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arrow shaped, blackish spots ; belly white, flanks tinted with 
pale rufous yellow. Length 5 inches. Inhabits the country 
north of Kurrichaine. 
Genus Prerocies. Temm. 
Pterocles variegatus, Burch, (male). Front black; eyebrows, 
sides of head, and chin, light grey; general character of 
the plumage given by Burchell* in his description of the 
female. Inhabits the country between Latakoo and the 
Tropic. 
Pterocles gutturalis. Top of head brown, tinted with honey 
yellow; nape and sides of neck of the latter colour; back, 
shaded rusty grey, lavender purple, and honey yellow, the 
feathers towards quills blackish; eyebrows white ; space 
between eye and bill black; chin and part of throat straw 
yellow, behind the latter a half collar of black; belly, vent, 
and under tail coverts, deep reddish brown; wing coverts 
pale gall-stone yellow. Length 11} inches. Inhabits the 
country to the north and south of Kurrichaine. 
Genus Ors. Lin. 
Otis ruficrista. Head above rusty grey-blue; eyebrows, space 
in front of eyes, and the occiput, rusty white, mottled with 
brown, the latter with a pale chesnut crest of fine silky 
feathers; interscapulars, scapulars, and the lesser wing coverts, 
variegated pale rufous and brown, each feather with one or 
more arrow-shaped, buff coloured spots; chin-white, with a 
longitudinal black stripe; neck blue-grey, above freckled 
with white ; ears, and a spot in front of each shoulder, white; 
quills dark black-brown, some of them partially crossed by 
buff coloured bands; tail rounded, centre feathers with 
zigzag black and white lines, lateral ones green-black 
towards quills, with waved white lines. Length 20 inches. 
Inhabits the country between Latakoo and the Tropic. 
Otis Afracides. Crown brown, clouded with grey, and edged 
with white; ears, bar in front of interscapulars, shoulders, 
and a longitudinal band on each wing, white; neck and 
under parts shining black; interscapulars and scapulars 
variegated with rufous yellow and black transverse lines ; 
wing feathers black, the inner vanes of the primaries and the 
outer vanes of some of the secondaries, white towards quills ; 
tail rounded, the middle feathers finely barred black and 
rufous yellow, the lateral ones blue-grey, with waved black 
lines and a broad black bar towards points, all the feathers 
tipt with white. Length 19 inches. Inhabits the country 
between the Sneuwbergen and Kurrichaine. 
* Travels in South Africa, vol. 2, p. 345. 
