Farn. Otididae. — 940 — Gen. Otis. 



Ann. & Mag. of nat. hist. 1852. (Coli. Petherick) p. 348. — Gray, 

 Handl. III. p. 7. — Otis caffra, p. Schleg\ Cat. Curs. p. 7. — 0. 

 caffra. p. Rüpp. Mus. Senkenb. II. p. 220. (Syn. Otis Denhami, Bar- 

 low, Denh. Reis. Paris 1826. III. p. 238.) — O. Denhami, Temm. 

 PI. col. fasc. 97. — Child. Denh. Reisen, (Weimar 1827.) p. 684. 



— Oubura, ibid. p. 278. — Heugl. Cab. Journ. 1864. p. 272. — 

 Eupodotis Denhami, Rchb. Hühnervög. t. CCLVIII. f. 2184.— 2185. 



— Otis Denhami, Bocage, Av. das posses. porfc. V. p. 11. Nr. 61. — 

 0, Denhami, Heugl. Cab. Journ. 1867. p. 302. — Pr. Wurttemb. 

 Icon. ined. t. 68. (32.) — Less. Complem. de Buff. II. p. 249. — 

 Otis rtißcollis, Mus. Par. — Chariotis arabs, Antin. (nee Lin.) Cat. 

 p. 95. — Salvad. Rivist. Cat. Antin. (Atti della R. Ac. Sc. di Tor. 

 vol. V. 1870) p. 746. — Otis caffra, Heugl. Syst. Hebers. Nr. 551. 

 (not.) — Otis Denhami, Heugl. Peterm. Geogr. Mitth. 1860. p. 31. 

 & 1869. p. 413. — Hartl. W. Afr. Nr. 598. 



Similis O.caffrae; minor; rostro, cauda pedibusque longioribus, 

 gracilioribus ; regione nuda tibiali multo magis extensa; torquis 

 jugularis plumis valde elongatis, densis, truncato-apicatis, etiam 

 lateraliter cinereis (nee albis) ; nucha cinnamomea (nee cinerea) ; 

 colli postici colore delicate cinnamomeo (nee laete rufo) , antici 

 pallide cinereo (nee saturate cano). Pileo, nnchaque fusco-nigris, Stria 

 lata supraoculari, ad nuebam usque porrecta ; altera mediana ver- 

 ticali albidis, area verticali magis fulvescente-adumbrata.et delicatis- 

 sime nigro-punctulata ; antiis cinerascentibus ; loris superioribus 

 sordide rufescentibus ; fusco-striolatis ; loris inferioribiis ; genis, mento 

 gulaque superiore albidis, genis partim delicate fasciatim fnsce 

 irroratis; regione parotica colloque laterali delicate cinereis; nucha 

 anchenioque pulchre cinnamomeis; collo antico pallide fulvescente- 

 cinci\ o, sordidealbide-fasciolato ; juguli plumis decompositis et valde 

 elongatis, purius cinereis, colore pallide fusco et sordide albido 

 obsolete fasciolatis ; stragalo, alae tectrieibus minoribus, tertiariis 

 rectricumque '/i medianarum apice in fundo fusco delicatissime 

 fulve irroratis et vermiculatis; remigibus primariis extimis atris, 

 intus, basin versus, albis, hinc partim atro-irroratis, rcliquis albis, 

 fascia lata anteapicali nigricante; seeundariis nigris, intus, basin 

 versus, apice pogoniique interni faseiis 1 — 2 albis, hinc partim 

 fusco-adspeisis; alae tectrieibus medianis nigris, in basi et apice 



