. The birds of South Africa. Birds. GLAREOLID^ EHINOPTIIiUS 329 appearance; primaries dark brown, the inner ones edged and tipped with rufous ; upper tail-coverts white; tail-feathers brown with dark subterminal bands and white tips, outer pair almost pure white; eyebrow, sides of the neck, chin and throat white; ear-coverts sandy; a narrow dark rufous-brown band extending from the ear- coverts across the lower neck ; a broad sandy band edged above and below, and spotted with dark brown across the upper breast, and a third narrow chestnut band across the lower breast; rest of the lower surface
. The birds of South Africa. Birds. GLAREOLID^ EHINOPTIIiUS 329 appearance; primaries dark brown, the inner ones edged and tipped with rufous ; upper tail-coverts white; tail-feathers brown with dark subterminal bands and white tips, outer pair almost pure white; eyebrow, sides of the neck, chin and throat white; ear-coverts sandy; a narrow dark rufous-brown band extending from the ear- coverts across the lower neck ; a broad sandy band edged above and below, and spotted with dark brown across the upper breast, and a third narrow chestnut band across the lower breast; rest of the lower surface and interspaces between the bands white. Length about 10-85; wing 6-60; tail 3-30; culmen -65; tar- sus Fig. 105.—Head of Bhinoptilus chalcopterus. x'^.}. A young bird has the mantle ashy-grey; the head streaked with black; the scapulars and coverts ashy-grey. A nestling is covered with dirty white down somewhat darker on the head. Distribution.—The type of this species and another example now in the British Museum were obtained at Ondonga in Ovampo- land, on January 25 and 27, 1867, while there are examples from the Matopos near Bulawayo in the Rhodesian Museum. It was also collected by Anchieta at Humbe on the Cunene Eiver. By Eeichenow it is considered hardly distinct from B. ductus of East and North-east Africa. 709. Rhinoptilus chalcopterus. Bronze-wing Courser. Cursorius chalcopterus, Temm. PI. Col. v, pi. 298 (1824); Gray, Genera Bds. ui, p. 537, pi. 143 (1844); Gurnet/, Ihis, 1861, p. 134 [Natal] ; Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 290 (1867); Ayres, Ibis, 1871, p. 263, 1884, p. 232; Gurney, in Andersson's B. Damaraland, p. 263 (1872); Butler, Feilden and Beid, Zool. 1882, p. 341; Sharpe, ed. Layard's. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Stark, Arthur Cowell, d. 1899; Sclater, William Lut
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