170 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant on Birds 
d. $ imm. Warn a, Abyssinia, 12 March, 1899. (No. 
403.) 
Iris brown; bill and legs black. 
The females are all immature birds. Specimen a has on 
the left side of the breast a single chestnut feather among 
the darker banded plumage of the underparts, indicating, no 
doubt, the commencement of the perfectly adult plumage. 
A young male from Abyssinia ( Verreaux ), in the British 
Museum Collection, with the upper parts and breast still 
partially in the spotted nestling-plumage, is moulting direct 
into the plumage of the adult male—the lower breast, belly, 
and under tail-coverts having already become nearly uniform 
rufous-chestnut, while many feathers of the upper parts, throat, 
and upper breast are deep black. This bird shows no trace 
of the rufous patch down the middle of the throat. It seems 
probable, therefore, that though the females ultimately become 
similar in plumage to the adult male, they do not attain the 
adult plumage at the first moult: an intermediate dress, in 
which the breast and belly are dusky rufous-buff indistinctly 
barred with black, being worn for at least a year. 
[Never met with east of Addis Abbeba.—L.] . 
143. EltYTHROPYGIA LEUCOPTERA. 
Erythropygia leucoptera (Rupp.); Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. 
Mus. vii. p. 79 (.1883) ; id. P. Z. S. 1895, p. 483; Hartert, 
Kat. Mus. Senckenb. p. 9 (1891); Lort Phillips, Ibis, 1898, 
p. 410 [N. Somaliland] ; Hawker, Ibis, 1899, p. 70. 
$. Ketchen Waha, Abyssinia, 16 January, 1899. (No. 
204.) 
Iris hazel ; bill and legs dark. 
[This bird was seen only on the Hawash plain.—L.] 
144. Crateropus smithi. 
Crateropus smithii Sharpe, Bull. B. O. C. iv. p. xli (1895) ; 
id. P. Z. S. 1895, p. 487 [Western Somaliland] ; Hawker, 
Ibis, 1899, p. 73. 
a . $. Warabili, Abyssinia, 4 January, 1899. (No. 103.) 
Iris red ; bill black ; legs light slate-colour. 
