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wood-brown. Lores and cheeks yellowish white, more or less mottled 
with black, the tips of the bristles and the base of the feathers in front of 
the eye being darker ; ear-coverts and eyebrows more yellowish 
than the lores and darkening towards the nape ; sides of the 
upper breast with large dark brown mottlings, forming a patch on 
each side ; flanks fulvous, some of the feathers showing a very faint darker 
streak down the shaft ; rest of under surface white tinged with fulvous ; 
under wing-coverts and inner lining of wing isabelline. 
The tvpe bears a label which gives neither the date nor the locality 
when and where it was collected, but as it is said to have been taken by 
R,. H. Ivy, I have no doubt that it was collected at Grahamstown. The 
following measurements have been taken of a series of skins in the Transvaal 
Museum collection 
No. 
Locality. 
Date. 
Sex. 
Wing. p 
1st 
’rim. 
Tail. Tars. 
Mid. 
Toe. 
Culm. 
1996 
(Tvpe) ? 
2 
<? 
57 
10 
34 
22 
11 
2 
9533 
Pretoria 
. 23/10/11 
55 -5 
12 
27 
21 
11 
11 
6997 
35 
. 15/7/09 
<? 
56 
10 
36 
21 
10 
11 
5276 
Honingspruit, 
O.F.S. 
11/5/08 
?. 
54 
10 
36 
21 
10 -5 
11 
5277 
1/7/08 
<J 
57 
9-5 38 
21 
10 -5 
11 
The adult male collected at Pretoria on 23rd October is in a bad state of 
preservation ; it is darker coloured than the type, probably on account 
of its fresh plumage. The three remaining specimens are in winter plumage. 
In the collection there is an adult mRein summer plumage from Maraba- 
stad that agrees with the type in general colouration, but is smaller, and I 
think belongs to another undescribed species. An adult female in summer 
plumage from Pretoria seems to be referable to this smaller species, but 
more material is required to establish their identity. 
Hemifteryx egregia, spec. nov. 
Crown and forehead straw colour, the sides and nape darker ; hindneck 
like the nape ; upper back and scapulars very dark brown, all the feathers 
more or less edged with pale rufous, almost white on the outer margins 
of the scapulars ; lower back pale rufous ; upper tail-coverts dark brown, 
with paler margins ; tail feathers brown with paler margins and white 
tips. All the feathers of the upper surface worn on the margins. Lores, 
eyebrows, cheeks, ear-coverts and general under surface of body yellowish 
white, the ear-coverts rather more tawny and the flanks and thighs more 
rufous ; base of feathers at the side of the breast brown ; a blackish spot 
in front of the eye. Primaries grey brown, externally margined with pale 
wood-brown ; inner secondaries dark brown margined all round with dull 
white ; primary and greater wing-coverts like the primaries, remaining 
wing-coverts with paler margins. Iris yellowish brown ; maxilla dark 
brown, mandible bluish white ; legs and feet flesh pink. Length in the 
flesh 110 mm. 
The type is an adult male in summer plumage procured at Wakkerstroom 
on 24th December, 1911, as it flew from an unfinished nest. Measurements 
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