish 

 collar, slightly tinged with rufous, extending from the ear-coverts 

 on each side, and forming a complete band, which is rather more 

 rufous in the centre ; this collar is followed by a broad white collar, 

 extending on each side to the hinder ear-coverts and encircling the 

 throat ; this again is followed by a broad band of sandy buff across 

 the chest, which is mottled with longitudinal spots and streaks of 

 blackish ; from behind the eye a crescentic line of black extending 

 to the fore neck, and below the white band a second somewhat 

 interrupted band of black ; across the breast a band of light chest- 

 nut; axillaries and under wing-coverts white, with three broad 

 black bars near the edge of the wing ; quills dusky below, ashy 

 whitish towards the base of the inner web. Total length 9 inches, 

 culmen 08, wing 6-5, tail 3-4, tarsus 2 - 5. 



Hah. South-western Africa, from Ovampo-land to the Cunene 

 River. 



a. 2 a d. sk. Ondonga, Ovampo-land, Jan. 25 Seebohm Coll. 



(C. J. Andersson). (Type of species.) 



6. Rhinoptilus chalcopterus. (Plate IV. fig. 1.) 



Cursorius chalcopterus, Temm. PL Col. v. pi. 298 (1824: Sene- 

 gambia) ; Less. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 303 (1828) ; Riijyp. Mus. Senck. 

 ii. p. 211 (1837 : Senegambia) ; Gray, List Grail. Brit. Mus.\>. 61 

 (1844 : S. Africa) ; id. Sr Mitch. Gen. B. iii. p. 537, pi. 143 (1844) ; 

 Heuc/l. Syst. Uebers. p. 54(1856 : Blue Nile; E. Senaar) ; Hartl. 

 Orn. W.-Afr. p. 210 (1857: Senegambia); Hartl. J. f. O. 1861, 

 p. 268 ; Gurney, Ibis, 1861, p. 134 (Natal) ; Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, 

 Cursores, p. 12 (1865 : Senegambia) ; llvwjl. J.f. 0. 1865, p. 100 

 (Senaar and Kordofan) : Hartl. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 62 ; Layard, 

 B. S. Afr. p. 290 (1867); Heugl. J.f. O. 1867, p. 304; Fmsch, 

 Tr. Z. S. vii. p. 295 (1870) ; id. # Hartl. Vby. Ostafr. p. 629 

 (1870); Ai/res, Ibis, 1871, p. 263 (Rhinoster River); Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. iii. p. 19. no. 10U44 (1871) ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. 

 ii. pt. 1, p. 970 (1873: Fazogloa ; Rahad, mouth of Blue Nile ; 

 Upper White Nile ; Kidj-Negro Land) ; Cab. J. f. O. 1878, p. 245 

 (Mombasa) ; Bbhm, J. f O. 1882, p. 184 (Kakoma) ; Schalow, 

 J. f. O. 1883, p. 340 (Mugonga) ; Skarpe, ed. Bayard's B. S. Afr. 

 p. '656 (1884, pt.); Fischer, Zeitschr. yes. Orn. i. p. 389(1884: 

 Little Aruscha) ; id. J. f. O. 1885, p. 115 (Usaramo) ; Seebohm, 

 Ibis, 1886, p. 118 (pt.) ; Matschie, J.f O. 1887, p. 138 (Tangan- 

 yika) ; Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 246 (1888); Emin, 

 J. f. O. 1891, p. 58 (Steppes of Ugogo) ; Reichen. t. c. p. 141 

 (Kinjakungi) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1894, pp. 25, 274 (Nyasa Laud). 



Cursor chalcopterus, Wagl. Syst. Av. Cursor, p. 81 (1827). 



Tachydromus chalcopterus, Swains. B. W. Afr. ii. p. 233 (1837). 



Rhinoptilus chalcopterus, Strickl. P. Z. S. 1850, p. 220 (Kordofan) ; 

 Antin. Cat. descr. Ucc. p. 98 (1864 : Blue Nile) ; Salvin, Cat. 

 Strickl. Coll. p. 504 (1882). 



Chalcopterus teniminckii, Reichenb. Av. Syst. Nat., Gall. p. xxx, 

 Taf. 3656. fig. 3543 (1852) ; Heine $ Reichen. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. 

 Orn. p. 339 (1890 : Senaar). 



Cursorius superciliaris, Heugl. J.f. O. 1865, pp.98, 100 (Kidj-Negro 

 Land); Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 19, no. 10045 (1871). 



