17. CALAMOCTCULA. 131 



According to Jerdon the/t')Hrt?(; is smaller than the nude; though 

 Mr. Cripps gives the wing as 3-50 inches, as in the male. " Bill fleshy 

 at base, the rest horny; legs fleshy; iris light chocolate-brown" {J. R. 

 Cripiis). Another female had the " bill horny above, pale beneath ; 

 legs light purplish ; iris dark brown " {J. li. Cripps). 



Young. Differs from the adult in being much more yellow about 

 the face and on the underparts, the edges to the feathers of the 

 upper parts being also more ochreous buff; on the fore neck and 

 chest a few indications of dusky streaks. 



Hab. Plains of Upper and Central India. 



a. Vix ad. sk. Madras (Jerdon). Gould Collection. 



b. Ad. sk. Madras (Jerdon). Gould Collection. 



c. d, e. Ad. sk, Madras. T. C. Jerdon, Esq. [P.]. 



(Types of C. striata.) 



f. Ad. sk. Dinapore. Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill 



[P.]. 



g, h, i. Ad. ; k, I. N. Bengal. Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill 

 Jun. sk. [P.]. 



m. 2 ad. sk. Calcutta. Major J. Biddulph [C.]. 



17. CALAMOCICHLA. 



Calamoherpe, pt., auctorum recentiion. 



Range. Confined to Madagascar and the Cape-Yerd Islands. 



Key to the Species. 



a. With stripes on the breast neivtoni ad., p. 131. 



b. With the breast uniform. 



«'. Lower mandible brown, yellowish only at 

 extreme base ; breast and flanks deep ful- 

 vous brown; upper surface dark brown . . ncwto7ii ]u.v., p. 132. 



b'. Lower mandible yellow, only the tip brown ; 

 breast pale fulvous like the rest of the 

 under surface ; flanks light tawny buff, 

 upper surface russet-brown breiipennis ad., p. 132. 



1. Calamocichla newtoni. 



Calamoherpe newtoni, Hartl. P. Z. S. 18(33, p. 165 ; £. Newt. Ibis, 

 1863, p. 344, pi. xiii. fig. 3 (egg) ; Verr. in Vinson, Voy. Madag., 

 Ann. B, p. 2 (I860) ; Grandid. Rev. et Mag. de Zuol. 1867, p. 358 ; 

 Hartl. Viig. Madag. p. 116 (1877). 



Calamodyta ne^^•toni, Schkyel, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 421 ; id. S^PolLFaune 

 Madag., Ois. p. 00, pi. xxviii. (1868) ; Grag, Hand-/. B. i. p. 207, 

 no. 2936 (1869) ; Milne-Edwards ^- Grandid. in Grundid. Hist. 

 Nat. Madag., Ois. p. 336, pi. 131 (1881). 



Adult. General colom* above russct-brown, more dingy on the 

 head, and decidedly more rufous on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; 

 wing-coverts dark brown, edged with the same colour as the back, 

 the quills also dark brown, margined with russet-brown, inclining 



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