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PLOCEID^] 



COLIOPASSER 



buff; the primaries lighter brown with narrow lighter margins ; tail- 

 feathers brown edged with sandy-buff ; crown rufous-brown streaked 

 with black ; eyebrow buff ; under surface of body dull white ; the 

 breast, sides and flanks streaked with brown ; axillaries and under 

 wing-coverts black. 



Coliopasser procne, Male in breeding dress. From Distants' " Naturalist in 

 the Transvaal" (by permission of the publishers). 



Length 7'00 ; wing 4-40 ; tail 3-40; tarsus 1-20 ; culmen O70. 

 Young male. Differs from the female in being more streaked on 

 the chest. 



Distribution. Eastern Cape Colony, Natal, Zululand, the 



