9. nAGKDASHIA. 19 



Adult male. General colour blackish, glossed with olive-green ; 

 tail-feathers blackish, slightly glossed with steel-green ; wings 

 parti-coloured, with a large patch of white on the inner edge of the 

 lesser and median series, the rest of the coverts blackish in the 

 centre, with broad white margins or tips, giving a mottled appear- 

 ance to the wings ; the bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills 

 blackish, glossed with blue, the secondaries with green, the inner 

 ones exactly like the back ; head very much crested and the neck- 

 plumes elongated to a certain extent, the feathers of these parts 

 being dusky with hoary-grey margins ; sides of face uniform dusky 

 brown, the ear- coverts washed with hoary grey; remainder of under 

 surface dusk}- brown, slightly shaded with hoarj' grey ; the under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries dusky with a greeuish shade, more 

 distinct on the quill-lining : " bill and caruncle on throat dusky 

 red ; feet pure red ; iris pearly white, with a red ring " (Heiiglin). 

 Total length 28 inches, culmen -l-T, wing 13*9, tail 5'4, tarsus 2'4. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 25 inches, 

 culmen -I'T, wing 14, tail 6, tarsus 2-4. 



Bab. The same as that of the genus. 



a. Ad. St. Abyssinia. Dr. Riippell [P.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Facade, Abjssinia, May 2 ( W. Shelley Coll. 



Jesse). 



c. cT ad. sk. Seuafe, April 23 ( W. Jesse). Tweeddale Coll. 



d. 2 fid. sk, Angolala, Shoa, June (Sir W. India Museum. 



C. Harris). 



e. S ad. sk. Ankober. Feb. (IV. C. H.). India Museum. 

 /,(/. Ad. St. Shoa. {W. C. H.). India Museum. 



9. HAGEDASHIA. 



Type. 



Hagedashia, Bp. Comp. ii. p. 152 (18-jo) H. hagedash. 



I'arnopio, Heine, in Heine ^ Reichen. Nomencl. Mris. 



Hein. p. 314 (1890) II. hagedash. 



Range. Confined to Africa. 



1. Hagedashia hagedash. 



Hagedash, 8parrm. Voy. i. p. 280. 



Tantalus hagedash. Lath. hid. Orn. ii. p. 709 (1790). 



Tantalus cattrensis, Licht. teste Bp. 



Ibis hagedash, VieUl. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xvi. p. 19 (1817) ; Licht. 

 Verz. Doubl. p. 75 (1823) ; Wagler, Sijst. Av., Ibis, p. 186, sp. IG 

 (1827) ; id. Isis, 1829, p. 760 ; Less. Traite, ii. p. 567 (1831) ; Biipp. 

 Neue Wirb., ToV/.p. 49 (1835-40) ; Grill, Zool. Anteckn. pp. 11, 54 

 (1858: Knysna); Schl. Mas. Pays-Bas, Ibis, p. 10 (1863: 

 S. Africa ; Senaar) ; Cab. in Von der Deck. Reis. iii. p. 47 ( 1869 : 

 Aruscha; Osi River) ; Finsch ^- Hartl. Vor/. Osto/;-. p. 735 (1870 : 

 Mozambique) ; Heiigl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. Abth. i. p. 1141 (1873) ; 

 W. A. Forbes, Ibis, 1883, p. 523 (Loko, Nov.) ; Fischer, Zeitschr. 

 yes. Orn. i. p. 380 (1884: Great Aruscha; Lake Naivascba) ; 

 Shelley, F. Z. S. 1885, p. 230 (Taveta) ; id. Ibis, 1885, p. 415 

 (Somali-laud); Fischer, J.f. O. 1885, p. 117 (Osi-Tana Mouth; 

 Wami liiver) ; Biihrn, J.f. O. 1885, p. 38 (Ugalla River); id. 

 J.f. O. 1886 (Kiranda, W. of Tanganyika), p. 418 (Lufuku R ), 



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