50 CURSORITD2E. 



Charadr. p. 246 (1888, pt.) ; Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. (2) ix. p. 15 

 (1893 : Interior of Benguela). 

 Rhinoptilus albofasciatus, Sharpe, Bull. B. O. C. iii. p. xiv (1893). 



Adult female. Similar to H. chalcopterus, but distinguished by the 

 white bar down the wing, formed by the broad white margins of 

 the greater wing-coverts, by the dull bronzy green, scarcely purple 

 ends of the quills, and by the absence of the white band at the tip 

 of the central tail-feathers. Total length 10 inches, culmen 0'85, 

 wing 6-8, tail 2-85, tarsus 2-85. 



Hah. S. Africa, from Natal and the Transvaal to Damara-land and 

 Benguela. 



a. Ad. sk. Natal (T. Ayves). Seebohm Coll. 



b. J ad. sk. Colenso, Natal, Nov. 20. Capt.Savile Reid[C.]. 



c. Imm. sk. Potchefstroom, Transvaal, Jan. 21 Gurney Coll. 



(T. Ayres). 



d. 2 ad- sk. Otjimbinque, Damara-land, Jan. Tweeddale Coll. 



18, 1865 (C. J. Andersson). 



e. cJimm.sk. Ondonga, Jan. 22 (C. J. Andersson). Seebohm Call. 



8. Rhinoptilus bitorquatus. 



Macrotarsins bitorquatus, Blyf.h, J. A. S. Beng. xvii. p. 254 (1848). 

 Rhinoptilus bitorquatus, Striekl. P. Z. S. 1850, p. 223 ; Jerd. B. Lid. 



iii. p. 628 (1864) ; Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 228 ; Blanf. J. A. S. Beng. 



xxxviii. p. 190 (1862) ; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 112* (1879) ; Salvtn, 



Cat. Striekl. Coll. p. 294 (1882). 

 Cursorius bitorquatus, Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 19, no. 10041 (1871) ; 



Seebohm, Ibis, 1886, p. 119; id. Geogr. Distrib. Charadr. p. 247, 



pi. xiii. (1888). 



Adult male. General colour above brown, with faint traces of 

 sandy margins to the feathers ; wing-coverts more ashy brown, 

 fringed with whitish or sandy buff, before which is a sub-terminal 

 line of brown; along the wing a broad white band, commencing at 

 the carpal bend, and formed of the outer median and greater 

 coverts and continued by means of the white base to the outer 

 secondaries ; the inner secondaries resembling the other ashy-brown 

 wing-coverts and similarly edged with white or sandy buff: pri- 

 mary-coverts and primaries black, the four outer quills marked 

 with white as follows — the fourth has only a small spot of white 

 near the end of the inner web ; the third has a large white spot 

 near the end of the inner web ; on the penultimate feather the 

 white spot on the inner web is larger and extends across the outer 

 web also, forming a broad sub-terminal patch ; on the first primary 

 the white mark on the inner web is very large, and is extended on 

 to the outer web for some distance along the middle of the feather : 

 upper tail-coverts white, forming a broad band ; tail-feathers brown, 

 with a white spot at the end of the inner web, the base also white, 

 increasing in extent towards the outermost feather, where the 

 brown colour only forms a sub-terminal band ; crown of head dark 

 brown, parted down the centre by a broad band of creamy buff, 



