26 PTEKOCLID^. 



primary-coverts, and secondaries black, slightly margined with 

 white ; rest of the wing-coverts grey, with bright rust-coloured 

 extremities. Axillaries black. Chest grey, tinged with vinaceous, 

 shading into dark chestnut on the breast, bellj', and under tail- 

 coverts. Tarsi rufous buff. Tail of 16 feathers : centre pair like 

 the upper tail-coverts ; rest black, barred and tipped with chestnut. 

 Total length 12 inches, wing 8'3, tail 3*4, tarsus i'2. 



Adult female. A brownish-black band from the nostril to the eye ; 

 a narrow black stripe from the lores to the back of the eye, and the 

 chin and throat yellowish buff. Feathers of the top of the head, 

 back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and chest yellowish buff, each with 

 a wide black shaft-stripe enlarged at the extremity, the lower tail- 

 coverts being also barred with black. Primaries, secondaries, and 

 primary-coverts as in the male, but the outer secondaries are barred 

 on the outer web with buff. Scapulars black, tipped and toothed on 

 both webs with bright yellowish buff, and with a wide W-shaped 

 subterminalband of the same colour ; rest of wing-coverts the same, 

 but with the dark parts much reduced in extent ; breast, belly, and 

 flanks dull rufous buff closely barred with black, under tail-coverts 

 dark chestnut. Centre pair of tail-feathers yellowish buff', barred 

 with black like the longer upper tail-coverts ; rest like those of the 

 male. Total length 11-6 inches, wing S-2, tail 3*1, tarsus 1-1. 



Hah. S.E., E., and N.E. Africa ; ranging from the Transvaal in the 

 south to the highlands of Abyssinia in the north, and westwards to 

 the M'^embaere Steppes, and Massiland. 



a,h. S 9- ^d. St. S. Africa. Purchased, 



c. rf ad. sk. S. Africa. Earl of Derby [P.]. 



d-f. (S 2 ad. sk. Natal (7". Ayres). Tweeddale Coli. 



g,'h. cS ad. sk. Transvaal, July {T. E. Shelley Coll. 



Buckley). 



7, A;, c? $ ad.sk. Potchefstroom, Nov. {T. J. H. Gurney, Esq. [P.]. 



Ayres). 

 l~n. S $ ad. sk. Shasha River, Matabele- W. E. & C. G. Gates, 



land, Aug. Esqrs. [P.]. 



o-q. d ? ad. sk. Kilimanjaro, June. F. J. Jackson, Esq. 



r, s. (^ 2 ad. sk. Kilimanjaro, June. H. C. V. Hunter, Esq. 



tP-]- ^ 

 f, u- 6 2 ad. sk. Dongolo, Tigre, Abvssinia, W. T. Blanford, Esq. 

 March. " [P.]. 



6. Pterocles personatus. 



Pterocles personatus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 1.5 (Madagascar) ; id. 

 Voy. Sulph., Zool. p. 49, pi. 30(1844); Gray, List. B. iii. p. 50 

 (1844) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 519 (1845) ; Hartlaub, Ann. Mag. 

 N. H. ii. p. 391 (1848); id. J.f. O. 1860, p. 165 ; id. Orn. Beit. 

 Faun. Madagas. p. 71 (1861); Pollen, Ned. Tijd. v. d. Dierk. i. 

 p. 317 (1863) ; Grandidier, Rev. Mag. Zool. 1867, p. 419 ; Bartlett, 

 P. Z. S. 1875, p. 67 ; Hartlaub, Die Vogel Madaqascars, p. 273 

 (1877) ; Elliot, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 240 ; Grandidier, Hist. Madagas. 

 p. 48, pis. 196-8 (1885). 



