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p. 514 Zuht ; Shelley, t. c. p. 527 Nyasa ; Reichen. J. f. 0. 1897, 

 p. 42 Togo; Jackson, Ibis, 1898, p. 136 Witw ; Shelley, t. c. pp. 379, 

 553 Nyasa; Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1898, p. 71 Shire; W. L. Sclater, 

 Ibis, 1899, p. 112 Inhambaiie ; Alexander, t. c. p. 563 Zambesi; 

 Jackson, t. c. p. 629 Karirondo, Kampala, Ntchi, Man ; Hartert iu 

 Ansorge's " Under Afr. Sun," p. 348 (1899) Unyoro ; Nehrkorn, Kat. 

 Eiers, p. 93 (1899) ajij ; Stark, Faun. S. Afr. i. p. 239 (1900); 

 Sharpe, Ibis, 1900, p. Ill Mosambique ; Marshall, t. c. p. 238 

 Mashoiia ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. 1901, p. 763 Scnegambia; 

 Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1901, p. 310 Niger. 



Macronyx flavigaster, Swains. B. W. Afr. i. p. 215 (1837) Senegal; 

 Fraser, P. Z. S. 1813, p. 51 Accra; Gordon, Contr. Orn. 1849, p. 10 

 Gold Coast. 



Macronyx striolatus, Heugl. J. f. O. 1863, p. 164 Gazelle II. ; Woodward, 

 Ibis, 1897, p. 411 Zulu ; 1900, p. 524 St. Lucia Lake. 



Adult male. Upper parts pale ashy or rufous brown with blackish 

 brown centres to the feathers of the crown and mantle ; wings dark brown 

 with rather broad pale edges to the feathers, of a tawny buff shade passing 

 into bright yellow towards the outer feathers ; under wing-coverts golden 

 yellow mottled with some black and white ; under surface of quills dusky 

 with faintly marked, broad, tawny buff inner edges; tail dark brown with 

 the end third of the four outer pairs of feathers white ; a broad yellow 

 eyebrow, remainder of the sides of the head and neck ashy brown fading 

 almost into white above the gape, and next to the black gorget which starts 

 from the gape and encircles the middle and lower throat ; chin and throat 

 bright golden yellow ; chest, abdomen, thighs and under tail-coverts golden 

 yellow with black shaft-stripes on the front and sides of the chest and the 

 flanks, which latter are partially pale tawny brown. Bill, upper mandible 

 dark brown, lower one grey; iris brown; legs stone colour. Total length 

 7-5 inches, culmen 07, wing 38, tail 3-2, tarsus 1-45, middle toe with claw 

 1-5, hind toe with claw 1-6. Pinetown, 3 , 16. 6. 75 (T. L. Ayres). 



Adult female. Exactly like the male in plumage. Total length 7-2 

 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 3-7, tail 3, tarsus 1-45. Pinetown, 2 , 21. 10. 75 

 (T. L. Ayres). 



hnmaturc. Differs from the adult in having the upper parts slightly 

 more rufous; eyebrow tawny buff; little or no white or black on the sides 

 of the head, neck and crop ; flanks and under tail coverts mostly pale 

 tawny buff with a few rather indistinct blackish shaft-stripes. Length in 

 the flesh 8-5 ; bill flesh colour shaded with dark brown on the tip and 

 culmen ; legs pale yellowish brown. Pinetown, ^ , 14. 3. 74 (Shelley). 



The Common Yellow-throated Long-claw inhabits Africa 

 south from the Senegal and Gazelle rivei-s and Somaliland, 

 avoiding the actual forest. 



