55. PAVOXCELI.A. 503 



(1873: Sind); Stoliczka, op. cit. ii. p. 465 (1874: Kaahgar) ; 

 Buckley, Ibis, L87 I. p. 388 (Matabele Country) ; Blyth .V WeSd. B. 

 Ilium, p. 150 (1875: Avakan) ; Butler, Str. F. iv. p. 17 (1876: 

 Deesa) ; Hume, t. c. p. 17 note: Butler, op. cit. v. p. 233 ( 1 877 : 

 Deesa, July to March); Hume, t. c. p. 224 (Month of Kittang 

 River) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1877, p, 350 (Transvaal) ; Sharpe in Oates't 

 Matabele Land, App. B. p. 325 ( 1881 : Mopani Pan, near Rama- 

 queban R., Nov.); Felz. Verhandl. z.-b. Qes. Wien, xxxi. pp. 606, 

 017 (1881: Redjaf; Lado, Dec); Holub # Pelz. Beitr. Orn. 

 Sudafr. p. 292 (1882 : Matabele, July) ; Murray, Vertehr. Faun. 

 Sind, p. 2 IS (1884); Seton, Auk, ii. p. 336 (1885: Toronto); 

 Fischer, J. f. 0. 1881, p. 116 (Liudi, April) ; Palmen, Vega Exped. 

 v. tab. iii. (1887); Frivaldsky, Ar. Hung. -p. 144 (1891 : arriving at 

 end of March, occasionally) ; Madardsz, Erlaut. Ausst. Ungar. 

 Vogelf. p. 110 (1891). 



Machetes optatus, Hodgs. Icon, ined in Brit. Mus., Grail, pi. 95. 

 nos. 336, 412, pi. 95 «. no. 366, App. pi. 47; id. in Grays Zool. 

 Misc. p. 86 (1844). 



Philomachus pugnax iudicus, Reichenb. Grail, tab. lxxii. figs. 596- 

 600 (1850). 



Trin^a (Machetes) pugnax, Middend. Reis. Sibir., Zool. p. 218 

 (1851 : Taimyr R. ; Boganida). 



Machetes minor, Brehm, Vogelf. p. 320 (1855). 



Terekia cinerea (nee Quid.), Butler, Str. F. iv. p. 17 (1876) ; id. 

 Str. F. v. p. 233 (Deesa, July-March). 



Adult male in winter plumage. General colour above ashy brown, 

 with whitish fringes to the feathers, which have dusky-brown 

 centres ; the lesser and median wing-coverts like the back ; greater 

 coverts blackish, with a slight greenish gloss, and broadly tipped 

 with white ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts blackish ; quills 

 brown, with white shafts, the outer webs and tips of the feathers 

 blackish, the secondaries white at the base of the inner webs, and 

 fringed with white at the ends ; the innermost secondaries browner 

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

 darker brown than the rest of the back, with darker brown centres 

 to the feathers ; tail-feathers dark brown, with narrow whitish tips 

 and shafts ; crown of head and neck light brown, the former 

 slightly mottled with darker centres to the featbers ; lores and 

 cheeks ashy white ; ear-coverts and neck light brown, with dusky- 

 streaks ; under surface of body white, the lower throat and chest 

 mottled with ashy bases to the feathers, and the sides of the body 

 marked in a similar manner ; axillaries and under wing-coverts 

 white, tbe lower primary-coverts and quill-lining ashy grey : " bill 

 dark brown, paler at the gape ; feet yellowish brown ; iris dark 

 brown" (E. W. Oates). Total length 12 inches, culmen 1*3, wiug 

 7-4. tail 2-6, tarsus 1*8. 



Adult female in winter plumage. Similar to the male, but much 

 smaller. Total length 10-5 inches, culmen 1*2, wing 0-1, tail 2-15, 

 tarsus 1*65. 



Adult male in summer plumage. This plumage varies to such an 

 extent that it is impossible to describe it exactly, scarcely two Huffs 

 in full plumage being alike in colour. 



