9. MACEOPTERTX. 513 



(Malay Pen.) (1879) ; Vidal, ibid. ix. p. 48 (S. Konkan) ; Davicb- 

 son, ibid. x. p. 294 (Khandeisli) (1882) ; Davison, ibid. p. 348 

 (Mysore) (1882); Swinh. Ibis, 1885, p. GO (Centr. lod.) ; Barnes, 

 Bombay Journ. N. H. Soc. iii. pt. 1 (1888) (nest figiu-ed). 



Adult male. Lores deep black; a uarrow and indistinct line over 

 the eye -whitish ; iipper chin, moustache-stripe, and ear-coverts 

 light chestnut (hazel, Eidgw. Nomencl. Col. pi. iv. fig. 12) ; upper 

 plumage and sides of neck bluish ashy, with metallic greenish gloss 

 on the elongated feathers of the crown and the longest upper tail- 

 coverts ; throat, breast, and sides of body light grey, gradually 

 merging into the colour of the abdomen, which is white like the 

 vent and under tail-coverts ; upper wing-coverts metallic blue ; 

 under brownish grey ; wings and tail brown with metallic greenish 

 gloss : " iris dark brown, sometimes reddish hazel ; bill black ; legs 

 pinkish brown " (Oates). Total length nearly 9 inches, wing G-6-3, 

 tail 5-2. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in having no chestnut on 

 the head, the chin being like the throat ; the ear-coverts like the 

 sides of the neck, but darker ; the grey throat is separated from the 

 dark grey sides of the head by a whitish line. 



Young. With very broad brownish-grey and uarrow white edges 

 to the feathers of the upper parts, and dark brown subterminal bars 

 to those of the lower surface. 



This plumage is that of the very young. They seem to be whiter 

 again when in the nest, but assume the adult plumage at a very 

 early age. 



Hab. India and Ceylon, extending to Burma and Siam in the 

 East, and Tenasserim, except the southern portion, in the South. 



a. S ad. ; b. $ Dehra Doon. Pinwill Coll. 



ad. sk. 



c. (^ ad. sk. ; d. Beliar. Hodgson Coll. 



5 ad. St. 



e-ff. S ad. sk. Darjiling. Hume Coll. 



h, i. J ad. ; k. 2 Lower Hills, Bhootan, Jan., Hume Coll. 



ad. sk. Feb. (L.Mandelli). 



I. S ad. ; m. $ Maunbhoom, April {Benvan). Tweeddale Coll. 



ad. sk. 



n. S ad. ; o,p. $ Chanda, C. P. Blanford Coll. 



ad. sk. 



q. (S ad. ; r. $ Mhow, Feb. ; Manpore, May. Cul. C. Swinhoe [P.]. 



ad. sk. 



s, t. cj ad. ; M, V. Khandeish, May and December Hume CoU. 



$ ad. sk. (Davismi). 



zv-z. cJad. ; a'. $ Mirzapoor Distr., March (7?. Hume Coll. 



ad. sk. Thomjjsoyi). 



b'. (S ad. sk. Chindwara Distr., June (B. Hume Col). 



T/w)n/iso'n). 



c', d'. S ad. ; e', Nagpur Distr., March. Hume Coll. 



/'. 2 ad. sk. 



ff'. (5 ad. sk. Raipur, January. Hume Coll. 



h'-k'. e ad. sk. Seoni, C. P. Hume Coll. 



/'. S im'ii- sk. S. Konkan, May 5 (G. Vidal). Hume Coll. 



vor,. xvr. 2 l 



