. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 18, CALAMONASTES. 133 18. Tarsus of Calamonastcs fasciolafus, to show scutellations. Range. South Africa, extending into Central Africa. Key to the Species. a. Wing-coverts tipped with buffy white; upper surface fulvous brown, clearer and more tawny on the rump and upper tail-coverts fasciolatus, p. 133. h. Wing-coverts uniform, witliout any pale tips; upper surface uniform dull ashy brown tindosus, p. 134. 1. Calamonastes fasciolatus. Drymoica fasciolata. Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr., Aves, pi. exi. fig. 2 (1847); £p. Consj). i. p. 2
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 18, CALAMONASTES. 133 18. Tarsus of Calamonastcs fasciolafus, to show scutellations. Range. South Africa, extending into Central Africa. Key to the Species. a. Wing-coverts tipped with buffy white; upper surface fulvous brown, clearer and more tawny on the rump and upper tail-coverts fasciolatus, p. 133. h. Wing-coverts uniform, witliout any pale tips; upper surface uniform dull ashy brown tindosus, p. 134. 1. Calamonastes fasciolatus. Drymoica fasciolata. Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr., Aves, pi. exi. fig. 2 (1847); £p. Consj). i. p. 283 (1850); Lal/ard, B. S. Afr. p. 86, no. 148 (1867); Graij, Hand-l. B. i. p. 198, no. 2746 (1869); Sharpe, Cut. Afr. B. p. 31, no. 296 (1871); Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 373. Cossypha fasciiventris, Sundev. (Efv. K. Fork. Stockh. 1850, p. 101, no. 19. Aedon fasciolata. Gurnet/, Ibis, 1871, p. 152 ; id. in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 90, no. 113 (1872). Cisticola fasciolata, Sharpe, ed. Luyard B. S. Afr. p. 273 (1876); Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 254. Adult. Above warm brown, rather rufescent, the rump and upper tail-coverts rather lighter and more tawny rufous; wings brown, the coverts edged with fulvous-brown, and all tipped with white or fulvous-white ; quills brown, externally edged with rufous- brown, the innermost secondaries margined with whitish at the tip ; tail brown, the feathers edged with rufous-brown and all tipped with fulvous, before which the colour darkens, but does not form a subterminal band; lores and sides of face greyish white, waved with transverse bars of blackish brown ; the ear-coverts washed with brown, with whitish shaft-stripes; under surface of body dull white, the sides bright fulvous, deeper and more tawny on the thighs and under tail-coverts; the throat very slightly, but the chest and sides of the body distinctly crossed with zigzag or V-shaped bars of dark brown; under wing-coverts light buff, the lower surface of the quills ashy brown, edge
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