6. MACROPTGIA. 



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p. 247 (1881) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 39 (1889) ; Wardl. Rams. 

 Ibis, 1890, p. 22-i ; W. L. Sclat. Ibis, 1892, p. 80 (type i. 



Adult male. General colour above brown-chestnut ; head cinna- 

 mon, with a slight purplish or vinous tinge above ; throat paler ; 

 the hind neck and mantle minutely freckled with rufous and barred 

 with brown, and, in some specimens, with slight amethystine reflec- 

 tions, stronger on the sides of the neck and on the breast ; breast and 

 abdomen cinnamon, barred with brown, and brighter on the lower 

 abdomen and under tail-coverts, the latter uniform with no bars ; 

 obsolete dusky bars on the smaller upper wing-coverts ; under wing- 

 coverts and inner webs of the quills towards the base cinnamon ; 

 tail, like the back, brown-chestnut ; the three outer tail-feathers, as 

 usual, brighter rufous, and with a black subapical dark bar : " iris 

 light blue, encircled with a ring of carmine ; orbital ring leaden blue ; 

 bill and legs purplish pink " ( Wardlaw Ramsay). Total length 

 about 15-5 inches, wing 7 - 3 to 7'7, tail 8, bill 0-9, tarsus 1. 



Young. Head cinnamon, bases of the feathers of the crown and 

 the lateral edges of each feather dark brown or blackish, giving the 

 head tho appearance of dark striatums; the hind neck and mantle 

 are transversely barred with rufous and brown-black, the bars being- 

 broader than in the adult male ; the upper wing-coverts and quills 

 broadly edged with cinnamon ; underparts rufous cinnamon, nearly 

 uniform, only the edges of the feathers somewhat of a deeper tinge. 



Whether the adult female is really similar to the male, as Major 

 Wardlaw Ramsay believes, or whether it resembles the young 

 bird, as I am inclined to believe, I cannot positively assert. 



Hah. Andaman and Nicobar Islands. 



The inner web of the primaries, for the greater part cinnamon, 

 easily distinguishes this species, the male of which is characterized 

 by the head being cinnamon, and the hind ueck and mantle minutely 

 freckled with rufous and barred with brown. 



a. Imm. sk. 

 b-h. e 2 ad. 



et imm. sk. 

 i-o. 3 2 ad. 



et imm. sk. 

 p. 2 imm. sk. 



q. cJ imm. sk. 



r. 2 imm. sk. 



s. 2 j uv • -' v - 



t. u, r. 2 imm. 



sk. 

 w-ri. 3 2 ad. 



et imm. sk. 

 d'-<j'. 6 2 ad. 



et imm, sk. 

 h! . 3 imm. sk. 

 i'. 2 imm. Bk. 



Andamans. 



S. Andamans, June-Get. (R. J. 



Wimberley). 

 S. Andamans, Jan., March, Dec. 



(R. G. W. R.). 

 Strait Is., S. Andamans, April 



(W. Daviso?i). 

 Aberdeen, S. Andamans, April 



( W. I).). 

 Dungleaf Creek, Dec. (W. D.). 

 Port Blair, July (R. J. Who- 



berley). 

 Port Blair, Aug., Sept. {R. J. W.). 



Port Mouat, Jan. ( If. Davison). 



Mt. Earriet, March, Dec. (W.D.). 



C'amortii, March. 



Camorta, Dec. (R. J. Wimberley). 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



