CHAEADfillDai 



^GIALITIS 



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46 (1901) ; Oates, Cat. B. Eggs ii, pp. 29, 350 (1902) ; Whitehead, Ibis, 

 1903, p. 236 ; Sharps, Ibis, 1904, p. 10 [Deelfontein]. 

 ^giaJitis varius, Harting, Ibis, 1873, p. 262, pi. viii ; Ayres, Ibis, 1878, 

 p. 299, 1880, p. 267 ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 661 (1884). 



Description. Adult Male. — General colour above dark brown, 

 most of the feathers with paler edges and tips; forehead white, 

 separated from the brown crown by a black transverse band, and 

 from the throat by a strongly marked black band running from the 

 lores through the ear-coverts to the mantle ; above this latter a band 



Fig. 120. — jEgialitis pecuaria. Adults and nestlings. From photographs 

 taken by Mr. H. E. Harris, at Knysna. 



of white runs from above the eye, surrounding the crown and nape 

 and joining its fellow on the other side ; primary coverts and wing- 

 quills blackish, the shaft of the first primary white, that of the third 

 and fourth black throughout ; secondaries blackish-brown, narrowly 

 fringed with white ; rump and upper tail-coverts blackish, with a 

 few white feathers, especially at the sides ; central tail-feathers 

 blackish-brown, others paler with white tips, outermost white, with 



