232 SENEGAL COURIER. 



descriptions of his C. Asiaticus, var. A, found in 

 Persia, and of his Collared Courier*, cannot be re- 

 conciled with any of the above. 



The short specific character of this species already 

 given, will, with the following additions, sufficiently 

 discriminate it. The front and all the upper part 

 of the head is uniform rufous; there is a broad 

 band of the same, but rather brighter across the 

 middle of the body, which blends into the fawn- 

 colour of the breast, throat, and upper part of the 

 plumage; the rufous of the body ends in a deep 

 black, central, and rather lengthened spot; the 

 belly, flanks, and under tail-covers are pure white ; 

 the greater quills are deep black, the lesser rather 

 browner, the six last being obliquely tipt with 

 white; the chin and lores are white; there is a 

 double nuchal collar, the upper is of white but the 

 lower is of black, under the eyes, and in some spe- 

 cimens there seems to be a narrow line of black 

 bordering the upper part of the white band ; the tail 

 is even, the two middle feathers of the same colour 

 as the back, and without any spots whatever ; the 

 rest have a spot of white at the tip, with a black 

 band before it ; the outermost feather alone has the 

 outer web entirely white, with the black spot almost 

 obsolete. 



Total length about 7 inches; bill, from the 

 front, Jg ; gape, 1 ; wings, 5 ; tail, base, 2; tarsus, 

 1 \ ; middle toe and claw, ^ ; naked space above 

 the tarsus* T 8 Q. 



* General History of Birds, ix. 354. 



