IG. AEGYA. 399 



Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 279, no. 4112 (1869) ; Jerd. Has, 1872, 

 p. 310; Hai/es Lloyd, Ibis, 1873, p. 410; Adam, Sfr. F. 1873, 

 p. 378 ; Butler, Sir. F. 1875, p. 472 ; Fairb. Sfr. F. 1876, p. 258 ; 

 Ball, Sfr. F. 1877, p. 416 ; Butler, Cat. B. Sind etc. p. 29 (1879). 



Malcoliuia albifrons, Bli/t/i, J. A. S. Beng. xxiv. p. 478 (1855). 



Ari^ya malcolmi, Hume, Sfr. F. 1879, p. 97. 



Adah (Decean ; Sykes : type of species). General colour above pale 

 brown, mottled ou the head, neck, mantle, and scapulars with darker 

 brown ; rump and upper tail-corerts ashy grey, lighter than the Ijack ; 

 wing-coverts pale brown, the quills dark brown, externally pale brown 

 like the back, the primaries having a narrow paler whity brown 

 edging near the tip ; tail-feathers brown, with dusky cross barrings 

 under certain lights, the three outside feathers ashy whitish, a 

 narrow edging of which appears also on the outer web of the fourth ; 

 base of forehead and lores hoary grey, with white shaft-lines, this 

 grey shade extending a little over the eye : below the fore part of 

 the eye a dusky brown spot ; ear-covei-ts light brown ; cheeks pale 

 vinous buff, the feathers at the gape and base of lower mandible 

 ashy ; under surface of body light fulvous, including the thighs and 

 under tail-coverts, the throat and breast pale vinous buff shaded with 

 ashy ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale fawn-buff; quills dull 

 brown below, lighter brown along the margin of the inuer web ; 

 " bill horny ; legs dirty yellow ; iris light yellow " (Jerdon). Total 

 length 11 inches, culraen O'So, wing -l-So, tail 5-4, tarsus 1*25. 



Young. Coloured like the adult, but much more fluffy and rather 

 more ashy, the u))per surface more uniform, and having none of the 

 dark centres to the feathers of the back. 



llah. Sindh and throughout the whole of North-western India, 

 whence it ranges down the western coast as far as the slopes of the 

 Neilgherries, becoming apparently more and more local and not so 

 generally distributed. It extends from the Decean to Allahabad ; 

 but east of this line it is by no means so common. 



a. Juv. sk. Madras. Sir W. Elliot [P.]. 



b. cS ad. sk. Western Ghats (^Couss- Gould Collection. 



maker^. 



c. Ad. sk. Decean (^Sykes). India Museum. (Type 



of species.) 



d. Ad. sk. Decean (Sykes). India Museum. 



e. Ad. ; f. Juv. sk. Saugor (^Hooper), India Museum. 



«jr, A. Ad. St. Bahar. B.H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



i. Ad. sk. N.W. Provinces. F. D. Godman and O. 



Salvin. Esqrs. [P.]. 

 k. Ad. sk. N.W. Provinces. Capt. Stackhouse I'in- 



will [P.]. 

 I. 2 ad. sk. N.W. Provinces. Capt. Stackhouse Pin- 



will [P.]. 

 m. Ad. sk. Gondul, Kattiawar, Major Hayes Lloyd [P.]. 



March 15, 1871. 



