140 nruoNicE. 



M, 0, p. Ad. sk. Kamptee. JDr. B. Hiiide [P.]. 



q, r. Juv. sk. Kamptee. Dr. B. Hinde [P.]. 



s. Ad. sk. Western Gliats. J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 



t, u. Ad. St. Madras. Rev. II. II. Baber []'.]. 



V. 5ad.sk. Kalagan, Baluchistan, W. T. Blauford, Esq. | C.]. 



March 10, 1872. 



8ubsp. a. Carine piilchra. 



Athene pulchra, Hume, Sir. F. i. p. 4(i0 ; id. op. cit. iii. p. 39. 

 Carine pulchra, Shmye, Ihis, 1875, p. 258. 



Adult male. General colour above slaty brown, with more or less 

 concealed spots of white, very small on the head, where they arc 

 rather plainly defined ; liind nock barred with white, forming an 

 indistinct kind of collar ; scapulars barred across with white, broader 

 on the outer web ; wing-coverts dark slaty colour, externally notched 

 with white, the median and greater series with large rounded spots 

 of Avhite on the outer web ; jjrimary-coverts and quills dark slate- 

 colour, notched on the outer web and barred on the inner one with 

 white ; tail slaty brown, crossed with six narrow bars of white, 

 rather broader on the outer feather ; forehead and eyebrow white, 

 the lores developing into hair-like bristles ; fore part of cheeks 

 whitish ; ear-coverts dark slaty, barred across with white ; entire 

 throat white, extending backwards in a triangular patch below the 

 ear-coverts, a black mark running down the sides of the neck ; rest 

 of under surface white, barred with ashy brown, the bars getting 

 fainter on the lower flanks; leg-feathers and under tail-coverts pure 

 white ; under wing-coverts white, the lower series ashy brown at 

 tip, and resembling the inner lining of the quills, which are ashy 

 brown below, barred with white ; bill brownish, the tip and the 

 culmen greenish yellow. Total length 8 inches, wing 5-5, tail 3-5, 

 tarsus 1-05. {Mus. li. G. Wardhnv- liamsai/.) 



Ohs. The above description is taken from a Thayetmyo skin, col- 

 lected by Lieut. Wardlaw-Eamsay, and kindly lent me by Lord 

 Walden. Mr. Hume has also been so good as to lend me a bird 

 from the same place ; but it does not show the characters so well as 

 the bird described by me. His skin measures : — Total length 7 

 inches, wing 5-4, tail 3"1, tarsus 1-1. I consider that C. pulchra 

 may very fairly be separated from C. hrama, as the characters seem 

 quite constant, to judge from three other Burmese specimens exa- 

 mined by me in Lord Walden's collection. Mr. Hume also writes : — 

 " I have now four good specimens before me, two of them sent by 

 Mr. Gates ; and it appears to me certain that they must be separated. 

 I do not suppose that these birds weigh much more than half what 

 our Indian ones do. In length they vary from 7'25 to 7'8 inches 

 against 8 to 9-5 inches in C. brama, while the wings vary from 5-3 

 to 5'8 inches against G to 6-65 inches; and an expanse of 19 to 

 19-5 inches against 21 to 22-5 inches in the Indian bird. No doubt 

 the general character of the plumage is the same as in C. brama ; 

 but the spotting of the head is smaller and neater. The general 

 colour of the upper surface is a darker and purer brown : the dark 



