556 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
dull brown rump and the narrow bars which are seen in the throat. 
Dr. Schalow has separated the bird from Natal as a smaller race. 
Above cinerous, with a tinge of glossy greenish-brown on the 
wings and tail, lightest on the head, which is crested ; under part of 
throat and chest cinereous, minutely striated with brown; centre of 
belly dirty yellow, inclining to rufous on the vent; inner surface 
of wing rufous; tail long, and graduated ; upper mandible black, 
and much curved; lower one light horn-colour ; feet horn-colour. 
Length, 13”; wing, 4” 10”; tail, 9”; tarsus, 11’”; bill, 6”. 
Fig. Le Vaill. Ois. d’Afr. vi. pl. 256. 
