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primarj- joint ; upper tail-coverts with sorae white on the sides of 

 the outer feathers ; tail-feathers blue-black with white ends, and 

 with partial white bars on the inner web of most of the feathers, 

 more stronglj' indicated on the outer ones : sides of the head and 

 the underparts grey, passing into white on part of the thigh- 

 coverts, the abdomen, and under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts 

 gre}', fading into white on the primary joint; quills brown, with a 

 white patch on the inner webs of the primaries forming a diagonal 

 baud : " bill reddish black ; legs and feet brownish yellow ; iris 

 red ■' {E. A. Butler). Total length S-7 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 

 4'5, tail 4"5, tarsus 0'75. 



Adult female. Similar in plumage to the male : " bill blackish ; 

 inside of mouth red ; legs and feet reddish brown ; iris light red " 

 ( W. V. Legge). 



Immature. Upper half of the head, lower back, upper tail-coverts, 

 and tail bright rufous without bars ; upper back and wing-coverts 

 barred with black ; throat strongly washed with rufous : breast and 

 under tail-coverts white barred with black ; under wing-coverts 

 white, more narrowly barred with black ; under surface of the quills 

 with a diagonal pale bar shaded with rufous. 



The Museum Collection contains some interesting varieties ; 

 three of these have no white on the pinion-joint, two have no 

 white on the abdomen and under tail-coverts, and in one the white 

 on the quills is absent, and the tail is uniform blackish with very 

 slightly paler ends to some of the feathers. That these specimens 

 are mere varieties cannot be doubted, and the most striking of them 

 has been figured as Polijpliasia pasaerina (Ibis, 1872, fig. 1, upper 

 figure). 



Hah. Indian Peninsula; Java; Sumatra. 



a-ij. Ad. et imm. sk. 



h. jS ad. ; i. $ 



imm. sk. 

 k-p. Ad. et imm. 



sk. 

 q, r, s. Ad. sk. 

 t. (S fid. sk. 

 II. 2 ad. sk. 

 V, IV, .V. Ad. ; I/. 



Juv. sk. 

 z. Ad. sk. 

 a'. Ad. ; f/. $ juv. 



sk. 

 c'-k'. Ad. et inmi. 



sk. 

 i'. Ad. sk. 

 k'. 2 ad.: /'. .Iiiv. 



sk.^ 

 m'-q . tS ad. sk. 



r'. (S ad. sk. 



Ceylon, Feb., April ( <S'. 



Chapman i^- H. Xevill). 

 Colombo. 



Kandy (A. Whyte). 



Newara Ellin. 

 Dyatura, Feb. 

 Tumgalla, Feb. 

 Malabar. 



Western Ghats. 



Coonoor Ghat, April, Sept., 



{li. G. W. li.). 

 Kotagherry, May, Juue, 



Sept., Oct. {Mi.is Cockhuni). 

 Mysore, May. 

 ^ladras {Jerdon). 



Belgaum, April, June, July 



tyE. A. L'nt/er). 

 Vingorla, S. Ivoukan, Feb. 



(G-'. Vidal). 



Tweeddale Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



E. Boate, Esq. [C. j. 

 Col. Legge [P.]. 

 Col. Legge [P.]. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Gould Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume ( 'oil. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



