EUPLECTES TAHA.— Smith.* 
Aves. — Plate VII. — (Male.) 
Mas in cest. E. niger ; capite superne, dorso, caudse tectricibus superioribus et inferioribus, fasciaque 
ante bumeros flavis ; liumeris, remigibus, rectridbusque cinereo-brunneis ; oculis brunneis ; pedibus 
flavo-brunneis. 
Longitudo, 4 unc. 9 lin. 
Mas in liyem ., et Fem. E. supra pallide flavo-brunneus, nigro-striatus ; subtus dnereo-albus lineis 
brunneis variegatus ; gutture pectoreque ochreo tinctis ; striga superciliari flavescenti-alba. 
Colour. — (Male, summer plumage.) The crown of the head, the back, the 
upper and under tail-coverts, the vent, and a narrow oblique stripe on each 
side of the breast immediately in front of the shoulders, bright yellow ; 
shoulders, quill feathers, and tail, grey-brown ; the shoulder feathers, and the 
outer vanes of the quill feathers, faintly edged with dirty white ; insides of 
shoulders pale cream-yellow verging on white ; thighs pale yellow, freckled 
with brown. The space in front of the eyes, the sides of the head, a stripe 
on each side of back adjoining the bases of the wings and all the under parts 
of the body as far as the vent, deep brownish black. Bill light umber-brown, 
the lower mandible lightest. Feet and claws yellowish brown ; eyes brown. 
(Male, winter plumage.) Above, pale yellowish brown ; the head, neck, and 
interscapulars, freely dashed with longitudinal brownish black stripes or 
blotches, and the back and upper tail coverts with faint narrow stripes of the 
same colour ; shoulder feathers blackish brown edged with rusty white ; 
quills and tail grey-brown, the former margined externally with rusty white, 
the latter margined on both vanes and tipt with the same colour. Eyebrows 
yellowish white ; ear coverts pale rusty brown ; under parts of body greyish 
white, the throat and breast tinged with sienna yellow, and these as well as 
the flanks are variegated by longitudinal brown stieaks. Bill, particulaily 
the lower mandible, lighter than in the summer season. 
* In bringing tliis bird under the notice of our readers, I have not adopted the generic term {Oryx) 
introduced by Lesson, (Traite d’Ornithologie, tom. i. fol. 437- Paris 1831.) who first established the 
genus to which it belongs, merely because the same term had previously been selected by Col. H. Smith, 
(The Animal Kingdom, translated by E. Griffith, vol. 5.) to designate one of the forms of the 
Antelopidw. 
