316 OTlDIDiE. 



Otis himalayanus, Gould, Cent. B. IKmal. pis. 73, 74, 75 (1832). 

 Otis bengalensis vel delicosa, Hodgs. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus. pi. 41, 



no. 115 ; id.in Grays Zool. Misc. p. 85 (1844). 

 Eupodotis bengalensis, Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 533 (1845) ; id. Handrl. 



B. iii. p. 8, no. 9929 (1871). 

 Sypheotides bensralensis, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Sac. p. 258 (1849) ; 



Irbij, Ibis, 1861, p. 237 (Oudh); Jerd. B. Ind. iii. p. 616 (1864) ; 



Blyth, His, 1867, p. 162; Beavan, Ibis, 1868, p. 888; Simsm, 



Ibis, 1882, p. 94. 

 Chlamydotis himalayana, Licht. Nomencl. p. 88 (1854). 

 Sypheotis bengalensis, i?;;. C. R. xliii. p. 416 (1856) ; Sume, Nests 



|- Eqqs Ind. B. p. 559 (1873) ; id. ^ Marsh. Game B. Ind. i. 



p. 23, "pi. 5 (1878) ; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. Ill (1879) ; Gates, ed. 



Humes Nests ^ Eggs, iii. p. 378 (1890). 



Adult male. General colour above black with sandy mottling, the 

 latter coarse in character and the black taking the form of arrow- 

 head centres to the feathers ; the upper scapulars black, forming a 

 patch on each side of the mantle ; remainder of scapulars like the 

 back ; lower back and rump dark brown, nearly uniform, with very 

 slight indications of sandy mottlings on a few of the feathers ; upper 

 tail-coverts al^ dark brown, but a little more coarsely freckled 

 with sandy buff and occasional cross-bands ; tail-feathers black 

 tipped with white, the outer feathers with indications of bluish- 

 grey bands, which become more distinct towards the centre of the 

 tail, where they are mottled with blackish frecklings, the centre 

 feathers sandy buff, mottled with black and crossed by three black 

 bars ; entire series of wing-coverts white, as well as the bastard- 

 wing, primary-coverts, and the greater portion of the quills, the 

 major-coverts and quills white, with black shafts for the greater 

 part of their length, the outer primaries black, with white inner 

 webs, the white extending on the inner primaries, which have the 

 shafts and tips black, the inner secondaries white on the outer web, 

 black on the inner one, the inner greater coverts bluish grey 

 mottled with black, and having blackish bases, the innermost 

 secondaries like the back; head and neck all round glossy blue- 

 black, the head crested and the sides of the neck ornamented with 

 a very large frill, which also depends over the fore neck; remainder 

 of under surface of body from the fore neck downwards duU black, 

 the long under tail-coverts mottled with white ; under wing-coverts 

 for the most part black, the edge of the wing white, with a 

 conspicuous white base to the lower major-coverts, quiU-lining 

 white : " biU dusky, bluish above, bluish grey to yellowish below 

 and somewhat fleshy brown towards gape ; feet dirty straw-colour ; 

 iris yeUow " {A. 0. Hume). Total length about 22 inches, culmen 

 I'o, wing 13, tail 5"5, tarsus 5. 



Adult female. General colour above black, coarsely freckled with 

 sandy rufous and varied with deep sandy-coloured spear-shaped 

 markings in the centre of the feathers; scapulars very coarsely 

 marked, but otherwise like the back ; lower back and rump nearly 

 uniform brown, freckled with sandy buff; upper tail-coverts and 

 centre tail-feathers sandy rufous, coarsely freckled with black and 



