57. PLocEus. 497 



Adult male. Similar to P. bdf/a, but without the yellow on the 

 breast ; the fore neck and breast, as well as the sides of the body, 

 tawny rufous or yellowish buff, these parts all forcibly streaked 

 ■with broad black centres to the feathers ; the throat sooty blackish 

 like the sides of face and ear-coverts ; nape and hind neck tawny 

 brown streaked with black like the back. Total leng-th 5-5 inches, 

 eulmen 0-7, wing 2'7o, tail l-G, tarsus O'S. 



Allah feinah. General colour above ashy brown, broadly streaked 

 with black, the feathers of the mantle and scapulars margined with 

 tawny buff; wing-coverts blackish, edged with whity brown or 

 tawny buff; bastard- wing, primary-coverts, quiUs and tail-feathers 

 blackish, margined with olive-yellow ; crown of head like the 

 back, but less distinctly streaked ; lores dusky ; eyebrow white 

 tinged with yellow, extending in a streak behind the ear-coverts ; 

 sides of face and ear-coverts sooty blackish ; cheeks and under 

 surface of body white, with a yellow tinge on the breast ; the fore 

 neck, breast, sides of body, and flanks distinctly streaked with 

 black, more broadly on the latter ; thighs white, also streaked with 

 black ; under tail-coverts buffy white ; imder wing-coverts tawny 

 buff; quills below dusky, ashj' rufous along the inner edge : "bill 

 brown above, darkening on the eulmen towards the tip, pale yel- 

 lowish flesh-colour below ; feet flesh-colour ; iris dark brown " 

 (E. A. Butler). Total length 5"2 inches, eulmen 0'7, wing 2"65, 

 tail 1"6, tarsus 0'85. 



Adult in winter plumage. Resembles the plumage of the adult 

 female, but are always much more tawny, especially on the foie 

 neck and breast, which are both strongly streaked with black centres 

 to the feathers, the throat ashy or blackish, the yellow eyebrow 

 and streak behind the ear-coverts and the cheek-stripe all well pro- 

 nounced. 



You)u/. Much more tawny buft' than the adults, broadly streaked 

 with black ; the greater coverts, quills, and tail-feathers edged with 

 olive-yellow ; under surface of body deep tawny buff. After the first 

 moult the young birds resemble the old female, but are much more 

 tawny rufous, -with the throat washed with yellow. 



Hah. Ceylon and the greater part of the Indian Peninsula from 

 Sind to Assam, and south to Tenasserim ; Java. 



fl, b.' Ad. sk. Ceylon. Tweeddale Coll. 



c. S iiA-', d. Juv. Vellarney Lake, Travancore, Hume Coll. 



sk. Jinie i!l {F. Buardilion). 



e,f- d ; !/■ ^ ad. Belgaum, Sept., Oct. {E. A. Hume Coll. 



"sk. Butler). 



h. 2 ad. sk. Siud, Feb. 28. Hume Coll. 



j_„. ^; r^s. 2 ad. Sind, Dec. to April {A. Hume Cull. 



sk. O.H.). 



t. c? ad. sk. Hvderabad, May 27 {E. A. Hume Coll. 



"Butler), 



u. S ; ''i ''^'- ? ''id. Futtehpur, Sind (Dr. If. India Museum. 



sk. Gould). 



.r. d ad. sk. Etawah, May (,\V. E. Hume Cull. 

 Brooks). 



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