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suala,” as well as from Biballa in Mossamedes, where it is called 
“ Kitiapi;’ he has also met with it at Caconda in Benguela. He 
states that it is common all over the country visited by him. 
Adult male.—Head and neck grey ; a narrow frontal band, lores, 
feathers round the eye and ear-coverts, black, separated from the 
erey crown by an indistinct line of whitish across the forehead and 
over the eye; mantle and back rufous, duller on the lower back, 
the rump and upper tail-coverts dull grey ; scapulars rufous, like 
the back; wing-coverts blackish, broadly bordered with rufous ; 
primary-coverts blackish, with indistinct narrow margins of rufous ; 
quills brown, narrowly edged with pale rufous, the innermost 
secondaries almost entirely of the latter colour; primaries white at 
the base, forming an indistinct alar speculum ; four centre tail- 
feathers blackish narrowly tipped with white, the four outer 
feathers on each side white with black shafts, and haying a broad 
subterminal band of black, the tips of all the feathers conspicuously 
white; cheeks and sides of face and throat whitish with a pink 
gloss; rest of under surface of body light pink, much deeper on 
the sides of the body; vent and under tail-coverts white; thighs 
ereyish ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white with ashy-grey 
bases, the outermost of the greater series ashy-grey, forming an 
indistinct patch; quills dusky brown below, edged with very pale 
rufous along the inner web; bill black; feet black; iris hazel 
brown. Total length, 6-5 inches; culmen, 0°6; wing, 3°65; tail, 3:0; 
tarsus, 0°9. 
Adult female—General colour above reddish brown, slightly 
ashy on the hind neck, and more decidedly rufous on the scapulars ; 
wing-coverts, dark brown with very broad rufous edgings; quills, 
dark brown, narrowly edged with pale rufous, more broadly on the 
secondaries; no alar speculum ; lower back and rump dull ashy 
brown, the upper tail-coverts rufous, mottled with a subterminal 
line of black and obscurely tipped with fulvous ; tail-feathers brown, 
slightly marked with rufous, all of them narrowly tipped with 
fulyous, before which are generally some obscure dusky lines, the 
outermost feather dull white for the extent of the outer web; a 
frontal line, lores, and a broad eyebrow, buffy white, slightly 
mottled with dusky tips to the feathers ; round the eye a ring of 
dull buff plumes ; ear-coverts rufous; cheeks and under surface of 
body, dull white, mottled with circular lines of dull brown on the 
