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Show 252 MR. D. G. ELLIOT ON THE PTEROCLIDA. [Feb. 19, Rump and upper tail-coverts buff, barred narrowly with black. Lesser wing-coverts pale vinous at base, then a narrow line of white followed by a broader one of pale chestnut, and then a narrow line of yellow, and tipped with pale chestnut. Some of the outer larger wing-coverts were like those just described ; but the inner ones are dark, have the base dark ash, then rich yellow, and narrowly bordered with black. Inner secondaries rufous at base, barred with black, tipped with pale green, and a conspicuous yellow spot in the centre. Rest of secondaries pale yellowish-green, with yellow on their outer webs near the tips. Primaries ashy grey, margined on inner webs with white; the secondaries and tertiaries inclined to buff along the shaft on inner webs ; shafts black. Tail-feathers buff, barred with black and tipped with white; the two central ones entirely black on their apical half, are extremely narrow, and extend far beyond the other rectrices. Under tail-coverts buff, barred with black, and tipped with white. Feathers of the tarsi white. Bill horn-brown. Bare space around the eye lead-colour ; iris dark brown. Total length 13^ inches, wing 8, tail to end of longest rectrices 6, bill along gape ^. Female. Top of head and back of neck deep buff, barred with black. Sides of face and neck orange-yellow. Chin and throat white. A black band around the lower part of neck, but not extending onto the back of the neck, beneath which is a broad light chestnut band bordered above and below with black as in the male. Entire underparts pure white. Upper parts buff, narrowly barred with black. Wing-coverts buff, barred with black, and with a grey spot on inner web near tip, this spot on some of the greater coverts being enlarged into a bar crossing the feathers near the tip. Secondaries buff, barred with black, and having a sub-terminal grey bar. Primaries like those of the males. Upper tail-coverts yellowish buff, irregularly barred with black. Rectrices like those of the male. Bill horn-colour. Total length 13 inches, wing 7f, tail 5§, bill at gape -|. 9. PTEROCLES NAMAQUA. Namaqua Grous, Lath. Gen. Syn. B. (1783), vol. ii. pt. 2, p. 750 ; id. Suppl. p. 215 ; id. Gen. Hist. B. vol. viii. (1823) p. 251. Tetrao namaqua, Gmel. Syst. Nat. (1788) vol. i. p. 754; Lath. Ind. Orn. vol. ii. p. 642, sp. 19; Sparrm. Voy. vol. i. p. 153 ; Bonnat. Enc. Meth. (1790) torn. ii. p. 204. Pterocles tuchypetes, Temm. Pig. et Gall. (1815) pp. 274, 715; Wagl. Syst. Av. (1827), Pterocles, sp. 7; Less. Trait. Ornith. (1831) p.517,sp.7; Layard, B.S. Afr. (1867) p. 277; Ayres, Ibis (1871) p. 262. CEnas namaqua, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. (1817) vol. xii. p. 422. Pterocles simplex, Less. Trait. Ornith. (1831) p. 517. Pterocles namaqua, Graj*, Gen. B. vol. iii. p. 518 ; Bocage, Journ. fiir Ornith. (1876) p. 303. |