574 STRUTHIONID.E. 



distinct longitudinal blackish-brown bands ; sides of the neck with 

 brown stripes ; breast fulvous white ; abdomen dirty white ; on the 

 back, from the whitish fulvous ground spring some straw-yellow 

 and black bristles, which have the apical half flattened, lanceolated, 

 and of horny texture " (Henglin). 



Egg-shell smooth. 



Hub. Northern Africa, south to the Niger on the west, to 

 Abyssinia on the east ; Arabia *, north to Southern Palestine. 



a, b. Pull. sk. Bogos-land. Hr. Esler [C.]. 



c, d. S ? skeletons. Gambia. Earl of Derby [P.]. 



e. S skeleton. Basin of the Upper Niger. Zool. Soc. [Purch.]. 

 /. Skull. 

 g. Bones. Earl of Derby [P.]. 



2. StrutMo molybdophanes. 



Struthio eamelus, Blyth, Journ. As^. Hoc. Beng. xxiv. p. 305 (1855) ; 



Heugl. Ibis, 1859, pp. 34o, 344 (part., Somali) ; Nathus. Zeitschr. 



f. loiss. Zool. 1868, p. 233, t. 13. tf. 3-6, t. 14. if. 7, 8, 9, 11, 



t. 15. f. 13 (structure of the egg-shell) ; Fischer u. Rchnw. J. f. O. 



1878, p. 247 (S. Galla-land) ; Bohm, J. f. 0. 1882, p. 178 



(Ilgogo, Central Africa), 1885, p. 53 (Central Africa). 

 Struthio molybdo])hanes, Rchnw. Sonntagsbl. Norddeutsch. Allgem. 



Zeit. n. 37, 16th Sept. 1883; id. Mitth. orn. Ver. Wien, 1883, 



p. 203, with pi. ; Rchniv. u. Schal. J. f. O. 1883, p. 399; Roche- 



hrune, Act. Soc. Linn. Bord. viii. p. 435 (1884) ; Salvad. Ibis, 1884, 



p. 116 (in confinement) ; Ed. ibid. ; JFinsch, t. c. pp. 352, 353 ; 



Gum. t. c. pp. 465, 466 (= australis ?) ; Rchnw. J. f. O. 1884, 



pp. 238, 248 ; Dallwitz, t. c. pp. 245, 246 (egg) ; Henhe, Zeitsckr. 



ges. Orn. 1884, pp. 219-222, t. xii. f, anter. (egg); id. Liebe Zeitsckr. 



1884, p. 38; Bodimis, J.f. O. 1885, p. 12; Dalhcitz, t. c. p. 102; 



Fischer, t. c. p. 114 (E. Africa) ; Nathus. t. c. pp. 165-176, t. ii. 



f. 2 (structure of egg-sliell) ; Rchnw. t. c. p. 404 ; Rchmo. u. 



Schal. t. c. p. 452; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1886, p. 320 (in confinement) ; 



Rchnw. J. f. O. 1887, p. 45 (Kitende Steppe, E. Africa) ; Schal. 



J.f. 0. 1888, p. 118 ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1891, p. 465 (in confinement), 



1892, p. 580, 1893, p. 613, 1894, pp. 456, 654 (Zool. Gard.) ; 



Gadow, Bronn's Thier-Reichs, vi. 4, p. 103 (1893) ; Schcd. J.f. O. 



1894, p. 7 ; Salvad. Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. (2) xliv. p. 548 (1894) ; 



Nolte, J.f. O. 1895, pp. 47, 55 ; Kuschel, t. c. p. 81 (n^g:). 

 ? Struthio australis, Fischer {nee Gum.), Zeitschr. ges. Orn. 1884, 



p. 395 (E. Africa). 

 Blauhalsige [Strauss], Rchnw. J. f. O. 1888, p. 302 (E. Africa, 



between Pangani and the sea). 

 ? Struthio sp., Emin, J.f. O. 1891, p. 58 (Ugogo). 



Adult male. Differs from the male of S. eamelus in having the 

 naked skin of the head, neck, and legs of a bluish grey, the head and 

 neck somewhat darker than the legs ; besides on the vertex there is 

 a horny plate of dirty yellowish, thickly surrounded with hairs, 

 similar to a tonsure ; there are no white feathers just at the bcgin- 

 niug of the back : bill pale red, horn-yellow at the tip ; the shields 



* Burton, Pilgrim. El Medinah and Mecca, ii. p. 105. 



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