456 STRUTHIONID^E. 



and upper tail-coverts, pale chestnut brown, streaked irre- 

 gularly with numerous narrow lines of black ; all the wing- 

 coverts, and the base of the primaries, white, the distal half 

 of the primaries greyish black; the secondaries patched 

 with black and white ; the base of the tail-feathers white, 

 the ends mottled with black and buffy white, crossed with 

 two narrow bars of black, the extreme tips white ; the 

 breast, and all the under surface of the body, white ; legs, 

 toes, and claws, clay -brown. 



The whole length is about seventeen inches. From the 

 carpal joint to the end of the wing, nine inches and three- 

 quarters ; the first quill-feather almost an inch shorter 

 than the second, which in the male described was as long 

 as the third, and both longer than the fourth, the second 

 and third being the longest in the wing. 



The males that are killed in the winter half-year have 

 the feathers of the neck of pale chestnut streaked with 

 black, like the same part in the female, which does not 

 change with the season. 



The adult female is of the same size as the male, and 

 has the head and neck mottled and streaked with black on 

 a ground of pale chestnut ; the chin white ; the neck below 

 without any appearance of transverse bars at any season ; 

 the wing-coverts have less white than those of the males ; 

 the white feathers on the breast, sides, and flanks, are 

 marked with short transverse bars of black. Females in 

 other respects resemble the males. 



