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and with a large patch of the same colour on the outer half of the 

 inner web, secondaries thickly vermiculated with buff on the outer 

 web and on the tip of the inner. Ear-coverts brown ; feathers on 

 the sides of the face white, with brown shafts. Chest, breast, and 

 thighs dull brown, with very wide white shaft-stripes extending 

 nearly halfway to the base of the feathers, so that white is the pre- 

 dominating colour of the chest and breast. Belly, sides, and flanks 

 similarly coloured; but the brown parts are mostly duU reddish 

 chestnut, and the basal half is edged on either web with pure white. 

 Under tail-coverts buff, dotted on the sides with black. Tail rufous 

 buff, thickly vermiculated with black. Iris brown. Legs reddish 

 dusky ; bill dusky, gape reddish ; naked skin round the eyes, chin, 

 and throat scarlet, shading inth yellow on the neck. Male with a 

 sharp pair of spurs, often supplemented by a second rudimentary 

 blunt pair. 



Male. Total length 15 inches, wing 8-1, tail 3-6, tarsus 2-5. 



Female. Total length 13-5 inches, wing 8:1, tail 3-3, tarsus 22. 



Hah. North-east Africa ; Massouah, Bogos, Abyssinia, Berberah. 



a, b. S ad. sk. Rairo, Massouah, Aug. Tweeedale Coll. 



( W. Jesse). 



c. d ad. sk. Ain, Lebka Valley, Masso- W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



uah, Aug. [P.]. 



d. 2 S'd. sk. Haddas River, Massouah, W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



June. [P.]. 



e,f. c? 2 ad. sk. Sahati, Massouah, June { W. Salvin-Godraan and 



Jesse). Shelley Colls. 



ff, 5 ad. sk. Kooniayli, Massouah, June Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(W.Jesse). 



h. 2 ad. sk. Abyssinia. (Type of species.) 



i. cJ ad. St. Abyssinia. Dr. Ruppell [P.]. 



9. Pternistes infuscatus. 



Pternistes rubricoUis, Siippell (nee Chnel.), Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 106 

 (1845); Speke, Ibis, 1860, p. 248 [Somali Land]; Reich. J.f. O. 



1891, p. 143 [Ugogo]. 



Pternistes infuscatus, Cabcmis, J. f. 0. 1868, p. 413 [Lake Jipe] ; 

 id. V. d. Decken's Eeis. iii. p. 44, pi. 14 (1869) ; id. J.f. O. 1878, 

 p. 244; Fisch. Zeit. ges. Orn. i. p. 383 (1884) [Chaga Dist.] ; id. 

 J. f. O. 1885, p. 120 [Pare, Pangani] ; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1889, 

 p. 370 [Useri River] ; Grant, Ibis, 1892, p. 55 ; Shar2ie, Ibis, 



1892, p. 552. 



Francoiiuus infuscatus, Finsch 8j- Hartl. Vog. Ost-Afr. p. 578 (1870) ; 



Shelley, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 310 [Mamboio] ; Schaeck, M^m. Soc. Zool. 



Fr.iv. p. 322(1891). 

 Pternistes clappertoni, Shelley, Ibis, 1888, p. 295 [Taveita and 



Merereni]. 



Adult male and female. Closely resemble P. leitcoscepvs, from 

 which they differ in the following points : — None of the feathers of 

 the crown have whitish-buff shafts ; the feathers of the neck and 

 upper back are washed with chestnut, and the white shaft-stripes 

 on the upper parts are narrower and much less distinct on the 



