170 j\Ir. W. R. Ogilvie Grant on Birds 



d. ? imm. Wama, Abyssinia, 12 March, 1899. (No. 

 403.) 



Iris brown; bill and legs black. 



The females are all immatnre birds. Specimen a has on 

 the left side of the breast a single chestnut feather among 

 the darker banded plumage of the underparts, indicating, no 

 doubt, the commencement of the perfectly adult plumage. 



A young male from Abyssinia {Verreaux), in the British 

 Museum Collection, with the upper parts and breast still 

 partially in the spotted nestling-jjlumage, is moulting direct 

 into the plumage of the adult male — the lower breast, belly, 

 and under tail-coverts having already become nearly uniform 

 rufous-chestnut, while many feathers of the upper parts, throat, 

 and upper breast are deep black. This bird shows no trace 

 of the rufous patch down the middle of the throat. It seems 

 probable, therefore, tliat though the females nltimately become 

 similar in plumage to the adult male, they do not attain the 

 adult plumage at the first moult : an intermediate dress, in 

 which the breast and belly are dusky rufous-buff indistinctly 

 barred with black, being worn for at least a year, 



[Never met with east of Addis Abbeba. — L.] . 



143. EllYTHROPYGIA LEUCOPTERA. 



Erythropygia leucoptera (Riipp.); Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. vii. p. 79 (1883) ; id. P. Z. S. 1895, p. 483; Hartert, 

 Kat. Mus. Senckenb. p. 9 (1891) ; Lort Phillips, Ibis, 1898, 

 p. 410 [N. SomalilandJ ; Hawker, Ibis, 1899, p. 70. 



$ . Ketchen Waha, Abyssinia, 16 January, 1899. (No. 

 204.) 



Iris hazel ; bill and legs dark. 



[This bird was seen o^ly on the Ha^Yash plain. — L.] 



144. Crateropus smithi. 



Crateropus smithii Sharpe, Bull. B. 0. C. iv. p. xli (1895) ; 



id. P. Z. S. 1895, p. 487 [Western Somaliland] ; Hawker, 



Ibis, 1899, p. 73. 



a. $. AVarabili, Abyssinia, 4 January, 1899. (No. 103.) 

 Iris red ; bill black ; legs light slate-colour. 



