514 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
from Mr. T. C. Atmore. We have seen a specimen from Little 
Namaqua Land, and Mr. Andersson writes :—“ This species is 
pretty generally diffused over Damara and Great Namaqua Land ; 
it frequents localities covered with grass and dwarf vegetation, and 
frequently those which are of a rocky character.” 
Adult. — Above dark brown, the feathers tolerably broadly 
margined with sandy fulvous, getting lighter on the extreme edge 
of the feather, the lower back and rump ashy brown, more uniform, 
or having only a few central streaks of dark brown on the lower 
back ; head rather lighter brown than the rest of the upper surface, 
the dark brown central streaks rather narrower ; hind neck inclining 
to ashy fulvous and minutely streaked with dark brown; wing- 
coverts dark brown, somewhat shaded with ashy and rather broadly 
margined with sandy fulvous on the median and lesser coverts, the 
greater series margined with ashy, but without such distinct edges 
of sandy buff as the other series; quills brown, narrowly tipped and 
margined on the outer web with sandy white, the secondaries 
distinctly shaded with grey ; upper tail-coverts ashy brown shaded 
with sandy and streaked with dark brown down the centres of the 
longest feathers ; tail-feathers dark brown margined with ashy grey, 
the penultimate feather narrowly, and the outermost a little more 
broadly margined and tipped with sandy white or fulvous; lores, 
feathers above and below the eye, as well as a streak running along 
the sides of the crown fulyous white, but not forming a distinct eye- 
brow; cheeks fulvous white, minutely spotted with blackish brown ; 
ear-coverts dark brown streaked with sandy buff; under surface 
of body dull yellowish white, the throat very slightly spotted with 
blackish brown, of which colour there is a moustachial line on each 
side; the breast thickly and distinctly streaked with blackish brown, 
gradually narrowing on the lower breast and sides of abdomen to 
hair-like lines; belly, vent, and under tail-coverts unspotted ; flanks 
ashy brown streaked with dark brown; under wing-coverts pale 
ashy brown narrowly margined with sandy white, the outer feathers 
near the bend of the wing sandy white spotted with brown, the 
centres of the feathers being of this colour; “ upper mandible horn 
colour, the lower one buff shading into dark horn colour towards 
the tip; legs pale brown; iris brown” (Shelley). Total length, 
6:8 inches; culmen, 0°75; wing, 4°0; tail, 2°75; tarsus, 1-0. 
Young.—Duller and more uniform brown than the adult, with 
whitish edgings to the feathers of the crown, ear-coverts, and the 
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