13. LATICILLA. 119 



1. Laticilla burnesi. 



Eurycercus iDurnesii, Bhith, J. A. S. Beng. xiii. p. 374 (1844) ; Jerd. 



Laticilla burnesii, Bh,fh, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 596 (1845) ; Hume, 



Str. F. 1873, p. 180, 1879, p. 97 ; Doig, t. c. p. 370. 

 Sphenceacus (?)^umesii, Blyth, Cat B. Mus As. -^^^-E- If (1849). 

 /egalurus burnesii, Grag, Hand-l. B. i. p. 206, no. 2196 (1869). 



■ AduU female in breeclim/-pliimage (teste S. Doig). General colour 

 above ashy brown, mesially streaked with blackish brown ; the head 

 slightly washed with fulvous ; hind neck and mantle as well as the 

 sides of the neck rufescent. with very distinct blackish-brown streaks 

 down each feather ; rump uniform ashy brown, the upper tail-coverts 

 also ashy brown, but obscurelv streaked down the centre with dusky ; 

 wing-coverts ashy brown ; quills light brown, externally ashy brown 

 like the back, with a slight tinge of olive ; tail-feathers very broad 

 and loose, ashy olive-brown, margined with lighter ashy brown, the 

 outer feathers with a faint indication of a narrow rufescent bar at 

 the tip ■ all the feathers with a slight appearance of dusky barring 

 under certain lights ; lores duU white ; eyelid and a narrow eye- 

 brow purer white, running from the base of the bill, and streaked 

 behind with blackish ; cheeks white, with a few small streaks of 

 duskv black ; ear-coverts ashy brown, washed with fulvous behind 

 and slightly varied with broad streaks of dusky ; throat and under 

 surface of body white, the sides of the breast and flanks light brown, 

 longitudinally streaked with dusky ; thighs light brown ; under 

 tail-coverts bright ferruginous ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 whitish, the lower series pale brown like the under surface ot the 

 quills which are pale brown below, creamy white along the edge of 

 the inner web ; " bill horny above, yellowish beneath ; legs yellow- 

 brown ; irides brownish yellow " (Jerdon). Total length T'o inches, 

 culmen 0-5.5, wing 2-25,"tail 4-4, tarsus 0-8. 

 Hub. Scinde ; valley of the Ganges. 



a 2 ad sk. Eastern Narra, Scinde, Feb. 12, S. Doig, Esq. [P.]. 

 * 1881. 



2. Laticilla cinerascens *. 

 Eurycercus cinerascens, Walden, Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xvi. 



LaticiUa cinerascens, Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 97 (1879). 



Adult male (Dobri, Lower Bengal, November 27, 1873; type 

 of species) General colour above olive-brown, washed with ashy 

 and streaked with dark brown down the centre of the feathers, a 

 little more ashy on the rump and upper tail-coverts and also on the 

 forehead and sides of crown; wing-coverts like the back, ashy on 

 the least series ; bastard-wing feathers dark brown, externally like 



* Scarcely a typical Laficilh.the feet being much stronger than in L. humesi, 

 which, moreover, has a longer tail. 



