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band white ; remainder of under surface of body, from the chest 

 downwards, white, including the under wing-coverts and axillaries: 

 44 bill black ; feet dark scarlet, the toes more dusky ; iris pale 

 yellow; eyelids scarlet" (Th. von IJeuglin). Total length 10 

 inches, culmen 1'15, wing 8 - 5, tail 2-75, tarsus 2*3. 



Young. Differs from the adult in having the head brown like the 

 back, without any white on the forehead ; throat and fore-neck 

 also light brown, followed by an indistinctly-marked band of black 

 on the chest ; wings aud tail as in the adult. 



Hub. Prom Arabia, Abyssinia, and Shoa south to Xyasa-land 

 and the Eastern Cape Colony. 



a. J imm. sk. 



b. cf ad. sk. 



c. Ad. sk. 



d. <3 ad. sk. 



e. 3 ad. sk. 



f. $ ad. sk. 

 ij, h, i. Ad. 



imm. sk. 

 k. Ad. sk. 



et 



Ali\ ssinia. 



Tekounda, Tigre, March 4. 



Tscliiromo, Nyasa-land, Sept. 



(.4. Whyte). 

 Mpimbi, Upper Shire River, 



Feb. 20 (A. Whyte). 

 Natal (T. Ai/res). 

 Eland's Post (T. C. At more). 

 Kingwilliauistown, April, -May. 



Cape Colony, Oct. 6 (Sir A. 

 Smith). 



Seebohm Coll. 



W. T. Blanford.Esq. 



[P.]. 

 H. II. Johnston, Esq., 



C.B. [P.]. 

 II. EL Johnston, Esq., 



C.B [P ]. 

 Seebohm L'oll. 

 Sharp'' Coll. 

 Major TrevelyanjT.]. 



Gould CoU. 



3. Stephanibyx inomatus. 



Vanellus inomatus, Swains. B. JV. Afr. ii. p. 239 (1837) : Hartl. 



Oni. W.-Afr. p. 212 (1857: Gambia; Ashantee; Aguapim ; 



Elmina); Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Cursor •>. p. 63(1865: Elmina); 



Btittik. Notes Leyden Mus. vii. p. 236 (1885: Buluma, W. 



Liberia), viii. p. 205 (1880) ; Seebohm. Ibis, 1887, p. 350 (Durban) : 



Biittik. Notes Leyden Mus. x. p. 100 (1888), xi. p. 136 (1889); 



Seebohm, Geogr. jjistr. Charadr. p. 225 (IssS: Durban, Natal); 



Reichen. Fog. Deutseh.-Ost-Afr. p. 35 (1894: Ugalla). 

 Hoplopterus iuornatus, Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 542 (1847). 

 Hoplopterus spinosus, juv. ?, Bp. C. It. xliii. p. 418 (1850). 

 Charadrius melanopte'roides, Temm., teste Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, 



Cursores, p. 63 (1865) 



Shelley, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 598 (Melinda). 



Adult. Similar to S. melanopterus, but very much smaller, browner, 

 and with an oily-green gloss on the upper parts ; head brown like 

 the back, with a small frontal patch of white; lores, sides of face, 

 throat, and fore-neck ashy grey, darker on the fore-neck, and 

 followed by a bind of black across the chest; chin and upper throat 

 whiti.-h. The wings are differently coloured to those of S. melano- 

 fttrus, the wing-coverts being brown like the back, with only a 

 narrow white tip to the greater series; the outer secondaries are 



