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CHAUADEIIDa; 



MGIkLITlS 



Description. Adult Male.— Above uniform brown ; forehead and 

 fore part of the crown white, this colour continued as a narrow band 

 above the eye and down the neck, meeting its fellow on the other 

 side and encircling the crown and nape ; a second white band cross- 

 ing the middle of the breast, passes under the shoulder on to the 



Fig. 118. — JSgialitis tricollaris and nest with two eggs. From photographs 

 taken by Mr. H. E. Harris at Caledon. 



back and is separated from its ellow by a black patch ; all the 

 coverts and quills brown with white tips, most developed on 

 the inner secondaries ; shafts of the primaries dark ; central tail- 

 feathers like the back, others tipped with white and with a sub- 

 terminal patch of darker brown ; outer feathers white, with a brown 

 subterminal spot on the inner web only ; below, the sides of the face 

 and neck are ashy-grey, the ear-coverts a little darker; across the 



