PETRONIA FLAVIGULA. 260 



procured two specimens at Shendi on the Nile, which is the 

 most northern locality yet known for this species, and they 

 remark : " This was a rare bird at Shendi ; besides the 

 specimens obtained we saw no others. They were found at 

 the top of a tall acacia tree on the west bank of the Nile, and 

 when the first was shot the second flew to tlie gfrounrj and 

 pecked its dead mate most savagely." 



Petronia flavigala. (PI. 28, fig. 2.) 



Xanthodira flavigula, Sundev. (Efv. K. Vet. Ak. Forh. Stockh. 18.50, p. 98, 



Transvaal,- Eeichen. J. f. O. 1887, pp. 72, 30.5 Usiire, Leopold v ilk ; 



Sousa, .Torn. Lish. 1886, p. 167 Caconda ; 1888, p. 228 Qnindumbo. 

 Petronia flavigula, Reichen. Vog. Deutsch 0. Afr. p. 195 (1891) Kakoma, 



Igonda ; Stielley, B. Afr. I. No. 255 (1896) ; id. Ibis, 1898, p. 379 ; 



1899, p. 282 Zomha ; Alexander, t. c. p. 5G4 Zambesi. 

 Petronia petronella, Bp. Consp. i. p. 513 (1850) S. Afr. ; Sharps, Cat. B. 



M. xii. p. 297 (1888) Damara, Cape Col. Natal, Tete ; Shelley, Ibis, 



1893, p. 27; 1894, p. 22 Zo?nba; Marshall, Ibis, 1896, p. 2iG Mashona; 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1897, p. 513 Zulu; Marshall, Ibis,1900, p. 239 Mashona; 



Stark, Faun. S. Afr. B. i. p. 157 (1900) ; Ivy, Ibis, 1901, p. 19 nest. 

 Xanthodira dentata (nee. Sundev.) Cab. J. f. O. 1878, p. 229 Ndl ; Bohiii, 



.1. f. 0. 1883, p. 201 ; Schalow, t. c. p. 364 Kakoma; Bohm. J. f. 0. 



1885, p. 60 Gouda. 



Adult. Upper parts brown, rather darker on the crown, and mottled 

 with blackish brown on the mantle ; a broad whitish eyebrow extending back 

 from the front of the eye. Wings darkish brown ; the paler edges to the 

 feathers broaden out into whitish ends on the median and greater coverts, 

 and form two ill-defined bands on the wings; quills with narrow pale rufous- 

 tinted edges; their under surface brown, with narrow pale inner edges to 

 the quills, and the coverts pale brown, partially mottled with white. Tail 

 dark brown with obsolete narrow whitish edges. Under parts very pale 

 brown, passing into white on the chin, upper throat, centre of breast and 

 under tail-coverts, and into dark brown between the ear-coverts and the 

 eyebrow ; a distinct pale yellow patch between the base of the white throat 

 and the crop. "Iris umber brown; bill dusky brown, with the under 

 mandible pale ; tarsi and feet dusky ash." Total length 60 inches, culmen 

 0'55, wing 3-5, tail 25, tarsus 0-75. 2. 7. 84. Pinetown (T. L. Ayres). 



Young. Similar to the adult, but without the yellow throat spot. J , 

 26. 10. Pinetown (T. L. Ayres). 



