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ashy brown or whitish ; crown of head dusky blackish brown, 

 forming a cap ; the lores and feathers round the eye black; a spot 

 of white below the eye, and a second spot of white behind the 

 latter ; ear-coverts, throat, and chest dark ashy brown ; entire 

 breast pale chestnut, the flanks inclining to ashy brown ; abdomen, 

 lower hanks, thighs, and under tail-covcrts white; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries chestnut, the outer coverts dark brown with a 

 spot of white at the base of the primary-coverts : " bill black, the 

 base vermilion; claws reddish brown; iris brown" (E. Newton). 

 Total length 9 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 7 - 5, tail 2*65, tarsus 1. 

 Hab. Madagascar, and Eastern Africa from the Zambesi to Lamu. 



a. Ad. st. Madagascar. Purchased. 



b. Ad. st. Madagascar. Mr. Gerrard [C.]. 



c. Ad. sk. Zambesi ( Sir J. Kirk). Livingstone Expedition. 

 rf.Ad.sk. Lamu, Sept. 1 1. F. J. Jackson, Esq. [P.]. 



2. Galactochrysea liberiae.* (Plate V. fig. 1.) 



Glareola megapoda, Gray, List Grallce Brit. Mtis. p. 62 (R. Quorra : 



descr. nulla!) ; id. lland-l. B. iii. p. 18, no. 10029 (1871 ); Biittik. 



Notes Leyden Mm. vii. pp. 233, 256 (1885 : descr. princeps), x. 



p. 99 (1888), xi. pp. 127, 136 (1889) ; Seeb. Geogr. Distr. Charadr. 



p. 267 (1888). 

 Glareola nuchalis {nee Gray), Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 211 (1857) ; 



Reichen. J.f. (). L877, p. 11 (Loangob 

 Glareola marchei, OustaUt, Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) i. p. 104 (1877). 

 Glareola nuchalis liberia>, Schl. Notes Leyden Mas. p. 58 (1881 ). 



Adult. General colour above dark ashy brown with a slight 

 olive gloss. Wing-coverts and inner secondaries like the back ; 

 outer coverts, bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish 

 brown, with a little white at the base of the inner web and the 

 secondaries. Upper tail-coverts white, forming a band ; tail- 

 feathers blackish, white at base, increasing in extent towards the 

 outermost, which have only the terminal third black, tho centre 

 feathers edged with white at the end of the inner web. Crown of 

 head darker and more blackish brown than the back, with a collar 

 of bright cinnamon on the hind neck and sides of neck ; lores 

 blackish, as well as the chin ; below the eyes a streak of white ; 

 sides of face, ear-coverts, cheeks, throat, and breast dark ashy grey, 

 becoming lighter on the sides of the body and flanks ; abdomen and 

 thighs whitish, slightly washed with grey : vent and under tail- 

 coverts white ; under wing-coverts blackish, axillaries greyish : 

 " bill coral-red, the point black ; feet coral-red ; iris dark brown " 



* Following the absurd custom of earlier days, that the naming of a specimen 

 in a museum was sufficient to set up a specific designation for the whole world 

 to recognize, Mr. G. R. Gray called this species Glareola megapoda in 1844, 

 but gave no description by which it could be identified. The best description 

 is that of Mr. Biittikofer, and it would hare been a pleasure to have followed 

 his recognition of the species, but for the fact that, in the meantime, the late 

 Professor Schlegel had named it G. nuchalis liberue, eo that one has no option 

 but to adopt the latter name. 



