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Rump and upper tail-coverts buff, barred narrowly with black. 

 Lesser wing-coverts pale vinous at base, then a narrow line of white 

 followed by a broader one of pale chestnut, and then a narrow line 

 of yellow, and tipped with pale chestnut. Some of the outer 

 larger wing-coverts were like those just described ; but the inner 

 ones are dark, have the base dark ash, then rich yellow, and narrowly 

 bordered with black. Inner secondaries rufous at base, barred 

 with black, tipped with pale green, and a conspicuous yellow spot 

 in the centre. Rest of secondaries pale yellowish -green, with 

 yellow on their outer webs near the tips. Primaries ashy grey, 

 7nargined on inner webs with white ; the secondaries and tertiaries 

 inclined to buff along the shaft on inner webs ; shafts black. Tail- 

 feathers buff, barred with black and tipped with white ; the two 

 central ones entirely black on their apical half, are extremely 

 narrow, and extend far beyond the other rectrices. Under tail- 

 coverts buff, barred with black, and tipped with white. Feathers of 

 the tarsi white. Bill horn-brown. Bare space around the eye lead- 

 colour ; iris dark brown. 



Total length 13^ inches, wing 8, tail to end of longest rectrices 

 6, bill along gape y^. 



Female. Top of head and back of neck deep buff, barred with 

 black. Sides of face and neck orange- yellow. Chin and throat 

 white. A black band around the lower part of neck, but not 

 extending onto the back of the neck, beneath which is a broad 

 light chestnut band bordered above and below with black as in the 

 male. Entire underparts pure white. Upper parts buff, narrowly 

 barred with black. Wing-coverts buff, barred with black, and with 

 a grey spot on inner web near tip, this spot on some of the 

 greater coverts being enlarged into a bar crossing the feathers near 

 the tip. Secondaries buff, barred with black, and having a sub- 

 terminal grey bar. Primaries like those of the males. Upper tail- 

 coverts yellowish buff, irregularly barred with black. Rectrices like 

 those of the male. Bill horn-colour. 



Total length 13 inches, wing 7f, tail 5|, bill at gape ■§■. 



9. Pterocles namao.ua. 



Namaqua Grous, Lath. Gen. Syn. B. (1783), vol. ii. pt. 2, p. 750 ; 

 id. Suppl. p. 215 ; id. Gen. Hist. B. vol. viii. (1823) p. 251. 



Tetrao namaqua, Gmel. Syst. Nat. (1788) vol. i. p. 754; Lath. 

 Ind. Orn. vol. ii. p. 642, sp. 19; Sparrm. Voy. vol. i. p. 153; Bonnat. 

 Enc. Moth. (1790) torn. ii. p. 204. 



Pterocles tachypetes, Temm. Pig. et Gall. (1815) pp. 274, 715 ; 

 Wagl. Syst. Av. (1827), Pterocles, sp. 7; Less. Trait. Ornith. (1831) 

 p. 517,sp.7; Layard, B. S. Afr. (1867)p. 277; Ayres, Ibis (1871) 

 p. 262. 



(Enas namaqua, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. (1817) vol. xii. 

 p. 422. 



Pterocles simplex, Less. Trait. Ornith. (1831) p. 517. 



Pterocles namaqua, Gray, Gen. B. vol. iii. p. 518 ; Bocage, Journ. 

 i'iir Ornith. (1876) p. 303." 



