326 OTIDIB^. 



Otis nigriceps, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 35 ; Sykes, P. Z. S. 1882, 

 p. 115 ; Gould, Cetit. B. Himal. pi. 72 (1832) ; Hodgs. Icon. ined. 

 in Brit. Mus. GrallaB, pi. 43. no. 778 ; id. in Gray's Zool. Misc. 

 p. 85 (1844). 



Eupodotis edwardsi, Gi-ay, List Grallce Brit. Mus. p. 58 (1844) ; 

 id. Gen. B. iii. p. 533 (1845) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 258 

 (1849) ; Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 88 (1854) ; j0-d. B. Ind. iii. p. 607 

 (18G4) ; Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 162 ; Beavan, Ibis, 1868, p. 387 

 (C4walior) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 7, no. 9920 (1871) ; StoliczJca, 

 J. A. S. Beng. xli. p. 260 (1872 : Cutch) ; Hayes Lloyd, Ibis, 1873, 

 p. 415 (Kathiawar) ; Hume, Nests Sf Egqs Ind. B. p. 557 (1873) ; 

 id. Str. F. i. pp. 136, 227 (1873 : Sind) ; Butler, Str. F. iv. p. 9 

 (1876 : Dacca) ; Ball, t. c. p. 234 (Sumbulpur district) ; Fairb. 

 t. c. pp. 262, 266 (Ahmednuggiir) ; Hume Sf Marsh. Game B. Ind, 

 i. p. 7, pi. 3 (1878) ; Davidson <^ Wenden, Str. F. \i\. p. 87 (1878 

 Deccan); Ball, t. c. p. 226; Tweedie, t. c. p. 528 (Oudh) ; Hume, 

 Str. F. viii. p. Ill (1879) ; Wilson, t. c. p. 490 (Mozufiernuggur) 

 Butlei; Cat. B. Sind etc. p. 56 (1879) ; id. Cat. B. S. Bomb. Pres 

 p. 71 (1880) ; W. Elliot, P. Z. S. 1880, p. 486 (gular pouch) 

 Davidson, Str. F. x. p. 318 (1882: Khandeish) ; Murray, Vertebr 

 Faun. Sind, p. 217 (1884) ; Oates, ed. Hume's Nests i^ Eggs, iii 

 p. 375 (1890). 



Eupodotis leuconiensis. Gray, Cat. Mamm. etc. Nepal pres. Hodgs, 

 p. 130 (1846). 



Clioriotis edwardsi, Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 416 (1856). 



Adult male. General colour above dull sandy buff, everywhere 

 finely vermiculated with blackish, some of the feathers with a 

 rufescenfc tinge, but without any black or sandy-buff blotches ; 

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

 like the rest of the back, the latter with narrow white ends ; lesser 

 wing-coverts like the back, but with a slightly more rufescent tinge ; 

 median coverts black, tipped with white ; greater coverts black with 

 white tips, but the inner ones mottled with white towards the base 

 and shaded with bluish grey, sometimes occupying the greater part 

 of the feather ; bastard-wing brown, shaded with grey and tipped 

 with white ; primary-coverts slaty blue and tipped with white ; the 

 primaries slaty blue, the long primaries blackish, with notches and 

 bars of white on the inner ones, which are also tipped with white, 

 these bars being irregular in shape ; secondaries slaty blue, tipped 

 with white and irregularly mottled with white towards the base of 

 the outer web, the innermost secondaries like the back, but with a 

 certain grey shade ; taU-feathers like the back but somewhat more 

 coarsely vermiculated and shaded with grey ; about the middle of 

 the tail a band of dusky blackish and two other bands of whitish 

 obscured with dusky mottlings ; crown of head and nuchal crest 

 black ; over the eye a few white streaks, but no distinct eyebrow ; 

 neck all round, lores, sides of face, throat, and under surface of 

 body pure white ; sides of breast with a few vermiculated sandy 

 feathers and with a large black patch which forms a somewhat 

 broken collar on the fore neck and extends with a few blackish 

 feathers round the upper part of the mantle ; on the lower flanks 

 a large patch of black feathers ; under tail-coverts black with white 

 bands at the end, some of the feathers bluish grey freckled with 



