194 TIltELIID^. 



y. 5 , ill breeding-dress (March 1). As in a. 



I. c5' , ill Ml first plumage (May 28). Eye light brown ; upper 

 mandible brown, lower one flesh-colour ; legs flesh-colour. 



e. $ young (Feb. 13). Eye light brown ; bill horn-colour; legs 

 flesh-colour. 



Young male. General coloui- above light brown, rather more ashy 

 brown on the head and neck, the crown streaked with dark brown ; 

 rump and upper tail-coverts fulvous-brown ; tail dark brown, edged 

 with fulvous-brown, all the feathers tipped with buft'y white, and 

 having a subterminal bar of ashy black ou all excepting the two 

 centre feathers ; wings sepia-brown, all the feathers broadly edged 

 with tawny brown, inclining to rufous on the margins of the quills ; 

 lores and a very distinct eyebrow dull white, the latter greyish on 

 the hiuder part, and with fulvous over the eye ; round the eye a 

 ring of fulvous plumes ; ear- coverts ashy brown on their upper and 

 hinder margin, dull whitish where they adjoin the cheeks, which 

 are also whitish shglitly washed with buff ; throat white, shading 

 into buff' on the fore neck and chest ; the sides of the body and 

 thighs, and under wing- and tail-coverts pale tawny buff, the centre 

 of the abdomen whitish. Total length .5-8 inches, culmen 0-5, 

 wing 2-05, tail 3-35, tarsus 0-85. 



Younri female. Smaller than the male. Total length 4-8 inches, 

 culmen 0-5, wing 1-95, tail 2-6, tarsus 0-8. 



Young in first winter plumage (type of D. hivittata, Peters). 

 General colour above brown, slightly washed with rufous ; rump 

 decidedly more fulvescent ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; 

 median and greater coverts dusky brown, edged with dull rufous ; 

 bastard-wing feathers dusky, margined with paler rufous ; primary- 

 coverts and quills dusky brown, externally edged with rufous, 

 brighter on the outer web of the primaries; upper tail- coverts and 

 tail-feathers rufous-brown, more rufous on the edges of the feathers, 

 which are tipped with paler rufous, with a tolerably distinct bar of 

 dusky blackish ; crown of head rather more dusky than the back, 

 indistinctly streaked with lighter brown ; lores and a tolerably 

 distinct eyebrow whitish, the hinder margin of the latter ashy; 

 feathers rouud the eye bufty whitish ; ear-coverts huffy whitish, 

 browner on the upper margin ; cheeks, throat, aud fore neck whitish, 

 slightly washed with fulvous ; chest and remainder of the under 

 surface faint yellowish buff, inclining to tawny buff on the sides of 

 the body and flanks; thighs rufous ; abdomen a little whiter; under 

 tail-coverts fulvescent; under wing-coverts and axillaries fulves- 

 cent, inclining to rufous on the lower series ; quills dusky brown 

 below, inner edges rufescent. Total length 5-3 inches, culmen 0-5, 

 wing 1-9, tail 2-6, tarsus 0'7o. (J/ms. Berol.) 



A specimen in the British Museum from Tete measures : — Total 

 length 4-5 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 1-75, tail 2-35, tarsus 0*8. It 

 agrees very well with the type of D. hivittata, kindly lent me by 

 Professor Peters, but is much smaller, being perhaps a female ; the 

 colours are paler and the head not so dusky, but more like the rest 



