648 MOTACrLLID-aE. 



1876, p. 330; Butler, Str. F. 1877, p. 230; Anders. Zool. Exped. 

 Tim-nan, p. 608 (1878); Sume i^- Davis. Str. F. 1878, pp. 365, 

 519 ; Davids. 8,- Wetiden. Str. F. 1878, vol. ii. p. 84 ; Murray, t. c. 

 p. 109 ; Smlly, Str. F. 1879, p. 316 ; Oatcs, B. Brit. Burm. i. 

 p. 171 (1883). 

 Pipastes agilis, Blanf. J. A. S. Beng. 1872, p. 60 : Dybowski, Bull. 

 Soc. Zool. France, viii. p. 261 (1883, nee Sykes). 



Aihilt. General coloiir above nearly uniform olive-brown, with a 

 few dusky streaks on the head, mantle, and back ; the lower back 

 and rump entirely uniform ; the streaks most distinct on the crown; 

 lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median and greater wing-coverts 

 dusky brown, externally olive-brown, the median series tipped with 

 yellowish white ; bastard-wing blackish brown ; primary-coverts 

 and quills dark brown, edged with olive-brown like the back, the 

 first primary white along the margin of the outer web ; centre tail- 

 feathers dark brown, edged with oUve, the remainder pointed, edged 

 narrowly with olive and tipped with white ; the penultimate feather 

 with a wedge-shaped spot of white at the end of the inner web ; the 

 outer feathers white, smoky brown towards the tip of the outer web, 

 and with an oblique mark of dark brown on the inner web ; eyelid 

 and a broad eyebrow fulvous, becoming whiter above the ear-coverts ; 

 lores, feathers below the eye, and ear-coverts sandy butf, the latter 

 dusky on the hinder margin ; cheeks and throat uniform sandy buff, 

 separated by a narrow black malar strealc ; fore neck, chest, and 

 flanks sandy buff, all broadly spotted with triangular black mark- 

 ings, more longitudinal on the sides of the body, which are washed 

 with olive-brown ; breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts white, 

 the former spotted with black, the latter unspotted : thighs white ; 

 under wing-coverts smoky brown, edged with olive-yellow ; under 

 wing-coverts also light smoky brown, washed with olive-yeUow, and 

 slightly mottled with dusky bases near the edge of the wing ; quills 

 dusky brown below, pale ashy along the inner web : " upper man- 

 dible black ; lower mandible livid at tip, pale fleshy at base ; feet 

 pale reddish-fleshy ; iris dark brown '' (Scully) ; " feet light flesh- 

 colour " (Blaliston). Total length 6 inches, culmen 0'55, wing 3-5, 

 tail 2-6, tarsus 0-85. 



This species maintains throughout its life the olive-green color- 

 ation, wliich, at any ago or season, distinguishes it from A. aboreus. 

 In summer, when the plumage is much worn, the throat is white 

 below, the spots on the breast very black and distinct, and the back 

 becomes very distinctly streaked with black, which is very pro- 

 nounced on the head and over the eye. 



In autumn plumage the black spots on the breast are somewhat 

 less pronounced, and the throat is a beautiful buff-colour, almost 

 tawny in some specimens. 



Some individuals from the North-west Himalayas appear to me 

 to be somewhat intermediate between A.maculatus and A. trlvialis, 

 partaking of the more distinct striping of the upper surface charac- 

 teristic of the latter bird, but still retaining the green tinge of colour 

 peculiar to A. maculatus. 



