1 74 LANIAD^!. 



Egypt and North Africa, is included by Le Vaillant among 

 the birds of Senegal and the Cape of Good Hope, from 

 which latter country specimens have also been recently 

 brought by Dr. Smith. 



The adult male has a beak of shining black, with a con- 

 spicuous tooth and notch near the point of the upper 

 mandible, which is curved ; the feathers at the base of 

 the beak, those of the lore, around the eye, and those 

 forming the ear-coverts, black ; the irides hazel brown ; 

 all the upper part of the head and the neck grey ; back 

 and wing-coverts fine chestnut red ; upper tail-coverts grey, 

 tinged with red ; wing-primaries dusky black, edged with 

 red on the outer web ; secondaries and tertials the same, 

 but with broader red margins ; upper surface of the tail- 

 feathers with the proximal half white, the distal half 

 black, just tipped with white ; the shafts black ; the two 

 middle tail-feathers, which are longest, are wholly black 

 except the tips, which are white ; the outer tail-feather 

 on each side about three- eighths of an inch shorter than the 

 others. The chin is nearly white ; all the under surface 

 of the body very pale red ; under tail-coverts white ; 

 under surface of the tail-feathers like the upper surface, 

 but the colours less pure; legs, toes, and claws, black. 

 The length of the adult male is about seven inches and a 

 half; length of wing from the carpal joint to the end of 

 the longest feather, three inches and seven-eighths ; the 

 first feather of the wing less than half the length of the 

 second, the second nearly as long as the fourth, the third 

 feather the longest in the wing. 



The adult female has the beak dark brown ; irides 

 hazel, as in the male: no black about the head, but a 

 light-coloured streak over the eye ; the whole of the upper 

 surface of the head and body reddish brown ; wings like 

 those of the male, but the rufous margins narrower ; upper 



