GLAREOLID^ 



EHINOPTIIiUS 



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appearance; primaries dark brown, the inner ones edged and tipped 

 with rufous ; upper tail-coverts white ; tail-feathers brown with dark 

 subterminal bands and white tips, outer pair almost pure white; 

 eyebrow, sides of the neck, chin and throat white; ear-coverts 

 sandy ; a narrow dark rufous-brown band extending from the ear- 

 coverts across the lower neck ; a broad sandy band edged above and 

 below, and spotted with dark brown across the upper breast, and 

 a third narrow chestnut band across the lower breast ; rest of the 

 lower surface and interspaces between the bands white. 



Length about 10-85; wing 6-60; tail 3-30; culmen -65; tar- 

 sus 2-60. 



Fig. 105. — Head of Bhinoptilus chalcopterus. x'^.}. 



A young bird has the mantle ashy-grey ; the head streaked with 

 black ; the scapulars and coverts ashy-grey. A nestling is covered 

 with dirty white down somewhat darker on the head. 



Distribution. — The type of this species and another example 

 now in the British Museum were obtained at Ondonga in Ovampo- 

 land, on January 25 and 27, 1867, while there are examples from 

 the Matopos near Bulawayo in the Rhodesian Museum. It was 

 also collected by Anchieta at Humbe on the Cunene Eiver. 



By Eeichenow it is considered hardly distinct from B. ductus of 

 East and North-east Africa. 



709. Rhinoptilus chalcopterus. Bronze-wing Courser. 



Cursorius chalcopterus, Temm. PI. Col. v, pi. 298 (1824) ; Gray, Genera 

 Bds. ui, p. 537, pi. 143 (1844) ; Gurnet/, Ihis, 1861, p. 134 [Natal] ; 

 Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 290 (1867) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1871, p. 263, 1884, 

 p. 232 ; Gurney, in Andersson's B. Damaraland, p. 263 (1872) ; 

 Butler, Feilden and Beid, Zool. 1882, p. 341 ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's 



