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Show 650 MR. R. B. SHARPE ON THE [Nov. 17, more than the terminal half; lores and a distinct eyebrow sandy buff; ear-coverts rufous, spotted with dark brown, especially on the hinder margin; cheeks, throat, and sides of neck buffy white ; rest of under surface creamy buff washed with isabelline on the chest, which is thickly spotted with dark brown, a few spots of which colour extend on to the throat; under wing-coverts isabelline, resembling the inner lining of the quills, with a few spots of brown on the carpal edge of the wing; "beak horn-coloured; legs sienna; iris hazel " (T. E. Buckley). Total length 5*8 inches, culmen 0 6 , wing 3*1, tail 2-5, tarsus 0-85. Hab. From Caffraria and the Transvaal to Damara Land. This species is closely allied to M. cheniana, but is a much larger bird, and has not the red borders to the wing-coverts, nor is it so richly coloured. The white border does not extend on to the inner web of the penultimate tail-feathers in the present species, whereas in M. cheniana it extends to the inner web of the penultimate and even forms a border to the third feather. Specimens examined. E mus. R. B. S.:-a, b. Damara Land (C. J. Andersson). E mus. T. E. Buckley:-a, 3- Transvaal, Nov. 29, 1873 (T. E. B.\ E mus. H. B. Tristram.:-a, b. Damara Land (C. J. Andersson). 21. MIRAFRA DAMARENSIS, sp. n. (Plate LXXV. fig. 2.) Adult male in winter plumage. Above sandy grey, slightly washed with fulvous and having a distinct shade of ashy grey on the margins of the feathers; the upper surface narrowly streaked with black shaft-lines, rather broader and more distinct on the crown ; the hind neck inclining to ashy, the streaks much more minute ; wing-coverts like the back but rather paler by reason of distinct whitish grey margins to the feathers, which have also central streaks or markings of bright fawn, many of the greater coverts washed with the latter colour before the whitish margin; quills dark brown, externally shaded with ashy buff, broader and clearer grey on the secondaries; the outer aspect of the wing rufous, this colour extending right across the primaries, of which it occupies quite two thirds, and traverses also the basal part of the secondaries; lower back and rump sandy grey, like the back, with scarcely any shaft-streaks, more distinct on the upper tail-coverts, which have distinct ashy white margins; tail blackish brown, all the centre feathers distinctly shaded with bluish grey and margined with whitish ash-colour, shading off into white at the tips, the three external feathers bordered and tipped with white, this colour occupying the entire web of the outermost feather; lores, a distinct eyebrow, and sides of the face white; the ear-coverts sandy, with indistinct white streaks ; throat white, unspotted; rest of under surface creamy white, with a tinge here and there of sandy isabelline, the chest with numerous minute specks of dark brown ; thighs buff washed with sandy ; under wing-coverts entirely rufous, like the inner lining of the quills, this colour occu- |