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Nov., Dec.) ; B. 0. U. List Brit. B. p. 154 (1883); Bor/d. Consp. Av. 

 Imp. Boss. p. 65 (1884) ; Murray, Vertebr. Faun. Sind, p. 218 

 (1884) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1886, p. 16G (Muscat) ; Gir/L Avif. Ital. 

 p. 365 (1886) ; Salvad. Elmch. Ucc. Ital. p. 284 (1887) ; .S'^ Jo/in, 

 Ibis, 188'J, p. 175 (Ijiilucliistan) ; Bureau, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 

 xiv. p. 308 (1889); Gitjl. Av. Ital. 1st Eesoc. p. 561 (1889); 

 Brusina, Motr. Sfc. (Orn. Croatica), p. 86 (1890); Barnes, Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. p. 1, pi. 4. fig. 837 (1891). 



iMacqueen's Busi-avd, Yarrell, Brit. B. Suppl. p. 33 (1845). 



Eupodotis macqueonii, Gra)/, Geti, B. iii. p. 533 (1845) ; id. Hand-l. 

 B. ili. p. 9, nf). 9938 (1871). 



Eupodotis undulata {nee Jacq.), Gray, List Brit. B. p. 134 (1863). 



Adult male. General colour sandy buff minutely freckled with 

 blackish vermiculatious, and varied with blotches of black where the 

 feathers are more coarsely vermiculated or spotted with the latter ; 

 scapulars like the back ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 a little more reddish than the back, the black vermicula.tions being 

 wider apart and crossed by narrow but definite bars of black; 

 lesser and median wing-coverts like the back, very minutely 

 freckled with blackish lines and vared by a few arrowhead mark- 

 ings of black, the median scries paler at the ends ; greater coverts 

 whitish externally, sandy buff at the base, and on the inner web, 

 the black frccklings minute and with a small black subterminal 

 mark which is not always present ; primary-coveris and primaries 

 black, the former white at the base, the latter for two-thirds of 

 their length, the inner primaries and secondaries black tipped with 

 white, and mottled with white or sandy buff on the inner web, the 

 long inner secondaries like the back ; centre tail-feathers resembling 

 the upper tail-coverts and crossed by three black bars, the base of 

 the tail deep sandy buff, the terminal half sandy buff freckled 

 witli blackish vermiculatious and crossed by two broad bands of 

 bluish grey, and having a white band at the tip ; crown of head 

 sandy brown minutely frecldcd with blackish, and ornamented in 

 the centre by a crest of a few elongated feathers which are white 

 with black tips ; occiput and nape greyish white, with dusky 

 frccklings : hind neck covered with down of a sandy-buff colour ; 

 on the sides of the crown a lateral crest of white, slightly freckled 

 on the feathers over the eye ; lores and feathers round the eye 

 white, with elongated black hair-like shafts to the feathers ; sides 

 of face and ear-coverts pale sandy buff with the same blackish 

 shafts ; cheeks white, tho fore part streaked with black hair-like 

 shafts ; chin and upper throat white ; sides of neck black, com- 

 mencing in a streak close behind the car-coverts and extending 

 into a ruff o£ stiffened feathers, the basal plumes black, the 

 succeeding ones white, with broad black tips, succeeded by a tuffc 

 of featiicry white jjluraes ; lower throat and fore neck bluish grey, 

 the former obscured by sandy buff, slightly freckled with black, the 

 plumes of the fore neck elongated bluish grey, Avith white tips ; 

 remainder of under surface of body whik% with some freckled 

 feathers on the sides of the upper breast : under tail-coverts white, 

 with a few black cross-bars, the long ones sandy buff on the outer 



