HENICUBUS. 83 



Key to the Species. 



a. I lack spotted. 



a'. Spots on back Lunate; feathers on lower 



breast fringed with white 11. maculatus, p. 83. 



b '. Spots on bach round; featherson lower 



breast entirely black II. guttatus, p. *4. 



b. Back plain. 



c\ Ohio and throat black. 



a". Back slate-coloured 11. schistaceus, p. 84. 



//'. Back Mack If. immaculatus, p. 85. 



</'. Chin, throat, and breast black II. leschenaulti, p. 86. 



630. Henicurus maculatus. TJn Western Spotted Fork-tail. 



Enicurus maculatus, Vigors, 1'. Z. <S'. ls:;o, p. 9; Gould, Cent. 

 pL xwii ; Blyth, Cat p. 159; flora/; £ M. Cat. i, p. 346; «/ m /. 

 11. I. ii, p. 212 ; Hume, X. § K p. 374. 



Henicurus maculatus, Vigors, Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 29; Stoliczka, 

 J. A. S. B. xxx \ ii, pt. ii, p. 47 ; Ehoes, Ibis, 1872, p. 200 ; Hume 

 # Hemlrs. La//, to York, p. 221'; Hume, Cat. no. 584; Sadly, 

 •V /■'. viii, p. 310 ; Sharpe, Cat. B.M. vii, p. 317 ; Gates in Humes 

 N. 8f E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 57i 



The Spotted Fur/:- tail, Jerd. ; Khanjan, N.W. Him. 



Fig. 26. — Head of //. maculatus. 



Coloration. Forehead and anterior half of crown white; re- 

 mainder <»i tin) head, the whole neck, breast, hack, lesser and 

 median wing-coverts, primary-coverts, and winglet black; the 

 feathers of the hind neck thickly marked with large round white 

 spots, those of the hack ami scapulars with large ovate transverse 

 bars; greater wing-coverts black, tipped white; the earlier pri- 

 maries black ; the other quills broadly white at base and also 

 tipped while; rump, upper fcail-coverts, abdomen, and under tail- 

 coverts white; the lower part of the black of the breast fringed 

 with white; the two outer pairs of tail-feathers white; the others 

 black, broadly white at base and tipped white; under wing-coverts 

 black; axillaries white. 



In many specimens the crown and nape are rufous-ashy, with 

 black margins to the feathers. 



The young have the head, back, and lower parts down to the 

 breast rufous-ashy, the breast with whitish shaft-streaks. 



Bill black; iris dark brown; legs, feet, and claws white, with a 

 pink tinge at junction of toes with tarsi and on all the toe-joints 



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