86 



BUIiOKll)^. 



Jenl. B. Iiid. i. p. lo8; Blyth, Ibis, 18G6, p. 250; JcrtL Ibis, 1871, 



p. 25(5. 

 Lempijius lettia, Up. Hec. et Maij. do Zool. 1854, p. 54;}. 

 Epbialtes lettia, Ilaiiie, Roiiyh Notes, ii. p. 39.3; Jerd. Ibis, 1871, 



p. 347. 



Adult (grey phase). General colour grejish brown, more or less 

 inclining to an oehraceous shade, all the upper surface thickly mottled 

 Avith wa\-}' cross Hues of black, the feathers at the same time varied 

 ■with ochi'aceous, forming concealed irregtilar bars of this colour ; 

 forehead and sides of crown greyish white, the feathers crossed with 

 narrow wavy lines of brown, extending right to the ear-tufts, which 

 arc greyish white or buff on the inner web, the outer webs brown, 

 slightly freckled with sandy buff ; crown rather more rufous or sandy 

 brown, the feathers closely vermiculated with blackish lines, and 

 much varied with oehraceous buif spots ; round the nape an indistinct 

 collar of ochraceoits feathers, all with more or less characterized cross 

 vermiculations of dark brown ; below this fii-st coUar the hind neck 

 is again dark browTi, exactly like the head, and this is succeeded by 

 another oehraceous buff collar round the hind neck, the frccklings 

 of brown on these feathers being somewhat coarser, and the blackish 

 tips rather broader ; scapulars externally oehraceous buff, some of 

 them almost entirely of this colour on both webs, the vermiculations 

 disappearing towards the outer webs ; wing-coverts dark browir, 

 freckled with blackish vermiculations exactly like the back, the 

 central streaks to the feathers darker, both the median and greater 

 series whitish at the tips, the frecklings gradually disappearing ; 

 primary coverts sandy brown, freckled with dark brown, the latter 

 colour forming also three or four distinct bars across them ; quills 

 brown, barred with lighter brown, these light bars paler externally 

 and mottled with dark brown vermiculations, the primaries exter- 

 nally whitish on the interspaces, causing a chequered appearance on 

 the outer aspect of the wing, the inner secondaries greyish like the 

 back and mottled with blackish vermiculations precisely in the same 

 manner ; tail oehraceous brown, regularly barred with darker brown, 

 the dark bars being about ten on the outer feathers, less distinct at 

 their tips, the light interspaces freckled vrith dark brown vermicu- 

 lations ; lores whitish, the long shaft-stripes blackish at tip ; over 

 the eye a patch of whitish feathers, narrowly margined at the tip 

 with blackish ; sides of face greyish white, indistinctly waved with 

 narrow cross lines of brown, the hinder ear-coverts broadly tipped 

 with black ; behind the ear-coverts an indistinct ruff of pale oehra- 

 ceous buff" feathers, rather broadly tii:)ped mth blackish, a little 

 narrower under the throat ; chin whitish ; rest of under surface 

 greyish white, the blackish shaft-lines not very strongly pronounced, 

 all the feathers narrowly waved with cross lines of brown, disap- 

 pearing on the centre of the abdomen and under tail-coverts, which 

 are pure white ; leg-feathers silky white, with a few indications of 

 narrow brown cross markings ; iinder wing-coverts yellowish white, 

 mottled with cross lines of dark brown near the edge of the wing. 



