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/6w, 1882, p. 116; Scehohm, t. c. p. -Ill ; Biddulph, t. c. p. 285; 



Svebohm, Ibis, 1883, p. 11 ; Dresser, Ibis, 1889, p. 91 ; St. John, 



t. c. p. 173. 

 Phileremos scriba, Bp. Comp. List, p. 37 (1838). 

 Otocoris scriba, Bp. Consp. i. p. 246 (1850); Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. 



p. 117, no. 7736 (1870). 

 Otocoris albigiila, Bp. Consp. i. p. 246 (1850) ; Detjl. ^- Gerbe, Orn. 



Eur. i. p. 348 (1867). 

 Otocorvs bilopha {nee Temm.), Cab. Sf Heine, Mus. Ilein. i. p. 122 



(1850). 

 Otocoris larvata, Filippi, Arch. ZuoL Anat. etc. ii. p. 382 (1863) ; 



id. Viagg. Pers. p. 348 (1865) ; S(dvad. Atti R. Accad. Torino, iii. 



p. 295 (1867); Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 117, no. 7743 (1869); 



Schalow, J.f. 0. 1876, p. 183. 



Adidt male in winter plumage. General colour above ashy with a 

 slight ochreous tinge, and with slight indications of dusky blackish 

 streaks on the lower back ; the upper tail-coverts marked with 

 vinaceous and centred with dusky ; lesser wing-coverts vinous ashy ; 

 the median and greater series as well as the primary-coverts dusky, 

 edged externally with ashy, whitish on the margins, the inner 

 greater coverts and inner secondaries externally sandy brown, the 

 outer primary white along its outer web ; centre tail-feathers 

 ashy with more or less of a sandy tinge near the base, the centres 

 dark brown ; remainder of the tail-feathers black, the penultimate 

 one edged with white, the outermost white along the outer web ; 

 crown of head like the back and slightly tinged with vinous like the 

 hind neck ; the forehead yellowish ashy, the black frontal band and 

 the feathered horns obscured by dusky ashy mai'gins ; eyebrow pale 

 sulphur-yellow ; nasal plumes, lores, and extreme base of forehead, 

 as well as the sides of the face, black, more or less obscured with 

 yellowish tips to the feathers ; cheeks and throat pale sulphur-yel- 

 low ; lower throat and a broad band on the fore neck black, obscured 

 with yellowish margins to the feathers and joined to the black on 

 the ear-coverts ; remainder of under surface of body dull white, 

 with ashy tips to the feathers of the chest ; sides of body and thighs 

 washed with -^hIq vinous : under wing-coverts and axillaries white ; 

 quills ashy below, white along the inner webs : " bill blackish above, 

 bluish grey below ; tarsi and upper surface of toes black, claws 

 black, soles of feet whitish ; iris deep reddish brown " ( W. T. 

 Blanford). Total length 7"4 inches, culmen 0'6, wing 4-75, tail 3, 

 tarsus 0"9. 



The summer plumacje is gained by the shedding of the pale tips to 

 the plumage, and as this process progresses the black band on the 

 crown and the feathered horns, as well as the white forehead and 

 eyebrows, become visible, and the black of the face and throat is at 

 once strongly developed ; the hinder crown and hind neck become 

 entirely vinaceous, in contrast to the grey back, in which the blackish 

 centres to the feathers are well pronounced. 



Adult female. Wants the black band across the crown, the head 

 and back being very distinctly streaked with blackish brown ; 

 the whole general appearance of the bird more dusky than in the 



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