MIRAFRA AFRICANA.— Smith. 
Aves. — Plate LXXXVHI. Fig. 1. 
M suprk fusca; capitis cervicisque plumis rubro-aurantio, dorsi plumis sordide albo griseove mar- 
ginalia: guia. guttureque albis ; pectore pallide rubro-aurantio, maculis fusers vanegato; ventre 
subflavo rubro-aurantio-tincto; remigibus primariis secondariisquc versus basin rubro-aurant.o- 
marginatis ; rostro flavo-brunneo, castaneo-umbrato ; pedibus subflavis, carneo-tmctis. 
Longitudo e rostri apice ad basin caudte 5 unc. 2 lin. ; caudse 2 unc. 4 lin. 
Colour.— The upper surface of the head streaked liver-brown and clear 
reddish orange, the edges of the feathers, particularly of those towards the 
nape, being of the latter colour; back and sides of neck umber-brown, with 
the edges of each feather either reddish orange or sienna-yellow. Back 
liver-brown, the feathers edged broadly and tipped narrowly either with rusty 
white or rusty grey,— the latter most abundant and distinct on the rump and 
upper-tail coverts. Chin and commencement of throat white ; middle of 
throat and sides of neck immediately behind ear-coverts white, mottled with 
small, triangular, umber-brown spots. Breast anteriorly sienna-yellow, pos- 
teriorly light reddish orange, and each feather is marked, in the course of 
the shaft, with a narrow liver-brown stripe which expands towards the point 
of the feather into an angular spot. Belly sienna-yellow, tinted with reddish 
orauge ; the under tail coverts cream-yellow. The lesser wing coverts are 
reddish orange towards the edges, greyish brown along the shaft ; the 
primary quill coverts intermediate between orpiment and reddish orange, and 
each is marked with a liver-brown line following the course of the shaft ; 
the outer vanes of the secondary quill feathers are brownish grey edged with 
rusty white, the inner vanes towards the shaft liver-brown, elsewhere colored 
like the primary quill coverts. Primary quill feathers towards base reddish 
orange, shaded with deep reddish orange, towards points intermediate 
between broccoli and umber-brown ; secondaries coloured like the primaries, 
and towards and at the tip edged with rusty white ; tertiary quill feathers 
