22. BAMBUSICOLA. 257 



«, />. Ad.ot inira. sk. West Afriea. Purchased. 



c. Ad. sk. Senegal. Riocour Coll. 



(Type of the species.) 



d. Ad. sk. Gambia. 



e-k. Ad. sk. Accra, Feb., March {G. E. S. Shelley Coll. 



4- T. E. Buckleii). 



I. Ad. sk. Niger (/iaikie). ' Shelley Coll. 



tn-o. Ad. sk. Abyssinia (Esler). Shelley Coll. 



22. BAMBUSICOLA. 



Type. 

 Bambusicola, Gould, P.Z. S. 1862, p. 28o 13. thoracica. 



Sexes similar. 



Tail composed of 14 feathers, rather loug and wedge-shaped, more 

 than three-fourths of the length of the wing, the outer pair of 

 feathers being about two-thirds of the length of the middle pair. 



1st primarj- much shorter than the 10th, which is equal to or 

 rather shorter than the 2nd. ijth is slightly longest. 



Males (and sometimes females) with a pair of spurs. 



Claws like those of FrciiicoUnns. 



liange. Indo-Chinese countries and Formosa. 



Ke;/ to the Species. 



A. Superciliaiy stripe baft ; priiuary-quills mostly 



chestnut fytchii, p. 257. 



B. Superciliary stripe grey ; primary-quills dark 



blackish brown. 



a. Cheeks and ear-coverts rufous chestnut thoracica, p. 258. 



b. Cheeks and ear-covei"ts dark grey sonorivox, p. 259. 



1. Bambusicola fytchii. 



Banibusicdla fvtchii, Anders. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 214, pi. xi. [Ponsee, 

 Yunnan]: /iicinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 400: Godicin-Aiiste/i, P. Z. S. 

 1874, p. 44 ; Bli/f/i i,- Waldeu, Cat. Mamm. S,- B. Burma, p. 151 

 (1875) ; David if'Omtal. Ois. Chine, p. ;J'J4 (1877) [S.W. Sze-chuen] ; 

 Hume, Str. F. v. p. 493 (1877) ; Anderson, Yunnan, ii. Birds, 

 p. t>73, ])1. hv. (1878) ; Hume Sr ^farsh. Game B. ii. p. 97, pi. 

 (1879) ; Fytche, Burma, ii. pi. iv. (1879) : Hume, Str. F. viii. p. Ill 

 (1879); (V?. Sir. F. xi. p. :i08 (1888) [E. Manipur] ; Grant, Ibis, 

 1892. p. 389. 



Bambusicola JKipkinsuni, Godicin- Austen, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 44 ; id. 

 J. .l.--. Soc. Bent/, xliii. pt. ii. p. 172 (1874) [Khasia Hills] ; Hume, 

 Str.F. iii. p.399 (1875;. 



Adult male and female. Top of the head reddish brown, ochraceous 

 on the lores : nape dark sienna, each feather with a wide chestnut 

 stripe down the middle ; upper back olivaceous brown, each feather 

 with a wide dark chestnut band down tiie centre, and often 

 vermiculated or dotted with white on the margin. Scapulars and 

 lesser and median wing-coverts pale brown, with irregular bars of 

 buff and fine vermiculations of black, a large subterminal dark 

 chestnut and black patch and a whitish-butf margin. Lower back, 



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