7. MICRO PARKA. 89 



1. Microparra capensis. 



Parra capensis, Smith, III. Zool. 8. Afr., Birds, pi. 32 (1839 : Algoa 

 liiy,; Cray, Gen. B. iii. p. 5«9 (1846) ; Reichenb. Grail. Taf. cxi. 

 fig. 1122 (1852) ; llaril. Orn. TV.- Afr. p. 240 (1867 : Ashantee) ; 

 Ayres, Ibis, 18154, p. GO (Natal); Gurnet/, t. c. p. 360; Layard, B. 

 S. Afr. p. 330 (1807) ; Finsch # Hart*. Vog. Ostafr. p. 783 note 

 (1870); Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 70, no. 1053(5 (1«71); Gurney in 

 Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 330 (1872 : Lake Regions) ; Sharpe in 

 Oatess Matabele Land, App. B, p. 324 (1881); Holub § von Pelz. 

 Beitr. Orn. Siulafr. p. 297 (1882: Pantamatenka River); Sharpe, 

 ed. LayarWi B. S. Afr. p. 649 (1884) ; Tristram, Ibis, 1888, p. 206 

 (Shirts' River) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1894, p. 474 (Lake Shirwa, Feb.). 



Microparra capensis, Cab. J.f. O. 1877, p. 350; Ileichen. JB. Hamb. 

 Wimentch. Anst. x. p. 8 (1893 : Quilimane). 



Aphalus capensis, Elliot, Auk, v. p. 301 (1888) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, 

 p. 545 (Lake Naiwascha). 



Adult. General colour above brown, the inner secondaries like 

 the back ; wing-coverts brown with hoary-whitish margins ; primary- 

 coverts and bastard-wing blackish with slightly paler tips ; quills 

 blackish, browner at the ends, the secondaries with broad white 

 tips forming a band ; crown of head bright chestnut, followed by a 

 broad black patch down the neck, which becomes shaded with 

 purple on the mantle, and flanked with a patch of bright chestnut 

 on each side of the latter ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 bright chestnut, the plumes of the lower back long and parti-coloured, 

 being either edged or tipped with purplish brown ; tail-feathers 

 bright chestnut, with obsolete sub-terminal spots of blackish ; lores 

 and base of forehead golden yellow ; a distinct eyebrow, sides of 

 face and throat white, washed with golden yellow on the sides of the 

 neck and sides of the upper breast ; the remainder of under surface 

 white ; axillaries and sides of body bright chestnut ; under wing- 

 coverts black : " bill and claws yellowish brown ; feet livid greenish 

 yellow " {A. Smith) : " bill bright brown ; tarsi and feet light 

 greenish brown; iris light hazel" (T. Ayres). Total length 6 

 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 3-4, tail 1*2, tarsus 1-35, middle toe and 

 claw 2-1. 



llaU. South Africa, north to the Lake Regions and the Zambesi, 

 extending to the Shire River and Lake Naiwascha in Central East 

 Africa. 



a, b. Ad. et Kingwilliamstown. Major Trevelyan[C.]. 



imm. sk. 



c. Ad. st. Natal. J. EL Gurney, Esq. 



[P.]. 



d. 6 ad. sk. Natal. Tweeddale Coll. 

 e,f. Ad.sk. Makalaka Country (Dr. Bradthmo). Shelley Coll. 



g. Ad. sk. Pantamatenka River (F. Gates). W. C.'& C. G. Oates, 



Esqrs. [P.]. 

 h. Ad. sk. Zambesi (Dr. Mdh-r). Tweeddale Coll. 



i. £ ad. sk. Lake Shirwa, Nvasaland, Feb. Sir H. II. Johnston, 

 (A. Whyte). [P.]. 



