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Annals oe the Transvaal Museum. 
Above pale isabelline-brown, crown washed with grey. Upper tail- 
coverts pale rusty brown. Wing-coverts chestnut or red-brown. Remiges 
dark-brown, edged with red-brown on the outer and pale isabelline on the 
inner web. Lores and sides of head pale grey — a dusky spot in front of 
the eye. Chin and throat white, as is also the centre of the abdomen. 
Breast washed with very pale rusty yellow, stronger on the sides, 
shading into rusty-brown on the flanks. Tail feathers edged with rusty- 
yellow, and with a subterminal black bar before the white tip. (This is 
distinctly visible from above, and markedly different from the figure of 
erythroptera in the “ Ibis/’ 1869, Plate I, fig. 2.) 
(a) Male (type). Length of skin 134 mm. Wing 50.5. Tail 59. Tarsus 
21. Culmen 13. Mpimba, Boror, P.E. Africa, 14th July, 1908. (Bill 
dark brown, gape and genvs whitish. Iris brownish-yellow. Tarsus 
pale-yellow. Length 137. W. 51. Culmen 13. K. & R.) 
(b) Female (type). Wing 49. Tail 58. Tarsus 20. Culmen (shot away). 
Villa Pereira, Boror, P.E. Africa, 24th June, 1908. (Bill brown above, 
flesh colour below. Iris brownish yellow. Tarsus pale yellow. L. 132. 
W. 49. K. & R.) 
