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Adult. Brown abovo, with a broad band of white formed by the 

 upper tail-coverts ; wing-coverts and inner secondaries like the 

 back ; the edge of the wing white ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, 

 and primaries black, with metallic violet tips, before which is a 

 subterminal bar of metallic steel-blue with a coppery line in 

 between ; the greater coverts narrowly edged with white at the 

 ends ; secondaries ashy brown with black ends, and a great deal of 

 white on the inner web; tail-feathers brown, tipped broadly with 

 white, before which is a broad sub-terminal band of black ; crown of 

 head like the back ; lores white, as also the base of the forehead ; 

 the fore part of the crown parted with a line of creamy-buff 

 feathers ; a broad white eyebrow, followed by a narrow line 

 of black above the eye ; lower eyelid chestnut, as also a shade 

 behind the eye ; ear-coverts and sides of face sandy buff, varied 

 with black, which occupies the hinder part of the ear-coverts ; 

 behind the eye a spot of white ; cheeks and throat white, with a 

 creamy-buff tinge near the gape ; the sides of the upper throat 

 marked with a broad nioustachial band of brown, varied with black ; 

 fore neck and chest ashy brown, the latter paler brown, followed 

 by a black band ; breast and remainder of under surface of body 

 white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, tinged with creamy 

 buff ; several patches of black feathers along the outer edge of the 

 wing, the lesser coverts of which are black below : " bill blackish, 

 the basal half and angle of the mouth orange- red ; feet brick-red ; 

 iris umber-brown " (von Heuglbi). Total length 9*7 inches, culmen 

 0-8, wing 6-6, tail 3-4, tarsus 2.9. 



Hab. From Senegambia to N.E. Africa, and down the eastern 

 side of the continent to Natal and British Caffraria ; occurring also 

 in Damara-land and on the Coanza River. 



a. <$ ad. sk. Waliko, Bogos-land, Aug. 2 Tweeddale Coll. 



( W. Jesse). 



b. Ad. sk. River Coanza. Seebohm Coll. 



c. 2 ad- sk. Damara-land, Feb. 3 (C. J. Seebohm Coll. 



Andersson). 



d. Ad. sk. Tete, Zambesi (Sir J. Kirk). Livingstone Exped. 



e. Ad.sk. Tschiromo, Nyasa-land, Sept. H.H.Johnston, Esq., 



(A. Whyte). C.B. [P.]. 



/. 2 ad.sk. Lake Shirwa, Jan. 1 (A. H.H.Johnston, Esq., 



Whyte). C.B. [P.]. 



g. Ad.sk. Kei Road, about 18 miles east Major Trevelyan 



of Kinpwilliamstown. [P.]. 



h, i. Ad. st. South Africa. Sir A. Smith [C.]. 



7. Rhinoptilus albofasciatus. (Plate IV. fig. 2.) 



Cursorius chalcopterus (nee T.), Gurney in Anderss. B. Bam. Ld. 

 p. 263 (1872, pt. : Damara-land); Reichen. Mitth. Afrik. Ges. 

 i. p. 1 (1875 : Malange) ; Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 420 (1881 : 

 Capangombe and Humbe) ; Butler, Feilden,$ Rod, Zool. 1882, 

 r. .341 ; Ayre*. Ihi*. 1884, p. 232 (Potchefstroom) ; Sharpe, ed. 

 Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 6ofi (1884, pt.) ; Seebohm, Geogr. Bistrib. 

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