92 BunoNiD.T:. 



spots or streaks of blackish brown, much narrower and more linear 

 on the abdomen and Hank-feathers ; under tail-coverts nearly uni- 

 ibrni sandy butf, with a few wavy lines of blackish near the tips of 

 tlie feathers ; leg-feathers sandy buff, the tarsal plumes crossed with 

 distinct wavy blackish cross lines ; under wing-coverts sandy buff, 

 the inner ones nearly uniform, the outermost mottled or barred with 

 dark brown near the edge of the wing, which is whitish, the lower 

 series entirely ashy brown, the inner lining of the quills nearly uni- 

 form ashy brown, barred with yelloAvish white near the base of the 

 inner web, and with sandy buff near the tips of the feathers ; upper 

 wing-coverts darker than the back, being blackish brown, the 

 sjmrious quills externally notched with sandy buff, the innermost 

 of the least series sandy biiif, mottled with zigzag blackish lines, the 

 greater series dark brown, widely notched with sandy buff towards 

 the tip of the outer web ; primary coverts blackish brown, with in- 

 distinct indications of sandy buff bars, thickly obscured with blackish 

 vermicidations ; quills dark brown, barred with lighter or ashy 

 brown on the inner webs, these light bars being represented by cor- 

 responding ones of sandy buff on the outer webs of the primaries, 

 giving a chequered appearance to the external aspect of the wing ; 

 the secondaries outwardly sandy buff, vermiculated with lines of 

 dark brown, the innermost sandy brown, mottled and vermicidated 

 exactly like the scapulars ; rump and upper tail-coverts darker 

 sandy brown than the back, thickly obscured with blackish vermi- 

 culatious ; tail dark brown, mottled with sandy buff, nowhere form- 

 ing very distinct bars, and particularly broken up towards the tips 

 of the feathers ; on the outer ones the bars a little more distinct, 

 about eight being distinguishable, all the light markings every- 

 where somewhat obscm-ed by brown vermiculations. Total length 

 8"5 inches, wing 5-8, tail 3'1, tarsus 1-25. 



Hah. Borneo, Bangka, Java, Sumatra, Malayan pcninsida, ranging 

 northwards into Tenasserim, and occiirring in the neighbourhood of 

 Calcutta. 



Sunda Islands. Purchased. 



Sunda Islands. Purchased. 



Borneo. Hugh Low, Esq. [C.]. 



Sumatra. A. R. Wallace, p]sq. [C.l. 



Malacca, A. Pi. Wallace, Esq. [G.]. 



Malacca. E. B. Shai-pe, Esq. [P.] 



Malacca. W. Harvey, Esq. fP.]. 



Malacca. W. Hai-vey, Esq. [P.]. 



Malacca. Purchased. 



Malacca. I'urchased. 



Malacca. Earl of Ellenborough [P.]. 



Singapore. Earl of Ellenborough [P.]. 



Ohs. The present species in its typical form has but two phases, 

 a brown and a rufous one, the latter being the usual colouring, the 

 former very rare in comparison with it. It never shows a grey 

 phase like S. lettia, and is always distinguished by its completely 

 unfeathcred toes. 



