steel-blue ; lower part of the back and rump deep sienna ; upper tail-coverts black, sometimes 

 with reddish ends ; quills brownish black glossed with dull greenish blue ; tail-feathers brownish 

 black, glossed above with greenish steel-blue, all the feathers except the centre ones having a 

 large white spot on the inner web ; underneath fulvous white, profusely marked with broad 

 longitudinal stripes of dark brown ; under tail-coverts white with rufous streaks ; under wing- 

 coverts deeper fulvous ; bill black ; feet dark brown : " iris umber " [J. S. Jameson) . Total 

 length 7-8 inches, culmen 0'3, wing 4'2, tail 4'8, tarsus 0'5. 



Yoimg (type of H. korthalsi, Bp.) . General colour above dull blue-black ; wing-coverts and quills dusky 

 blackish with a sbght gloss of blue-black, all the coverts and quills with an obsolete tip of sandy 

 rufous, much broader on the inner secondaries ; lower back and rump pale rufous ; upper tail- 

 coverts blue-black, with sandy rufous tips ; tail-feathers blackish, with a gloss of blue-black, the 

 outer feathers only a little elongated, the two outermost with a long patch of white on the inner 

 web ; crown of head dusky blackish, with sandy margins to all the feathers ; nape, hind neck, 

 and sides of neck pale sandy rufous ; lores ashy ; sides of face and ear-coverts dull sandy rufous ; 

 cheeks and under surface of body whitish, broadly streaked with dusky blackish on the throat and 

 breast, the streaks becoming much narrower on the abdomen and being absent on the under tail- 

 coverts, which are entirely white ; flanks and sides of body washed with pale sandy rufous ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries uniform pale sandy rufous, the small coverts near the edge of the wing 

 mottled with blackish bases ; quills dusky below, more ashy along the inner web. Total length 

 5 inches, culmen 0'3, wing 3'85, tail 2'2, tarsus 0'45 {Mus LvgcL). 



Hab. South-eastern Africa, extending to the Zambesi on the east and to Benguela and the Congo on the 

 west. Throughout Eastern Africa to Abyssinia, reoccurring on the Gold Coast. 



Young birds can always be told by the want of the long outer tail-feathers, the rufous tips to the wing- 

 coverts and inner secondaries, the remains of rufous margins to the dorsal feathers, and the 

 distinct rufous tips to the upper tail-coverts ; the head is also blackish with tawny rufous edges 

 to the feathers ; the streaks on the under surface are also more dusky and less distinct. 



The following are the measurements of some of the specimens in the British Museum : — 



Total length. Wing. Tail, 



in. in. in. 



a. Ad. Cape Coast [Dr. Gordon) 5'7 4-0 2'85 



h. Ad. „ [H. T. Ussher) 6-1 3-95 3-3 



c. Ad. „ „ 5-9 3-9 2-9 



d. Ad. „ (G. E. Shelleij) .5-9 3-9 2-9 



e. Ad. „ „ 6-7 3-9 39 



/. (5' ad. „ „ 6-0 4-0 3-2 



g. Ad. „ [T. E. Buckley) 6-0 3-85 3-2 



h. Ad. Landana, Congo (L. Petit) 6-5 4-15 3-6 



-t. (J ad. „ „ „ 6'2 4-05 3-45 



_;'. Ad. Kingwilliamstown {H. Trevclyan) 5'.5 4"15 2"3 



A-. c? ad. Pinetown, Natal (r. L. ^yrcs) 60 4-2 2-15 



/. (J ad. Durban, Natal „ 6-8 4-35 3-85 



m. Ad. Natal 7-3 4T5 4-65 



n. Ad. Natal {Mus. Jardine) 7-0 4-25 3-7 



