394 TiMEI,IID,E. 



and under tail-coverts ; the sides of the body reddish fawn-colour, 

 with a few brown central streaks on the sides of the breast ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries paki fawn-colour ; quills light brown 

 below, pak^ fawn-colour along the edge of the inner web ; " bill pale 

 brownish horny ; legs dull yellow ; iris red-brown " (Jtrdon). Total 

 •length 8-5 inches, culmcn U"7, wing 3, tail 4-4, tarsus 1. 



I/ah. S])read over the whole of the Indian peninsula, ranging west- 

 wards into Scinde and eastwards into Assam and British liurmah. 



a. Ad.sk. Kurrachee, Sciude (Z>/-. if. India Museum. 



Guuld). 



b. Ad. sk. Eajkdte, Kattiawar, Nov. Major Hayes Lloyd [P.]. 



1871. 



c. d, e, f. Ad. sk. N. India. Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill 



[P.]. 



.9. Ad. sk. Behar. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.], 



h. J ad. sk. Kawul Pindi. Major J. liiddidph [U.l. 



i. 2 ad. sk. Saharunpoor. Major J. Biddidph [C.]. 



A. Ad. sk. Kamptee. Di-.'B. Iliude [P.]. 



I. Ad. sk. Deccan {Sijkes). India Museum. 



m. Ad. St. Nilghiris. Massena Collection. 



n. Ad. St. India. E. Wilson, Esq. [P.]. 



8. Argya eclipes. 



Chattarhoea caudata, Hume &)• Hcndeis. Lahore to Ycirk. p. 197, 



pi. ix. {iiec Dum.). 

 Chatorhaea eclipes, Hume. Sfr. F. 1877, p. 337 ; id. 8tr. F. 1879, 



p. 97. 



" Like Chaforhcea caudata, but much larger ; the upper surface 

 darker and more strongly striated ; tail more strongly banded ; fea- 

 thers of breast and sides dark-shafted." (Hume.) 



Bab. Punjab, Trans-Indus and the lower valleys of the surround- 

 ing hills. 



9. Argya huttoni. 



Malacocercus huttoni, lihjth, J. A. S. Benr/. xvi. p. 470 (1847); id. 



Ibis, 18(57, p. 6; Jerd. Ibis, 187:?, p. 310; Hume, Str. F. 1877, 



p. 337, 1879, p. 97. 

 Chattorhfea caudata (pt.), Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 67 (1863). 

 Crateropus salvadorii, l)e Fi/ij/ju, Viae/i/. Pers. p. 346 (1865). 

 Malacocercus huttoni, Orai/, Iland-l. B. i. p. 279, no. 4117 (1869). 

 Crateropus huttoni, Blanf. Ibis, 1874, p. 7-5 ; id. East. Pers. ii. p. 203, 



pi. xiii. tig. 1 (1876). 



Adult female. General colour above very pale ashy brown, streaked 

 with broad centres of dark brown ; lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts more greyish brown, with obscure brown centres ; wing- 

 coverts like the back, with narrow brown longitudinal centres ; pri- 

 mary-coverts and quills light brown, externall}' mai'giued with ashy 

 brown; tail-feathers asby brown, with duskj' cross bars under certain 

 lights, the outer feathers distinctly paler-edged along the outer web 

 and at the tip; lores dusky; ear-coverts uniform pale brown ; cheeks 



