164 LANIADA. 
Senegal and the Cape of Good Hope, from which latter 
country specimens have also been recently brought by Dr. 
Smith. 
The adult male has a beak of shining black, with a con- 
spicuous tooth and notch near the point of the upper 
mandible, which is curved; the feathers at the base of 
the beak, those of the lore, around the eye, and those 
forming the ear-coverts, black; the irides hazel brown ; 
all the upper part of the head and the neck grey ; back 
and wing-coverts fine chesnut red ; upper tail-coverts grey, 
tinged with red; wing-primaries dusky black, edged with 
red on the outer web; secondaries and tertials the same, 
but with broader red margins; upper surface of the tail- 
feathers with the proximal half white, the distal half 
black, just tipped with white; the shafts black; the two 
middle tail-feathers, which are longest, are wholly black 
except the tips, which are white; the outer tail-feather 
on each side about three-eighths of an inch shorter than the 
others. The chin is nearly white; all the under surface 
of the body very pale red; under tail-coverts white ; 
under surface of the tail-feathers like the upper surface, 
but the colours less pure; legs, toes, and claws, black. 
The length of the adult male is about seven inches and a 
half; length of wing from the carpal joint to the end of 
the longest feather, three inches and seven-eighths; the 
first feather of the wing less than half the length of the 
second, the second nearly as long as the fourth, the third 
feather the longest in the wing. 
The adult female has the beak dark brown; irides 
hazel, as in the male; no black about the head, but a 
light-coloured streak over the eye ; the whole of the upper 
surface of the head and body reddish brown; wings like 
those of the male, but the rufous margins narrower ; upper 
