EUPLECTES TAHA.— Smith.* 



AvES.— Plate VII.— (Male.) 



Mas hi cesl. E. niger ; capitc superne, dorso, caudaj tectricibus superioribus et iiifcrioribus, fasciaque 

 ante humeros flavis ; humeris, remigibus, rectricibusquc cinereo-brunneis ; oculis brunneis ; pedibus 

 flavo-brunneis. 



LoNGiTUDO, 4 line. lin. 



Mas in hyem., et Fern. E. supra pallide flavo-brunneus, nigro-striatus ; subtus cinereo-albus lineis 

 brunneis variegatus ; gutturc pectoreque ochrco tinctis ; striga superciliari flavescenti-alba. 



Colour. — {Male, siimmer j)himage.) The crown of the head, the back, the 

 upper and under tail-coverts, the vent, and a narrow oblique stripe on each 

 side of the breast immediately in front of the shoulders, bright yellow; 

 shoulders, quill feathers, and tail, grey-brown ; the shoulder feathers, and the 

 outer vanes of the quill feathers, faintly edged with dirty white ; in sides of 

 shoulders pale cream-yellow verging on white; thighs pale yellow, freckled 

 with brown. The space in front of the eyes, the sides of the head, a stripe 

 on each side of back adjoining the bases of the wings and all the under parts 

 of the body as far as the vent, deep brownish black. Bill light umber-brown, 

 the lower mandible lightest. Feet and claws yellowish brown ; eyes brown. 



{Male, winter j)lumage.) Above, pale yellowish brown ; the head, neck, and 

 interscapulars, freely dashed with longitudinal brownish black stripes or 

 blotches, and the back and upper tail coverts with faint narrow stripes of the 

 same colour ; shoulder feathers blackish brown edged with rusty white ; 

 quills and tail grey-brown, the former margined externally with rusty white, 

 the latter margined on both vanes and tipt with the same colour. Eyebrows 

 yellowish white ; ear coverts pale rusty brown ; under parts of body greyish 

 white, the throat and breast tinged with sienna yellow, and these as well as 

 the flanks are variegated by longitudinal brown streaks. Bill, particularly 

 the lower mandible, lighter than in the summer season. 



* In bringing this bird under the notice of our readers, I liave not adopted the generic term {Oryx) 

 introduced by Lesson, (Traite d'Ornithologie, torn. i. fol. 437. Paris 1831.) who first established tlie 

 genus to which it belongs, merely because the same term had previously been selected by Col. H. Smith, 

 (The Animal Kingdom, translated by E. Griffith, vol. 5.) to designate one of the forms of the 

 Antelopidce. 



