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subtcrminal blotch. Lesser, median, and secondary wing-coverts 

 and scapulars dark brown, with a subtcrminal bull' or bufi- 

 and-white blotch. Outer secondaries buS'y brown. Primaries, 

 primary-coverts, and rest of secondaries black, the first two 

 primaries with white shafts, and the five inner ones and the inner 

 secondaries tipped and partiall)- margined on the inner web with 

 white. Axillaries blackish brown. A white and dark chestnut 

 pectoral band separates the chest from the brown breast, which 

 shades gradually into buff on the belly, flanks, and iinder tail- 

 coverts. Featliers on front of tarsi white. Tail composed of 10 

 feathers : centre pair like the upper tail-coverts and produced into 

 long black filaments ; outer pairs dark brown tipped with buff. 

 Total length 12 inches, wing (r(3, tail 4-G, tarsus 0-85. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in having the lores, top of the 

 head, and upper back pale chestnut, shading into pale yellow on the 

 sides of the head, throat, and nape, each feather with a black shaft- 

 stripe, reduced to a subtcrminal spot on those of the throat, while 

 on the upper back and cliest it gives off lateral bars and terminates 

 in a rounded blotch, giving those parts a somewhat spotted appear- 

 ance ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts resemble the upper 

 back, but the ground-colour is mixed with buff. Secondary, 

 median and lesser wing-coverts, scapulars, and outer secondaries 

 pale chestnut-buff, each feather with a black shaft-stripe giving off 

 lateral bars and tipped with buff or buff and reddish brown. Ereast, 

 belly, and flanks buff, barred with black ; tail-feathers black, barred 

 on the outer part of both webs ^vith chestnut, the centre pair pro- 

 duced into moderate black filaments, rest tipped with huffy white. 

 Total length 10-5 inches, wing 6-2, tail 4-3, tarsus 0-8. 



Yovwj male resembles the adult female, but the top of the head 

 and upper back are more rufous in tone and barred M'ith distinct 

 narrow bars of brownish black, less regular on the head : the chest 

 is buft', irregularly marked -with dusky grey ; the throat, breast, and 

 belly resemble those of the adult male, but the throat is paler and 

 the breast more rufous. The ends of the primaries are. as usual, 

 tipped with buff vermiculated with black, and the centre pair of 

 tail-feathers are not produced into filaments. 



Hah. South Africa ; ranging eastwards to the Transvaal, south 

 to the Great Karroo, and west to Damaraland and Benguela. 



a, h. S .juv. ; $ Potchefstrooni, Aug., Nov. J. H. Guraev, Esq. [P.]. 



ad. sk. ( T. Ai/res). 



c. (^ ad. sk. Kroonstad, Sept. J. H. Gumey, Esq. [P.]. 



d-f. S $ nd. sk. Kiniberlev, June. J. E. Hartiug, Esq. [P.]. 



(/,'h. d ad. et S. Africa." J. Ilocke, Esq. [P,J. 



jiiv. sk. 



t. 2 ad. sk. S. Africa. Major-Gen. Hardwicke 



[P.I. 



k. 2 nd. sk. S. Africa. Goukt Coll. 



A wi. c? 2 ad. sk. Cape. Sir A. Smith [P.]. 



71,0. (S 2 ad. sk. Pengiiela. Monteiro Coll. 



;*. (J ad. sk. No locality. Gould CoU. 



q. Iium. sk. No locality. 



