68 BrBONiD.T:. 



Adult. Above clear cinnamon nifous, nearly uniform, most of the 

 feathers with a narrow central shaft-line of black, a little broader 

 on the crown ; scapulars externally yellowish buff or pure white, 

 with a black subterminal bar ; wing-coverts rufous like the back, 

 with the same dusky black shaft-lines, broader on the greater series, 

 which are white at the tips of their external webs ; the spurious 

 quiUs externally whitish, broadly barred with dark brown ; primary 

 coverts cinnamon, with a spot of yellowish white near the tip of the 

 outer web, the inner webs blackish brown ; quills duU cinnamon 

 rufous, not so bright as the back, with faint cross bars of brown, 

 almost obsolete on the innermost secondaries, less distinct on the 

 outer ones, but plainer on the primaries, many of the light inter- 

 spaces on the outer webs of the latter inclining to whitish : tail 

 cinnamon, the centre feathers nearly uniform, with only faint indi- 

 cations of narrow blackish cross lines, these broader and more distinct 

 on the outer feathers, the exterior ones ha\-ing slight indications of 

 whitish spots on the light interspaces ; lores white, the elongated 

 bristly shafts blackish at tip ; over the eye a patch of white feathers, 

 narrowly margined with black at their tips ; sides of face cinnamon, 

 with sUvery white shaft-lines to the feathers ; behind the ear- 

 coverts an indistinct ruff of deep cinnamon feathers, broadly termi- 

 nated with black : plumes on the chin whitish ; chest cinnamon, 

 some of the feathers buflPy white at the tips, with broad mesial 

 streaks of black ; rest of under surface of body for the most part 

 white, broadly streaked down the centre with black, many of the 

 feathers bari'cd with cinnaraou, these light bars conterminously 

 freckled with zigzag lines of blackish, the flank-feathers more in- 

 clining to cinnamon, especially on the inner webs ; i.inder tail- 

 covei+s nearly entirely white, washed with pale cinnamon near the 

 base, and at the tips witli a few indications of a central streak of 

 dark brown ; leg-feathers whitish on the outer face of the tarsus, 

 the thighs and upper part of the latter cinnamon ; imder wing- 

 coverts yellowish, those near the margin of the wing rufous, mottled 

 with brown, the edge of the wing white; lower series of coverts 

 ashy brown, yellowish at base ; inner lining of quills Hght cin- 

 namon, indistinctly barred with ashy brown, plainly near the base, 

 but disappearing towards the tips of the quills ; bill dusky horn- 

 colour ; feet fleshy brown ; iris bright yellow. Total length 6-7 

 inches, wing o'3, tail 2-5, tarsus 0"9. 



Obs. The description is from one of Hodgson's skins ; but 

 some specimens show considerable diiferences, principally on the 

 breast and abdomen, both the Penang and Madras specimens having 

 the central black streaks very indistinct on the underparts, while 

 they vary inter se in the mottling of the abdomen ; the leg- feathers 

 also are white, distinctly striated with blackish, whereas the Nepal 

 bird scarcely shows any streaks on the tarsus. The Penang spe- 

 cimen shows slight indications of blackish frccklings on the upper 

 parts ; but this appearance is figured by Hodgson, who appears to 

 have regarded this specimen as a more adult bird. The greatest 

 difference of all is observable in the tail of the Penang Scojis, this 



