OTIS 307 



Major Sparrow tells me that he found two nests of this bird^ 

 in the Orange River Colony at Linana near Winburg on August 21st 

 and near Lindley on December 17th. In each case there were two 

 eggs found, of a pale brown colour, with a greenish tinge streaked 

 with darker; they measured about 2 - 4 x 1'6. 



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 700. Otis barroYJri. Barrow's Knorhaan. 



Otis barrovii, /. E. Gray, in Griffiths A. K. viii, p. 304 (1829) ; Shelley, 



B. Afr. i, p. 186 (1896) ; Eeichenow, Vog. Afr. i, p. 250 (1900). 

 Eupodotis senegalensis (nee VieilL), Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 285 (1867) ; 



Gurney, Ibis, 1868, p. 48 [Natal] ; Ayres, Ibis, 1869, p. 298, 1880, 



p. 265 ; Holub <& Pelz., Orn. Siid-Afr. p. 239 (1882) ; Bryden, Gun 



and Camera, p. 481 (1893). 

 Eupodotis caerulescens (nee VieilL), Butler, Feilden and Beid, Zool. 



1882, p. 340. 

 Otis senegalensis, Sharpe, ed. Layard s B. S. Afr. p. 639 (1884) ; 



Millais, Breath from the Veldt, 2nd ed., p. 54, figured as " Vaal 



Knorhaan" (1899). 

 Trachelotis barrovii, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xxiii, p. 311 (1894) ; Oates, 



Cat. B. Eggs, ii, p. 367 (1902) ; Mitchell, P. Z. S., 1904, i, p. 4. 



Description. Adult Male. Crown and occiput slaty-blue, sur- 

 rounded by a line of black more or less conspicuous ; the feathers 

 somewhat elongated and erectile, forming a crest ; chin, sides of 

 the face, including lores, eyebrows and ear-coverts white ; below 

 this, across the throat, is a transversely elongated black band which 

 almost touches posteriorly the black feathers of the crest ; hind- 

 neck tawny-rufous ; back and wings freckled black and sandy-rufous 

 with a tendency to form transverse bands on the longer secondaries ; 

 wing-coverts tawny without freckling ; primary coverts and wing- 

 quills black; the former tawny at their bases, the latter with 

 patches of tawny, fading to white on the inner webs of the inner 

 primaries and outer secondaries; tail feathers tawny at the base, 

 black at the tip except the centre ones, which are freckled pale 

 rufous and black with two narrow transverse bands ; below the 

 fore-neck and chest are slaty-blue with a patch of tawny 011 either 

 side, the rest of the lower surface, including the under wing-coverts, 

 axillaries and quill-lining is white. All over the back of this bird is 

 a slight pink iridescence. 



Iris light brown ; bill yellowish, dusky on the culmen ; legs and 

 feet yellowish-white. 



Length about 21-0; wing 11-5; tail 5*0; tarsus 3*4 ; culmen 1-3. 



