180 PHASIANID^, 



id. Ibis, 1880, p. 109 [Rustenburg, Jjimpopo, and Eland's R.] ; 

 Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 3G0 [Inshlangeen and Quae-quae Rivers, 

 Matabele] ; Sckaeck, Mem. Soc. Zool. Ft: iv. p. 327 (1891). 

 Pternistes swainsoni, Gray, List Gall. B. iii. p. 32 ( 1844) ; Gurney's 

 ed. Anderss. B. Damaraland, p. 244 (1872) [N. Damaraland] ;■ 

 Grant, Ibis, 1892, p. 54 ; Sharpens ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 587 

 (1884) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1886, p. 292 [Limpopo R.]. 



Adult male. Lores black, margined ■with brown. Feathers of the 

 top of the head, back, rest of upper parts, chest, breast, sides, flanks, 

 thighs, and under tail-coverts umber-brown, finely dotted with black 

 towards the extremities, and with narrow dark shaft-stripes except 

 on the head, where they are nearly obsolete, and on the mantle and 

 long scapulars, where they are considerably wider and darker ; back 

 and sides of the neck and feathered parts of the face black, with 

 white margins ; ear-coverts brown. Feathers of the beUy brownish 

 buff, mixed with white towards the margins, mottled with black 

 and with black shaft-stripes, forming a blotch towards the extre- 

 mities ; most of the feathers, as well as those of the breast, are 

 margined ou the sides with chestnut. Primaries, secondaries, and 

 tail brown, the outer webs of the secondaries and the tail-feathers 

 vermiculated with black. Naked skin round the eyes and on the 

 chin and throat dark rose-red. Bill black, with the lower mandible 

 and bare skin over the nostrils red. Legs and feet black, with a 

 ruddy tinge. Iris brown. Tarsi with a long sharji pair of spurs, 

 sometimes supplemented by a second rudimentary pair. Total 

 length 14 inches, wing 8, tail 3-1, tarsus 2-4. 



Adult female. Resembles the male, but most of the feathers of the 

 belly resemble the chest and breast, and are without the chestnut 

 margins which are conspicuous in the male. There are no spurs on 

 the tarsi. Total length 12-5 inches, wing 6-9, tail 2-9, tarsus 1'9. 



Hah. South Africa ; Matabele, Transvaal, Damaraland. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Inshlangeen River, June {J. Shelley Coll. 



(S". Jameso7i). 



b. S ad. sk. Limpopo River, Aug. {T. J. H. Gumey, Esq. [P.] 



Ayres). 



c. cf ad. sk. Transvaal. J. H. Gurney, Esq. [P.]. 



d. $ ad. sk. Lydenburg Dist. F. A. Barratt, Esq. [P.]. 



e. S ad. sk. S. Africa. 

 /. 2 ad. St. S Africa. 



7. Pternistes rufopictus. 



Pternistes rufopictus, Reich. J.f. 0. 1887, p. 52 [Wembaere] ; Hartl. 

 Abh. nat. Ver. Brem. xii. p. 40 (1891) [Ussambiro] ; Schaech, 

 Mem. Soc. Zool. Fr. iv. p. 366 (1891) ; Grant, Ibis, 1892, p. 55. 



Adult male. Top of the head dark brown ; superciliary streak white, 

 edged above with black ; naked sides of the head margined below 

 with a black band, beneath which is a white line which borders the 

 naked chin on either side. Feathers of the fore neck grey, with 

 black shaft-streaks, those of the rest of the under surface white, 



