11. CARCINEUTES. 199 



Sir. F. vi. pp. 79, 499 (1878 : Tenasserim) ; Hiane, Sfr. F. viii. pp. 49 

 (JNlaLicca), 86 (1879) ; Binyhain, t. c. p. 193 (Thoungyeen Valley) ; 

 Gotild, B. Asia, i. pi. 48 (1880) ; Kelham, Ibis, 1881, p. 381 (Perak) ; 

 Miill. J. f. 0. 1882, p. 399 (Salanga) ; Oates, Handb. B. Brit. Bunn. 

 ii. p. 86 '(1883) ; Nichols. Ibis, 1883, p. 243. 

 Carcineutes amabilis, Hume, Str. F. i. p. 474 (1873 : Pegu Hills) ; 

 Sharpe, op. cit. p. 484 ; Hume, t. c. p. 485 ; Hume, Str. F. iii. p. 51 

 (1875) ; Gould, B. Asia, i. pi. 50 (1880). 



Adult male. Above regularly banded with black and blue, and 

 also with white, the latter concealed to a great extent, the blue bars 

 terminal ; wing-coverts like the back and similarly banded ; the 

 greater coverts black, externally spotted with white; bastard-wing, 

 primary-coverts, and quills black, externally spotted with white, the 

 spots larger on the secondaries, the inner ones barred across with 

 white; tail-feathers banded with black and blue, with concealed white 

 bars on the inner web, corresponding to the external blue bars on the 

 outer web; forehead chestnut, forming a broad frontal band; remainder 

 of crown deep cobalt-blue, with a subterminal black bar, the bases 

 silvery white, producing a slightly mottled appearance ; sides of 

 face, car-coverts, and cheeks deep chestnut, extending backwards to 

 the sides of the neck and forming a broad collar round the hind 

 neck ; throat white ; fore neck, breast, and sides of the body deep 

 ochreous buff; abdomen and under tail-coverts white ; under wing- 

 coverts pale ochreous buff; quills dusky below, ochreous along the 

 inner web : " bill vermilion-red, the base of the lower mandible 

 brownish red ; gape generally yellowish white ; legs and feet dull 

 pale greeu ; claws black; iris purplish grey" (W. Davison). Total 

 length 8 inches, culmen 1"5, wing 3"3, tail 2*7, tarsus 0-5. 



Adult female. General colour above ochreous buff, banded with 

 black ; the head blacker, more narrowly barred with ochreous than 

 the back, wings, and tail, which are like the back ; quills black, 

 externally notched with ochraceous buff; sides of the face, cheeks, 

 and ear-coverts black, barred with ochraceous buff; throat and 

 under surface of body white, with a few scattered black spots on the 

 chest, larger and inclining to bars on the sides of the body ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries white. Total length 8 inches, culmen 1*5, 

 wing 3'45, tail 3'1, tarsus 5. 



Ilab. Prom the hills of Siam and the Burmese Provinces south 

 through Tenasserim and the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra and Java, 



a, b. d" ad. sk. Karen Hills, Oct. {E.G. W.R.). Tweeddale Coll. 



(', d. (5 5 ad. Eastern Pegu Hills, April {E. Hume Coll. 



sk. W. Oates). (Types of C. amabilis.) 



c,f- 6 ^d. ; q, ThouugveenVallev,Tenasserim, Hume Coll. 



h.' $ ad. sk. Jan., Feb., March ( C. T. Bing- 

 ham), 



i, k. 2 ad. sk. Near Mooleyit, Jan. ( W. Lim- Tweeddale Coll. 



borg). 



I. c? ad. sk. Meetan, Feb. 28 ( W. Davison). Hume Coll. 



m, n. cJ ad. et Amherst, Dec, Jan., June, July Hume Coll. 



juv.; o,p,<j. 2 ( W. Davison). 



ad. et juv. sk. 



r, s. (S 2 ii-d. sk. Tavoy, April (J. Darling). Hume Coll. 



