31. CKATEE0PT7S. 481 



secondaries lighter brown ; tail-feathers dark brown, ashy at their 

 bases and for a considerable distance up the centre feathers the 

 outer ones with pale ends ; head creamy buff, fading off on the hind 

 neck into the brown of the back ; lores and feathers round the eye 

 like the crown ; cheeks and car-coverts dark brown washed with 

 fulvous-brown, with which colour the feathers are edged • throat 

 blackish brown, obscured by fulvous-brown margins ; remainder of 

 under sui-face ashy brown, the centre of the body clear pale fulvous 

 the chest mottled with dark-brown bases to the feathers • all the 

 feathers of the chest and sides of the body with white shaft-streaks 

 as also the under tail-coverts, which are ashy fulvous ; under wino-- 

 coverts and axillaries isabelline buff; quiUs dark brown below is^- 

 belline along the margin of the inner web ; " bill yellowish •' leo-s 

 fleshy yeUow ; iris yellowish white " {Jerdon). Total length 8^5 

 inches, culmen ()-75, wing 3-8, tail 4, tarsus 1-3. 



ITrt?* South India, extending as high as the Godavery valley, 

 tapt. Wardlaw Eamsay possesses a specimen said to have been ob- 

 tained near Tonghoo ; but this locality is extremely doubtful. 



f "ff ^}- ^^^^- Dr. Bum rp.l 



6. Ad.sk. I^dia Major-Geu.Hardwicke[P.]. 



c. Ad.sk. S. India (^s.^bc). India Museum. ^ ^ 



Ta 1 ^r^'f'^'- r '^- C- Jerdon, Esq. [P.l. 



e Ad. sk. Madi'as {Jerdon). Gould Collection 



^' A J n ■ Travancore. Major Biddidph rC.l 



g. Ad. sk. Deccan {Sykes). India Museuui. 



13. Crateropus striatus. 



Malacocercus striatus, Sicains. Zool. Illustr n s pi 1^7 C18.31) • 

 MB. Ind. i. p 59 {im^UBhjth, Ibis, 1867, p. 300; Gray, 

 Hand-L B i. p. 29/, no. 4109 (1869) ; Soldsw. P.Z.S. 1872 

 p. 449; Hume, Str. F. 1878, p. 385; id. Str. F. 1879 n 97- 

 Lerjye, B. Ceylon, p. 494 (1879). ' P' ' ' 



Malacocercus beugaleiisis {non Blyth), Kelaart, Prodr. Cat p l-:>2 

 (lS.y2) ; Layard, Ann. S)- May. Nat. Hist. (2) xii. p. 271 (18.j3)." 



Adult male (KUlopana, Colombo, July 17, 1870; W. V. Leo-o-g) 

 General colour above earthy brown, washed with greyish brown" on 

 the head, mantle, and back, the feathers of the latter liavinn- obscure 

 central paler streaks; lower back, nimp, and upper tafl-coverts 

 light earthy brown and entirelj- uniform, the latter slightly washed 

 with fulvous ; wiug-coverts ashy brown with pale shaft-lines the 

 greater series naiTowly edged with pale ashy ; quills brown, ashy 

 on the outer webs of the secondaries, which are obscurely barred 

 with dusky, the primaries externaUy margined with pale ashy or 

 whity brown ; tail-feathers dark brown, ashy near the base and for 

 a considerable waj- up the middle feathers, all of them barred under 

 certain lights : lores and feathers round the eve dull white ; cheeks 

 and ear-coverts light ashy, with narrow pale shaft-lines to the 

 latter ; throat and chest ashy, washed with fulvous-brown on the 

 latter and on the breast and Hanks ; the centre of the body and 



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