HYPARGOS NIVEIGUTTATUS 241 
Adult male. Forehead and crown dusky brown, passing into cinnamon- 
shaded brown on the hind neck, back and wings; rump and upper tail- 
coverts bright crimson; tail black, strongly washed with crimson on the 
outer webs of the feathers; quills, with the exception of the outer edges, 
dark brown above and the under side dusky, with their inner edges white ; 
under wing-coverts white, with a portion on the pinion dusky ; sides of head 
and neck and the entire throat crimson; remainder of the under parts jet 
black, thickly marked with large round white twin-spots on the feathers of 
the flanks. Bill slaty black; iris brown; tarsi and feet reddish brown. 
Total length 4:9 inches, culmen 0:45, wing 2-2, tail 2°0, tarsus 0°65. ¢g, 
17. 9. 98. Mapicuti (Cavendish). 
Adult female. Differs from the male in haying the sides of the head 
dusky brown; chin and throat pale sandy brown, strongly washed on the 
middle and lower throat as well as on the sides of the neck with crimson ; 
dark portion of breast dusky grey ; the white spots with narrow black edges. 
Total length 4:8 inches, culmen 0°45, wing 2:2, tail 2:0, tarsus 0°65. 2, 
8. 2.02. Kilimanjaro (Percival). 
Variety, probably a cage-bird. Similar to male above described, but 
differs in having only six white spots on one side and a single one on the 
other side, the centre feathers of the breast have some faintly marked broad 
crimson edges. Hast Africa (Leadbeater). 
Peters’ Twin-spot ranges over the eastern half of Africa, 
from Inhambane to the Equator. 
The species was discovered by the late Dr. Peters at 
Inhambane, and has since been met with in that locality by 
Mr. H. F. Francis, who writes: “It frequents thick under- 
growth and apparently finds its food among the leaves on 
the ground, as it is generally seen scratching about there.” 
Further north, along the Mozambique coast, Mr. Cavendish 
found it at Mapicuti, and according to Dr. Stuhlmann it is 
known to the natives at Quilimane as the ‘“‘ Natandolia.” 
Mr. Boyd Alexander procured a single specimen at Tete 
and regarded it as a rare bird along the Zambesi. It is, 
however, apparently abundant in Nyasaland, from whence 
there are twelve specimens from different places in the British 
Museum, and is known in Angoniland, according to Gen 
Manning, as the “ Chipalanganga.” In its western range it 
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