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and axillaries : " bill black, pale lemon-yellow at base ; feet, 

 wattles, and eyelids pale lemon-yellow ; iris brownish grey " 

 (E. A. Butler). Total length 9'5 inches, culmen 1/1, wing 8"1, 

 tail 3*1, tarsus 2 - 55. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour.. Total length 10 

 inches, culmen 1*1, wing 8-2, tail 3-3, tarsus 2-55. 



The adult male described from the Futtehgurh district certainly 

 has the two outer tail-feathers pure white ; but this does not seem 

 to be always the case, as other birds, equally adult, have the outer 

 feathers brown along the outer web, while the band is represented 

 on the penultimate tail-feathers by two dots, which are also 

 sometimes seen on the outermost feathers. 



Yowkj. Pale brown like the adult, but the whole of the upper 

 surface mottled with transverse dusky bars, the feathers with pale 

 sandy margins, the central tail-feathers also barred with brown and 

 sandy colour at the extreme tip; a streak behind the eye slightly 

 indicated ; chin white ; throat ashy. 



The winter plumage is apparently exactly like the full plumage, 

 with the exception that the head is brown and the throat ashy 

 brown, paler on the chin, which is whitish. 



The young bird, when full-grown, resembles the adults, but shows 

 remains of the sandy margins of the upper surface, the sides of the 

 crown being marked with blackish ; the wattles are also smaller 

 than in the adults. 



Hub. Indian Peninsula generally, and N.W. Ceylon. 



a. Ad. sk India. Purchased. 



b. Ad. sk. Below Mount Aboo. Hume Coll. 



c. (/. 2 ad. sk. Umbala, Jan., Nov. (Dr. Seebohm Coll. 



Scutt). 



e. J ad. sk. Siwalik Distr., March (B. C. Tweeddale Coll. 



Bea van). 



f. Ad. sk. Delhi, May. Hume Coll. 



g. h. Ad. sk. Oudh, Jan., Feb. (A. An- Hume Coll. 



demon). 



i, k, 1. Ad. et imm. Oudh. Pinwill Coll. 



sk. 



m, n. Ad. sk. Lucknow, May 14. Colonel Way [P.]. 



o-r. Ad. sk. Etawah, Dec. Hume Coll. 



s-x. S 2 a d- sk. Futtehgurh Distr., Jan., Feb. Hume Coll. 



(A. Anderson), 



y. Ad. sk. Behar. Hodgson Coll. 



s, a. Ad. sk. Nepal (B. H. Hodgson). India Museum. 



b'. Ad. sk. Darjiling (Co/. Sharpej. Seebohm Coll. 



c'. Ad.sk. Dacca (Col. Tytler). India Museum. 



d'. rf ad. sk. Raipur, Feb. 15. Hume Coll. 



e'. d ad. sk. Nagpur, April 13. Hume Coll. 



f, g. Ad.sk. Saugor (Hooper). India Museum. 



ti '. 9 imm. sk. ' Mhow, Dec. 23. Colonel Swiuhoe 



[P-J- 

 t'. 2 ad.sk. Dhulia, Khandeish, July 15. Hume Coll. 



k',/'. <S ad.; m'- Ahmeduuggur Distr., Nov. Tweeddale Coll. 



p'. 2 ad. et imm. to April {S. B. Fairbank). 



sk. 



