254 TIMELITD^. 



lid brownish j-ellow ; iris reddish yellow " (Legge). Total length 

 4-3 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 1-8, tail 2-05, tarsus 0-75. 



A pair of birds from Mr. Oates's collection measures as follows : — 



The young bird differs very little from the adult, but seems to be 

 slightly more yellow on the throat. 



Winter plumage. Brown where the summer plumage is grey, but 

 without any distinct eyebrow ; the rump and upper tail-coverts more 

 rufescent ; wings with distinct rufous edgings to the coverts and 

 quills ; tail ashy as in adult, with white tips and subterminal black 

 bars ; below yellowish, with a strong ashy shade on the sides of the 

 body and flanks. Wing 1-85, tail 2-1. 



Captain Legge says that the female is smaller on the average than 

 the male ; it is less cinereous above, and the wings are paler brown ; 

 a light streak above the lores ; the pectoral band about the same 

 width, but much paler; flanks the same; iris as in the male; 

 tarsus not so clear in colour. 



According to the same observer the nestling just fledged has the 

 iris olive, the bill dai'k brown, yellow beneath at the base, the 

 legs and feet brownish yellow, the claws light yellowish. The 

 colour is brownish olivaceous above, inclining to rusty on the rump ; 

 wings brown, edged with light ferruginous ; beneath white, a faint 

 dark band across the chest, and a slight tinge of buff' over the 

 whole ; edge of wing white. For some little time the upj:>er 

 parts remain the same ; but the pectoral band darkens, the tips 

 of the rectrices are whiter than in the adult, and the soft parts 

 undergo a gradual change, the iris becomes yellow, the bill 

 blackish with a pale base below, and the legs less brownish. At 

 the end of the first year the head is cinereous as in the adult, but 

 the back is more olivaceous, the wing-coverts and quiUs still edged 

 rusty, and the pectoral band of not quite the normal depth, with 

 the lower part still tiuged with buff. During nonage females 

 are distinguishable at all ages by the pectoral band being lighter 

 than in the male and slightly incomplete in the centre. 



Hah. India and Ceylon, ranging eastwards into the Burmese 

 countries as far south as Pegu. 



«. c? ad. ; &. d" S.E. Ceylon, July 1873. Captain W.Vincent Legge 



juv.^ 



Cp.]. 



c. 2 ad.sk. Eastern Province, Coy- Captain W.Vincent Legge 



Ion, Sept. 10, 1875. [P.]. 



d, e. Ad. sk. Madras (Jerdon). Eyton Collection. 

 /. Ad. sk. Madras {Jerdon). Goidd Collection. 

 g, h. Ad. sk. Deccan (Si/kes). India Museum. 



V. Imm. sk. Barahaut, May 7, 18.54. A. O. Hume, Esq. 



A. Ad. sk. Muddapoor, June 30, 1880 Eugene W. Gates, Esq. 



{W.E.Brooks). 



