10. hottbaropsis. 



317 



crossed by distinct black bars, the outer tail-feathers brown, 

 with black frecklings, and crossed by three broad bands of black ; 

 lesser wiug-covcrts like the back, but lighter, and the mesial 

 sandy markings rather paler ; median and greater coverts light 

 sandy rufous, paler at the ends and with very few cross-lines or 

 mottliiigs of black ; bastard-wing sandy buff but more thickly 

 mottled with black ; primary-coverts and quiUs black, the former 

 mottled with white at their ends, the primaries with white bands 

 on the inner webs more or less obscured by black mottlings, the 

 secondaries freckled and mottled with sandy buff towards their 

 ends, and having two or even three broad bands of black, the inner- 

 most secondaries like the back ; crown of the head sandy-coloured, 

 with two broad black bands on each side of the crown, enclosing a 

 mesial band of sandy buff, which like the nape is streaked with 

 black ; lores, as well as a broad eyebrow, sides of face, and ear- 

 coverts, sandy buff with a few black spots below the eye ; cheeks 

 sandy rufous; chin and throat white, extending down the lower 

 throat ; sides of neck sandy buff as also the fore neck, with a line 

 of black-tipped feathers on each side of the white throat ; fore neck 

 and hind neck sandy buff, slightly freckled with blackish and with 

 mesial streaks of pale sandy buff': breast and abdomen dull white, 

 with a tinge of sandy colour, especially on the sides of the upper 

 breast, which is freckled with black ; under tail-coverts pale sandy 

 buff, with a few blackish mottlings ; under wing-coverts blackish, 

 with white tips and sandy buff on the outer webs ; axiUaries black ; 

 quills below blackish crossed by white bars, the latter more or less 

 obscured by white mottlings. Total length about 25 inches, 

 culmen 1'65, wing 14, tail 6-.5, tarsus 5-6. 



Tomuj males. At first resemble the female, and obtain the black 

 on the head, neck, and under surface, as well as the white on the 

 wings, by a moult. 



Hah. Eastern Bengal, the valley of Assam, the Bhutan Diiars, 

 and those portions of Bengal, Oudh, and the north-western provinces 

 lying north of the Ganges {A. 0. Hume). 



a. (S ad. sk. 



h. S imm. st. 



c. cJ imm. st. 



d. 2 ad. sk. 



e. cj ad. sk. 



/, g, h. <S ad. sk. 

 «'. (^ imm. ; k. $ 

 ad. sk. 



1, 2 ad. sk. 



m. 6 ad. st. 

 n-p. 6 ad.; q-s. 



$ ad. sk. _ 

 t-v. ($ ad. et imm.; 



w-y. $ ad. sk. 



2. (S inim. sk. 



N.W. India. 



N.W. India. 

 N.W. India. 

 N.^Y. India. 

 Seetapiir. 

 Oudh, Dec, .Ian. 

 Purueab, Oudh. 



Kheree Distr. 



Feb. 19. 

 Nepal Terai. 

 Nepal. 



General Hardwicke [P.]. 



(Tvpe of O. delicosa.) 

 Dr. Eoyle [P.]. 

 Purchased. 

 Purchased. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Rnwill Coll. 



Oudb, Hume Coll. 



Nepal (5. H. Hodgson). 

 Bhotan (Pemberton). 



Capt. Harris [P.]. 

 Hodgson Coll. 



India Museum. 



India Museum. 



