254 cvcvi.TDJS. 



blackish, below greeuish : gape and mouth inside deep orange ; eye- 

 lids bright yellow ; irides stone-colour ; legs dull yellow, claws 

 pale " (J. E. Cripps). Total length 12-8 inches, culracn 0-9, wing 

 7*4, tail 6-3, tarsus 0-7. 



Adult female. Differs only in plumage from the male in having 

 the base of the throat shaded with huffish rufous, as is the case in 

 C. canonis. Total length 11'5 inches, culmen 0*7, wing 7"4, tail 6, 

 tarsus 0'7. 



Nestling. General plumage above blackish brown, with naiTow 

 terminal white margins to the feathers, which margins are broadest 

 on the wings and tail ; the wliito nuchal patch so characteristic of 

 C. canorus is indicated by three white feathers ; a few rufous partial 

 bars on the wings and tail ; chin and throat blackish brown, the 

 feathers of the latter with very narrow whitish terminal edges ; 

 remainder of the under surface of the body blackish brown and 

 white in broad bars of even width. Total length 5 inches, 

 wing 3-7. 



YoiOKj, nearly full-(/rown. Differs from C. canorus at this stage in 

 being much blacker, in generally having no white feathers on the 

 nape, and in the greater breadth of the black bars on the throat and 

 breast, which are seldom nari'ower than the white space between 

 them. 



Rufous phase. Compared with the rufous phase of C. canorus, ii 

 is darker, the dark bars being broader and blacker ; lower back and 

 upper tail-coverts barred with black like the crown : tail with very 

 distinct black bars forming angles at the shafts of the feathers ; 

 under surface of the body similarly coloured, but much more broadly 

 barred with black than in C. canorus. Total length 11-1 inches, 

 culmen 0-85, wing 7, tail 6"1, tarsus ((■7. 



Ilab. From Siberia and Japan south throughout China and the 

 Indian peninsula, through the Malay Archipelago to New Guinea, 

 New Britain, and Australia. 



(I. 2 juv. sk. Jodhpur, Rajpootana. Hume Coll. 



f/. cJ ad. sk. Sidapur, May 18 {J. Scully). Seebohm Coll. 



c, d. 5 ad. sk. Ruttuii Pir Mountain, Cash- Hmue Coll. 



mere, June 17. 



('. Juv. sk. Kotegurh, April. Hume Coll. 



f. 2 juv. sk. Simla, Jidy {It. C. Beavan). Tweeddale Coll. 



y. 2 imm. sk. Kalsi {G. F. L. Marshall). Hume Coll. 



h. S ad. ; i, k. Naiui Tal, June. Hume CoU. 



Juv. sk. 



/. S ad. sk. Futtehgurh Dist., May {A. Seebohm Coll. 



Anderson), 



m. cJad.;?*. 2 Nepal Valley, July, Sept. (J. Hume Coll. 



juv. sk. Scully), 



o-t. Ad. ; u-y. Nepal. Hodgson CoU. 



Juv. sk. 



s, a. Ad. sk. Nepal {B. H. Sodyson). India Museum. 



(Types of C. saturatus.) 



b'. Ad.; c', d'. Native Sikhim, April, June, Hume Coll. 



e'. Imm. sk. Jidy, Sept. {L. Mamlelli). 



