1. KETUPA. 5 



pulars mottled with paler fulvous than rest of back, contrasting 

 somewhat with the latter ; least wing-coverts coloured like back, the 

 greater ones with broad creamy buff margins externally, the outer- 

 most of the latter series and the primary coverts dark brown, with 

 distinct fawn-coloured spots ; quilLs dark brown, the primaries tipped 

 and distinctly spotted on the outer web with creamy buff, the cor- 

 responding bars on the inner webs being dull fawn-brown, the outer 

 secondaries brown Hke the primaries, but the spots and bars less 

 distinct and more mottled with brown, the innermost secondaries 

 coloured like the back ; tail dark brown, tipped and crossed with 

 four bars of light fulvous fawu ; loral plumes whitish ; cheeks and 

 ear-coverts dull rufous, with narrow black shaft-lines ; auricular 

 tufts coloured like head ; chin and throat white, streaked with dark 

 brown, the lower throat purer white, and forming a gular patch ; 

 rest of under surface of body fidvous fawn-colour, deeper and more 

 rufescent on the chest, all the feathers with broad longitudinal 

 streaks of black down their centres, and crossed with more or less 

 distinct barrings of light fulvous, both the bars and mesial streaks 

 being less distinct on the under taU-coverts ; thighs uniform light 

 fawn with obsolete rufous bars ; under wing-coverts light fawn, 

 barred and streaked like the breast, the greater series whitish, with 

 narrow black shaft-lines, the outermost coverts largely spotted with 

 black, and tipped and mottled with fulvous ; greater series blackish 

 brown at tip, yellowish white at base, like the inner lining of the 

 wing, which is barred with these colours ; cere greenish grey ; bill 

 dingy greenish, point of upper mandible blackish horny, of the lower 

 mandible yellowish ; feet dingy greenish grey, light greenish, or 

 plumbeous ; iris bright yellow. Total length 24-5 inches, culmen 

 2-5, wing 16, tail 8, tarsus 2-65. 



Adult male. For full dimensions of the two sexes of this species 

 see Hume's ' Rough Notes,' ii. p. 379, where every comparative 

 measurement is given. The wing of the male is there said to mea- 

 sure from 16'5 to 18 inches. 



Hab. India generally and Ceylon, extending eastwards into 

 Assam, Arakan, and Tenasserim. Found also near Hong-Kong in 

 China. 



Rev. H. H. Baber [P.]. 

 B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 

 B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 

 B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 

 Major-Gen. Hardwicke [P.j. 

 Purchased. 



2. Ketupa flavipes. 



Cultrunguis flavipes, Hodys. J. A. S. B. v. p. .364. 



Ketupa flavipes, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. -38 ; Cass. Cat. Str{yid<e Philad. 



Mus. p. 10; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 37; Bp. Consp. i. 



p. 45 ; Horsf. l<f Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. i. p. 76 ; Strickl. 



Orn. Syn. p. 106; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 135; Gray, Hand-l B. i. 



p. 45 ; Hume, Rouyh Xotes, i. p. 355. 



