10 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
opened contained the remains of lizards. Mr. Gird’s bird was pro- 
bably engaged in the pursuit of frogs. Itis found also near Grahams 
Town. 
Mr. Atmore writes :— Meiring’s Poort: Got a fine adult female 
of P. typicus. She was full of frogs. This accounts for their sitting 
so long on stumps, ete. by pools of water. They are very easily 
procured ; not at all shy but scarce.” 
Mr. Ayres has obtained the present species in Natal, and it was 
met with on the Zambesi by the late Dr. Dickerson, who collected 
two specimens there. Dr. Kirk, however, did not meet with it. 
Andersson did not find the bird in Damara Land, but Sefor Anchieta 
has sent to the Lisbon Museum a single example from Gambos in 
the Mossamedes district. 
Adult. General colour rusty pearl-grey, with a row of large black 
spots from each shoulder; head crested, and with throat and chest 
bluish. Flanks, thighs, belly, and vent profusely barred, black and 
white ;* wing and tail feathers black, and tipped with white, the 
latter with a broad white bar across the centre; bare space round 
the eye, cere and legs light-yellow. Iris dark-brown. Length, 2’ 1”; 
wing, 1’ 6”; tail, 12”. 
Young. General colour brown, with rather paler margins to the 
feathers, which are whitish at base; quills blackish brown; the 
secondaries paler brown, like the back, the latter much mottled with 
white near the base; all the quills barred across with dark brown ; 
tail brown, tipped with fulvous, and crossed with five bars of darker 
brown; head much crested, all the feathers fulvous at their base 
and on their margins, brown in the centre, somewhat tinged with 
rufous, especially on the sides of the crown and of the neck ; forehead 
whitish, slightly streaked with dark brown ; afew feathers under the 
eye and on fore part of cheeks black; throat and breast buffy white, 
the feathers mesially streaked with dark brown and washed with 
sandy rufous ; the lower breast sandy rufous, with fulvous tips; the 
abdomen, thighs, and under tail-coverts barred with fulvous and 
sandy rufous, the latter with dark brown ; under wing-coverts fulvous, 
mottled with rufous or rufous brown; the lower ones brown at tips, 
like under surface of wing. (Sharpe, Oat. B. I, p. 49.) 
Fig. Temm. Pl. Col. 307. 
* Mr. Gurney writes :—“It should be noted that these bars are narrower in 
the old female (= P. maleazii of Verreaux) than in the male.” 
