440 CHA1UDKIID.S:. 



p. 273 (1870) ; Blanf. Geol. 8>- Zool. Abyss, p. 433 (1870) ; Hume 8/ 

 Menders. Lahore to York. p. 289 (1873); Hayes Lloyd, Ibis, 

 1873, p. 417 (Kathiawar) ; Blyth $ Wold. B. Burm. p. 155 (1875) ; 

 Butler, Str. F. iv. p. 18 (1876 : Mt. Aboo district) ; Scully, t. c. 

 p. 188 (Kashgar) ; Fairb. t. c. p. 263 (Ahmednuggur) ; Butler, 

 Str. F. v. p. 233 (1877 : Deesa) ; Davids. 8f Wenden, Str. F. vii. 

 p. 89 (1878 : Deccan) ; Ball, t. c. p. 228 (Ganges to Godavery) ; 

 Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 96 (Gilgit, Aug. to May) ; Murray, 

 Vertebr. Faun. Sind, p. 254 (1884) ; Macgrey. Str. F. x. p. 466 

 (1887 : Mysore). 



Helodromas leucurus, Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 597 (1856). 



Rhvacophilus ochropus, Bidgw. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. iii. p. 200 

 (1880) ; Coues, Check-list N. Amer. B. p. 103 (1882) : id. Key N. 

 Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 639 (1884) ; Baird, Brewer, 8f Bidgio. Water- 

 Birds N. Amer. i. p. 282 (1884). 



Adult male in winter plumage (Lamu : F. J. Jackson). General 

 colour above uniform olive-brown with a slight gloss of bronzy 

 olive ; scapulars and wing-coverts like the back, but having a few 

 tiny white spots on the margins ; lower back and rump darker, 

 blackish brown with wbite edges to the feathers ; upper tail-coverts 

 pure white ; lesser wing-coverts as well as the outer median and 

 outer greater coverts uniform olive-brown ; bastard-wing, primary- 

 coverts, and quills blackish brown, the secondaries like the back and 

 freckled with tiny white spots on the edges ; tail-feathers white, tbe 

 centre ones with three black bars on the terminal half, these bars 

 disappearing gradually on the lateral feathers, the outer ones being 

 entirely white ; crown of head, hind-neck, and mantle uniform asl y 

 brown ; a supra-loral streak of white ; lores dusky, surmounted by 

 an indistinct white eyebrow, lined with blackish streaks ; sides of 

 face, ear-coverts, and cheeks white, rather broadly streaked with 

 blackish brown ; throat white, streaked with brown on the sides ; 

 the lower throat, sides of neck, and fore-neck also distinctly streaked 

 with brown : remainder of under surface of body pure white ; 

 sides of upper breast brown, slightly mottled with white ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries blackish, barred very plainly with white ; 

 lower primary-coverts and inner lining of quills uniform, with white 

 dots along the inner edge of the secondaries : " bill dusky above, 

 reddish beneath ; feet greyish blue, tinged with green ; iris dusky " 

 (J. Macgillivray). Total length 9 inches, culmen 1*4, wing 5*4, 

 tail 2-2, tarsus l - 3. 



Adult male in breeding-plumage. Differs from the winter plumage 

 in being much more variegated, the whole of the back being spotted 

 with white, the spots being arranged in pairs on the edges of the 

 feathers, which are also tipped with a bar or twin spots of white ; 

 the whole of the head and neck streaked with white, and the 

 brown streaks on the side of the face, fore-neck, and chest very 

 broad and distinct, the sides of the upper breast being brown, very 

 much mottled with bars of white. Total length 9 3 inches, culmen 

 1-4, wing 5*4, tail 2-15, tarsus 1-2. 



Adult female in breeding-plumage. Does not differ in colour from 





