OTID^ OTIS 307 



Major Sparrow tells me that he found two nests of this bird 

 in the Orange Eiver Colony at Linana near Winburg on August 21st 

 and near Lindley on December 17th. In each case there were two 

 eggs found, of a pale brown colour, with a greenish tinge streaked 

 with darker; they measured about 2-4 x 1-6. 



700. Otis barrovii. Barrow's Knorhaan. 



Otis barrovii, /. E. Gray, in Griffith's A. K. viii, p. 304 (1829) ; Shelley, 



B. Afr. i, p. 186 (1896) ; Beichenoxv, Vog. Afr. i, p. 250 (1900). 

 Eupodotis senegalensls {nee Vieill.), Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 285 (1867) ; 



Gwrney, Ibis, 1868, p. 48 [Natal] ; Ayres, Ibis, 1869, p. 298, 1880, 



p. 265 ; Hohib d Peln., Orn. Sild-Afr. p. 239 (1882) ; Bryden, Gun 



and Camera, p. 481 (1893). 

 Eupodotis cserulescens {nee Vieill.), Butler, Feilden and Beid, Zool. 



1882, p. 340. 

 Otis senegalensis, Sharpe, ed. Layard" s B. 8. Afr. p. 639 (1884) ; 



Millais, Breath from the Veldt, 2nd ed., p. 54, figured as "Vaal 



Knorhaan " (1899). 

 Traohelotis barrovii, 8harpe, Cat. B. M. xxiii, p. 311 (1894) ; Oates, 



Cat. B. Eggs, ii, p. 367 (1902) ; Mitchell, P. Z. 8., 1904, i, p. 4. 



Description. Adult Male. — Crown and occiput slaty-blue, sur- 

 rounded by a line of black more or less conspicuous ; the feathers 

 somewhat elongated and erectile, forming a crest ; chin, sides of 

 the face, including lores, eyebrows and ear-coverts white ; below 

 this, across the throat, is a transversely elongated black band which 

 almost touches posteriorly the black feathers of the crest ; hind- 

 neck tawny-rufous ; back and wings freckled black and sandy-rufous 

 with a tendency to form transverse bands on the longer secondaries ; 

 wing-coverts tawny without freckling ; primary coverts and wing- 

 quills black; the former tawny at their bases, the latter with 

 patches of tawny, fading to white on the inner webs of the inner 

 primaries and outer secondaries ; tail feathers tawny at the base, 

 black at the tip except the centre ones, which are freckled pale 

 rufous and black with two narrow transverse bands ; below the 

 fore-neck and chest are slaty-blue with a patch of tawny on either 

 side, the rest of the lower surface, including the under wing-coverts, 

 axillaries and quill-lining is white. All over the back of this bird is 

 a slight pink iridescence. 



Iris light brown; bill yellowish, dusky on the culmen ; legs and 

 feet yellowish-white. 



Length about 21-0; wing 11'5; tail 5'0 ; tarsus 3'4; culmen 1-3. 



