364 



CVCVLir>M. 



Adidt. Forehead, crown, and ear-coverts uniform brown : a 

 broad white eyebrow ; back of the neck brown, with broad white 

 shaft-stripes edged with black; back and wings paler brown, passing 

 into bright chestnut on the quills, which have darker brown ends ; 

 some of the feathers of the mantle with white shaft-stripes like the 

 neck; remainder of the upper parts glossj- greenish black, with 

 numerous narrow buff bars on the uimp and upper tail-coverts and 

 a less amount on the basal portion of the tail : the tail-feathers 

 narrowly tipped with white : underparts buflfish white, strongly 

 marked on the sides and base of the throat with lanceolate white 

 shaft-stripes narrowly edged with black ; sides of the body and 

 under tail-coverts barred with dusky black ; under surface of the 

 wings chestnut like upper surface, slightly mottled witli buff on the 

 wing-coverts : bill and legs black ; iris red. Total length 14-7 inches, 

 culmen 1*15, wing 5-7, tail 8"6, tarsus 1'6. 



Younff. Differs in having the forehead, crown, and nape nearly 

 black with rr;fous-buff shaft-stripes : a broad eyebrow, cheeks, and 

 ear-coverts rufous-bufiP ; back of the neck, mantle, and wing-coverts 

 equally barred chestnut and black ; quUls more chestnut but partially 

 barred. 



Hah. N.E. Africa, extending on the cast to the Zambesi and 

 across to Benguela and Angola. 



a, b. Ad. sk. 



c. Ad. sk. 

 d-g. Ad. sk. 

 h. 2 ad. sk. 



i. <S ad. sk. 



k. 2 fid. sk. 



/. Ad. sk. 



m. 2 ad. ; n. c? 



imm. sk. 

 0. c? ad. sk. 



p. Ad. sk. 



q. Ad. sk. 



r. Ad. sk. 



s. Ad. sk. 



t. S ad. sk. 



u, V. (S ad. ; w, 



Juv. sk. 

 X. Ad. sk. 



y. Ad. sk. 



s. Stermini. 



Nubia. 



5tb Cataract of the Nile. 

 Gabsa, Bogos-Land {Us/er). 

 Kokai, Bogos-Laud, July 9 



(W. Jesse). 

 Aiu, Lebka River, July C. 



Bejook, Anseba Valley, 



Jidy 15. 

 Shoa (".S'(V W. Horris). 

 Socotra, March. 



Lado, Equatorial Africa, Feb. 



{Einin Pasha). 

 Mombasa. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 F. Galton, Esq. 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 India Museum. 

 Prof. I. B. Balfour 



Shellev Coll. 



Paugaui Eiver {Sir J. Kirk). 

 Zanzibar (Sir J. Kirk). 

 Dar-es-Salaam {Sir J. Kirk). 

 Landana, Congo [Dr. Lucan). 

 Rio Daude, Loanda, April 



{Sula). 

 Kattenbella, Beng-uela, Nov. Sharpe Coll. 



30 {Sala). 

 Benguela. 

 Abvssimia. 



Rev. A. F. Buxton 



[P.]. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 Shellev Coll. 

 SheUey Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 



Monteiro Coll. 



W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



rc.^. 



