290 OTIDS! OTIS 



a?. Quill-lining black O. afra, 2 , p- 292. 



6'. Quill-lining white 0. afroides, ? , p. 294. 



6. Beneath slaty-blue throughout 0. ccsrulescens, p. 805. 



c. Beneath whitish. 



a'. Head and neck mottled grey, like the 

 back. 

 a^. Throat black, but no black on the 



gape or ear-coverts 0. vigorsi, p. 296. 



b^. Throat, a spot at the gape and 



another behind the ear all black ... 0. rueppelU, p. 298. 

 &'. Head and neck mottled ; back with con- 

 spicuous black centres to the feathers 0. melanogaster, ? , p. 302. 

 c'. Neck rufous, with a slaty-blue patch 



in front ; crown slaty-blue 0. barrotvi, p. 307. 



690. Otis ruficrista. Bed-crested Enorhaan. 



Otis ruficrista, Smith, Bep. Exped. Centr. Afr. p. 56 (1836) ; id. III. 

 Zool. 8. Afr. Aves, pi. 4 (1838) ; Sharpe ed. Layard's, B. 8. Afr. 

 pp. 639, 854 (1884) ; Flech, Journ. Ornith., 1894, p. 385 ; Bryden, 

 Nat. and Sport, p. 44 (1897) ; Millais, Breath from the Veldt, 2nd ed., 

 pp. 49, 78, 82, with sketches (1899) ; Beichenow, Vog. Afr. i, p. 252 

 (1900). 



Eupodotis ruficrista, Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 286 (1867) ; Ayres, Ibis, 

 1871, p. 263, 1880, p. 110, 1886, p. 293 ; Gurney, in Andersson's, B. 

 Bamaral. p. 259 (1872) ; BucUey, Ibis, 1874, p. 386 ; Shelley, Ibis, 

 1882, p. 361 [Rhodesia] ; Bryden, Gun Sf Camera, pp. 155, 479 

 (1893) ; Eirby, Haunts of Wild Game, p. 560 (1896). 



Lophotis ruficrista, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xxiii, p. 291 (1894) ; Dates, Cat. 

 B. Eggs, ii, p. 365 (1902). 



Afrotis ruficrista, Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 184 (1896). 



" Bush Knorhaan," in Bechuanaland. 



Description. Adult Male. — General colour a rufous - brown, 

 mottled with paler and darker brown ; most of the feathers with 

 dark brown and V-shaped paler sandy-rufous markings ; crown of 

 the head and a patch from the base of the beak to below the 

 eye slaty-blue, cheeks and throat white, the latter with a central 

 band of black ; a tuft of decomposed feathers on the nape of a 

 vinous red colour, forming a crest ; ear-coverts fulvous, neck ashy, 

 becoming pale slaty blue on the chest ; wings like the back, some 

 of the outer coverts pure white ; primary quills and the greater part 

 of the primary coverts black, slightly mottled with white ; tail 

 feathers like the back but more finely mottled, with a sub-terminal 

 band of black, which, on the outer feathers, becomes terminal ; 



