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arrow shaped, blackish spots ; belly white, flanks tinted with 

 pale rufous yellow. Length 5 inches. Inhabits the country 

 north of Kurrichaine. 



Genus PTEROCLES. Temm. 



Pterocles variegatus, Burch, (male). Front black; eyebrows, 

 sides of head, and chin, light grey; general character of 

 the plumage given by Burchell* in his description of the 

 female. Inhabits the country between Latakoo and the 

 Tropic. 



Pterocles gutturalis. Top of head brown, tinted with honey 

 yellow ; nape and sides of neck of the latter colour ; back, 

 shaded rusty grey, lavender purple, and honey yellow, the 

 feathers towards quills blackish ; eyebrows white ; space 

 between eye and bill black ; chin and part of throat straw 

 yellow, behind the latter a half collar of black ; belly, vent, 

 and under tail coverts, deep reddish brown ; wing coverts 

 pale gall-stone yellow. Length 11J inches. Inhabits the 

 country to the north and south of Kurrichaine. 



Genus OTIS. Lin. 



Otis ruficrista. Head above rusty grey-blue ; eyebrows, space 

 in front of eyes, and the occiput, rusty white, mottled with 

 brown, the latter with a pale chesnut crest of fine silky 

 feathers; interscapulars, scapulars, and the lesser wing coverts, 

 variegated pale rufous and brown, each feather with one or 

 more arrow-shaped, buff coloured spots ; chin white, with a 

 longitudinal black stripe ; neck blue-grey, above freckled 

 with white ; ears, and a spot in front of each shoulder, white; 

 quills dark black-brown, some of them partially crossed by 

 buff coloured bands; tail rounded, centre feathers with 

 zigzag black and white lines, lateral ones green-black 

 towards quills, with waved white lines. Length 20 inches. 

 Inhabits the country between Latakoo and the Tropic. 



Otis Afraoides. Crown brown, clouded with grey, and edged 

 with white ; ears, bar in front of interscapulars, shoulders, 

 and a longitudinal band on each wing, white ; neck and 

 under parts shining black ; interscapulars and scapulars 

 variegated with rufous yellow and black transverse lines ; 

 wing feathers black, the inner vanes of the primaries and the 

 outer vanes of some of the secondaries, white towards quills ; 

 tail rounded, the middle feathers finely barred black and 

 rufous yellow, the lateral ones blue-grey, with waved black 

 lines and a broad black bar towards points, all the feathers 

 tipt with white. Length 19 inches. Inhabits the country 

 between the Sneuwbergen and Kurrichaine. 



* Travels in South Africa, vol. 2, p. 345. 

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