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CHAKADKTIDJi. 



Adult female in breeding -plumage. Similar to the male, but having 

 the mantle, scapulars, and inner secondaries brown instead of black. 

 Total length 13 inches, culmen 2 - 2, wing 9*1, tail 3, tarsus 4*7. 



Nestling. Covered with down of an isabelline colour above, varied 

 with rather broad lines of black, with a streak of black down the 

 lower back and rump ; the first feathers being sandy rufous, barred 

 with black ; entire under surface of body creamy white. 



Young in first plumage. Similar to the adult female, and brown 

 on the mantle, scapulars, and inner secondaries, which have sandy- 

 buff margins to the feathers ; the wings are black, but have sandy- 

 buff margins ; the quills brown on their inner webs towards the tips, 

 which are broadly fringed or tipped with white ; forehead and sides 

 of face white ; the crown of the head and nape brown ; the hind- 

 neck ashy grey ; under surface of body pure white, with a shade of 

 grey on the fore-neck. 



Hob. Southern Europe, straggling occasionally to the Northern 

 and Central portions of the continent. Throughout Africa in suitable 

 localities ; extending eastward to Central Asia, the Indian Peninsula 

 and Ceylon, Cochin China and Western China. 



a. <$ ad. sk. 



b. Ad. ; c. Juv. sk. 

 d. cJ ad. ; e, f. ? 



ad. sk. 

 ff, h. <3 2 a( l- sk. 

 i. (5 ad. sk. 

 k. Ad. sk. 

 /. $ ad. sk. 

 m, n. <S 2 a( i- s k- 



o. cJ ad. sk. 



p. 2 imm. sk. 



q. Ad. sk. 



r. Ad. sk. 



s. 2 a< l. sk. 



t, u. (5 2 acl - sk. 



?». 2 ] uv - sk. 



iv. 3 ad. sk. 



.c. 2 a d- sk. 



y. Ad. sk. 



z, a', d 2 a d. ; b'. 



3 juv. sk. 

 c'. Ad. sk. 



d' . Juv. sk. 



e',f. c? 5 ad. sk. Persia 



Sicily (C. A. Wright). 



Spain. 



Zana, Algeria, June (0. S.). 



Tangier (Favier). 



Mogador. 



Dobrudscha, June 10 (H. S.). 



Sarepta, Lower Volga. 



Fnmagasta Lake, Cyprus, 

 Mav (F. A. Guillemard). 



Delta of the Nile (G. E. Shel- 

 ley). 



Senate, Abyssinia, April 

 ( W. Jesse). 



Central Soudan (Baron J. 

 W. von Midler). 



Angollala, Shoa, Jan. (Har- 

 ris). 



Accra, Gold Coast (J. Smith). 



Katumbella, Benguela, Nov. 5 

 (G. Sala). 



Benguela. 



Rio Coroca, Benguela, Jan. 

 (J. Anchieta). 



Potchefstroom, Transvaal, 

 July 27 (T. Ay res). 



Tete, Zambesi (Sir J. Kirk). 



Palombe River, Sbirwa Plain, 

 Oct. (A. Whyte). 



Madagascar. 



Fao, Persian Gulf, Jul}-. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Cell. 

 Salvin-Godrnan Coll. 



Gould Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Lord Lilford [P.]. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



India Museum. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Monteiro Coll. 



Monteiro Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Gurney Coll. 



Livingstone Exped. 

 H. H. Johnston, Esq., 



C.B. [P.]. 

 G. F. Scott Elliot, 



Esq. [P.]. 

 W. D. Cumming, 



Esq. [P.]. 

 K. Loftus, Esq. [P.]. 



