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the breast; flanks and thighs washed with rufous; under tail-covert, 

 buffy white; under wing-coverts deep rufous; inner hnin g of win' 

 ashy brown, inclining to rufous on the inner web ; « uX^ml dib if 

 deep brownish red, lower mandible deep sienna-velZ w7 

 andci Ie b ff tinged with^Sd^'iM? 



"ins dark brown" (Jvres) f otol Ipn^H, ^-i • u . * mttA >' 



mug 2-85, toil 2% toS OO. le " gth 5 3 mches ' olUme ° M, 



Jit .arst' 0-J° ta ' le " g,h 5 '° in ° hes ' ralm » °' 5 . "'»« 2-85. 



Tratva„ EaStem P °" i0Q8 ° f the Ci "> e C °'°»* "«S>"8 ^ the 



Sir Andrew Smith, in describing thp t^no oc „ i 

 follows:_«A second adult spTJefof^ s^cL^s' Sue" 

 bu its sex was not recorded. In size it was ratLr superior to S 

 male specimen just described ; and the feathers of the Z I parts a 

 broadly edged with a colour intermediate between orpiment fnd red 

 dish orange: the latter colour on the breast is also much darker in 

 other respects the two are similar." " m 



Both specimens referred to by Sir Andrew are in H, *.n <• 

 still ; and the one I have described is the « W™ bird bnt „' ,1 

 be seen by the measurements, the difference i^Le ^ more anp r" 

 than real, as the specimen is a little overstuffed apparent 



I have not yet seen the winter plumage of this bird, and have nnlv 

 one male specimen in my collection, sexed by Mr Ttmnl „ { 

 measuring 2-95 in the wing and 0-9 in the tarsus. ' " d 



Specimens examined. 



offpS)** -"■ l - * ad - Sou,h AWc » (» *■ S'»k, tJpes 



AfL7T: C R M„or%:-"' * " d - ™*~ Fl »"- So«h-eas t 

 Emus.H.B. Tri»tram:-a, <J. Transvaal (Ayra). 



17. MlRAFRA SABOTA. 



7^ rC t a J aho l a ' S , ith ' Re P- Ex P- s - Afr - App. p. 4*7; id 111 

 Zool S Afr. ^m., pi. 89. fig. 2 (1849, err. proL 1). ' ' 



Megalophomis sabota, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 382 0844V Bn 

 Consp , p. 244 (1850); Layard, B. S. AfV. p 213 (1867 ev 

 Smith); Gray, Hand-1. B. ii. p. 122 (1870) U 



MeWo^ OW5 c^™« WW5 , Gray, Hand-1. B. ii. p. 122 (1870) 



Megalophonus ncevius, Ayres, Ibis, 1871 p 259 



^JWa *a6 ta, Giebel, Thes. Orn. p. 300 (1872) 



-4/awcfo w^ia, Buckley, Ibis, 1874 p 283 



cen^f^^ 



he head, which appears in consequence rather darker than the back 



ted £ SfEg WaSh6d With aS > fuIvous ' sI ^tly separat g 

 uie head from the back ; wing-coverts dark brown in the centre with 

 broad lawn-coloured margins, shading off on the ext erne ed^Tnto 

 fulvous, the edge of the wing whiti.h, and the primary coverts dull 



