IG. ARGYA. 393 



Ilab. Found from Sindh eastwards through Lower Bengal, hut 

 docs not extend into Central or Southern India ; it is very common, 

 however, in the Burmese countries as far as Thayetmyo. 



a, b, c. Ad. sk. N.W. Himalayas. Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill 



fp.]. 

 d, e. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. II. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



(Types of Malacocercits (/eochrous, Hodgs.) 

 f, q, h. Ad. sk. Nepal (Hodijson). India Museum. 



/, 'k. Ad. sk. Nepal. P.. II. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



/. Ad. sk. Bengal {As. Soc). India Museum. 



in. Ad. sk. Dacca [Tijtler). India Museum. 



n. 5 ad. sk. Calcutta. Major J. Biddulph [C] 



o. Ad. sk. Near Ava. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 



;). d" ad. sk. Pegu, July 8. E. W. Gates, Esq. [C.]. 



q. $ ad. sk. Lower Pegu, Jan. 13. E. W. Gates, Esq. [C.]. 



r. Ad. sk. India. Purchased. 



7. Argya caudata. 



Cossyphus caudatus, Drapiez, Bid. Class. d'lIUt. Nat. x. p. 219. 

 Timalia chatorhcea, Frankl. P. Z. S. 1831, p. 118; id. J. A. S. Beng. 



i. p. 313 (1832): Sykes, P.Z.S. 18.32, p. 89; Jerd. Madt: Journ. 



X. p. 2(jO (1839). 

 Malacocircus chattarha?a, Blyth, J. A. S. Bemj. xiii. p. 369 (1844) ; 



Jvrd. III. Lid. Oni. text to pi. 19(1847). 

 Timalia caudata. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 228 (1845). 

 Malacocercus caiidatiis, Bh/lh, Cat. B. Mm. As. Soc. p. 141 (1849) ; 



Bp. Consp. i. p. 373 (1830) ; Horsf. li, Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. 



Mus. i. p. 223 (1854) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 279, no. 411(3 (18G9). 

 Chatorliea caudata, Biytli, J. A. S. Bene/, xxiv. p. 478 (1856) ; Jerd. 



B. Ind. ii. p. 67 ( I8(i.!) ; Bli/th, Ibis, 1867, p. 6 ; Beav. t. c. p. 438; 



Jerd. Ibis, 1872, p. 310; Lloyd, Ibis, 1872, p. 310; Batter, Str. F. 



1872, p. 472 ; Hume, Nests S; Eyqs Ind. B. p. 274 (1873) ; id. Str. 



F. 1873, p. 180; Adam, t. c. p. 378; Ball, Str. F. 1874, p. 409, 



1875, p. 206 ; Fairb. Sir. F. 1876, p. 258 ; Hume, t. c. p. 458, 



1879, p. 97 ; Butler, Cat. B. Sind etc. p. 29 (1879). 

 Crateroi)us caudatus, Blanf. Ibis, 1874, p. 76 ; Bh/th S,- Wald. B. 



Burm. p. 118 (1875) ; Fairb. Str. F. 1876, p. 258; Oates, B. Brit. 



Burm. p. 32 (1883). 



Adult. General colour ahove light earthy hrown, broadly streaked 

 with hlackish brown down the centres of the feathers, these streaks 

 less distinct on the rump and under tail-coverts, which are more 

 ashy brown ; wing-coverts asliy brown with darker brown shaft- 

 lines, Avhich are also seen on the inner secondaries ; the primaries 

 brown, witli ashy-brown margins ; tail-feathers light brown, edged 

 with ashy ])rown and very plainly barred with dusky brown, the 

 outer feathers fulvescent along the outer web and at the tips ; lores 

 ashy wliite, surmounted by a line of fulvescent white, with narrow 

 blackish shaft-lines ; ear-eovcrts uniform brown with a reddish 

 tinge ; the sides of the neck also tinged withrut'ous; feathers below tlie 

 fore part of the eye and at l)ase of lower mandible, cheeks, and throat 

 white, the hitter washed with isabelline on tlie lower part ; fore 

 neck, breast, and centre of body light isabelline, as also the thighs 



