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coverts, and -widely barred with black. Some of the flank-feathers 

 are blotched on the onter web with chestnut ; rest of the upper 

 parts, scapulars, and wing-coverts (except the greater primary- 

 coverts) a mixture of chestnut and buff, with wide bars of black or 

 dark grey, interrupted on the back, rump, and scapulars by rather 

 wide buff shaft-stripes ; primaries, primary-coverts, and secondaries 

 greyish black, the latter barred with rufous on the outer web : tail 

 rufous buff, barred with greyish black. In some specimens the bars 

 on the under tail-coverts are obsolete and in others nearly so. Iris 

 light hazel-brown ; bill dark ashy horny, yellow at gape ; tarsi and 

 feet dark bright yellow ; a well-developed pair of spurs. Tota 

 length 11 inches, wing 5-5, tail 3, tarsus 1-5. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in having a black superciliary 

 streak passing down the side of the neck, a second commencing on 

 the lores passes along the side of the throat and joining that from 

 the other side completely circumscribes the throat with a black 

 line ; neck and chest dull chestnut, mixed with grey and with white 

 shafts ; the rest of the upper parts sometimes greyer, with the bars 

 and markings less regular : iris bright hazel ; bill dusky, basal part 

 chrome-yellow ; tarsi and feet bright chrome. J^o spurs. 



Immature male has the black superciliary and malar stripes of 

 the female partially developed, the outer webs of the primaries are 

 narrowly margined and marked with buff; otherwise the plumage is 

 the same as that of the adult male. 



In a still younfjer bird the plumage is nearly like the females, 

 but the chest is mixed with the white and black barred feathers of 

 the adult. 



In qtdte young examiiles the shaft-streaks on the upper parts are 

 stronger thau in the adults ; there are no traces of black lines on 

 the sides of the head ; the chin and throat are whitish, and the rest 

 of the underparts are more or less barred and spotted with black. 



Hah. East, South, and South-west Africa. 



a,b. cJ 2 ad. sk. Duruma, Aug. H. C. V. Hunter, Esq. 



c. 2 ad. sk. Zambesi. Dr. Bradshaw [C.]. 



d. 9 ad. sk. Lehtaba, Umzeilla's Countrv, J. H. Gurnev, Esq. 



-M^y {W. Ayres). ' ^ [P.]. 



e. c? ad. sk. Bamangwato, July {T. E. Shelley Coll. 



Buckley). 



f. S imm. sk. Limpopo Eiver, July (T. Shelley Coll. 



Ayres). 



g. (S ad. sk. Limpopo Eiver, Aug. [T. J. H. Gui'uey, Esq. 



Ayres). [!*•]• 



/(. 2 ad. sk. Tropic of Capricorn, S. Africa. Sir A." Smith [C.]. 



(Type of the species.) 



i,li. 2 ad. etjuv. Rusteuburg, Aug., Dec. (T. J. H. Gurney, Esq. 



sk. ' Ayres). fP.]. 



/. c5 ad. sk. Potchefstroom, Nov. (T. Shelley Coll. 



Ayres). 



m. S ad. sk. Spitzkop, near Potchefstroom, Shelley Coll. 



April {T. Ayres). 



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