636' BIRDS FROM LIU KIU ISLANDS, JAPAN. 



inally with black ; superciliary streak, lores, cheeks, malar region, ear- 

 coverts, and upper lateral portion of neck similarly colored, the brown- 

 ish black markings, however, occupying the tip of the feathers, form- 

 ing semi-lunar, scale-like marks on the side of the neck ; a distinct 

 light hazel-colored spot behind the ear-coverts ; chin and throat white, 

 slightly suffused with buff", unspotted; feathers of the crown and nape 

 black with broad hazel-colored tips, those nearest to the supercilium 

 with a light mark in the outer web, and those nearest to the middle 

 with a similar, but larger buffy white spot, forming a conspicuous light 

 median line from the forehead to the neck ; lower lateral portion of neck 

 of a dull hazel inclining to cinnamon, and but faintly mottled with 

 dusky; ground color of scapulars, and entire back, including rump and 

 upper tail-coverts, of a raw umber somewhat irregularly overlaid with 

 hazel inclining to rusty, and more or less conspicuously mottled and 

 waved with blackish, the shoulder feathers and longest rump feathers 

 in the outer web marked with a distinct buffy spot which is set well off 

 from the rest of the feather by a black line or spot; ground color of 

 under parts creamy buff", becoming tawny buff on the flanks, crissum 

 and under tail-coverts, the feathers of the fore-neck, upper breast, and 

 sides of the breast each with a subterminal transverse spot of black, 

 forming a series of interrupted cross-bars, and most of the feathers also 

 with a very narrow blackish edge to the tips; primaries dusky, fading 

 into brownish gray toward the tip, the outer webs with light edges, 

 which are particularly well defined, and nearly white on the outermost 

 pair ; secondaries similarly colored, but the edges more tinged with buff 

 and the tips inclining to cinnamon, the inner ones in the outer webs 

 showing trace of buff' cross-bars as an indication of the markings on 

 the tertiaries, which are hazel mottled with dusky and adorned with 

 several transverse marginal spots of a light buff irregularly bordered 

 by brownish black ; primary coverts like the primaries ; great second- 

 ary coverts similar to the tertiaries, but the hazel inclines to cinnamon, 

 the buff' occupies nearly the whole outer web, and the dark markings 

 assume more the character of regular cross-bars; the smaller upper 

 coverts similarly colored on both webs, the smallest ones with only ter- 

 minal buff" spot and a subterminal black one, nearly obsolete in those 

 nearest to the edge of the wing; largest feather of the alulii dusky 

 with a broad and well-defined buffy white edge to the outer web ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries ashy gray, those nearest to the edge and 

 the tips of the axillaries strongly washed with cinnamon ; tail-feathers 

 like the elongated rump-leathers and difficult to distinguish from the 

 latter. Bill and legs appear to have been of a bluish horn-color, the 

 gonys light yellowish. 



Dimensions. — Total length liO'"™, according to the measurement of 

 the fresh bird by the collector. Wing, 73'"°' ; tail-feathers, 20'"'" ; ex- 

 posed culmen, 12""" ; tarsus, 24'"'" ; middle toe with claw, 20™'°. 



