276 Mr. J. H. Gurney on the 



(this showing wherever feathers are disarranged), the terrniual 

 portion bhick, edged with hair-brow-n. Chin and throat 

 white, the former tinged with ash-grey, the latter having the 

 feathers tipped Avith light fawn-colour. Along each side of 

 the throat a very distinct deep black stripe, anteriorly fading 

 gradually into the ash-grey of the malar region (but distinct 

 till within an inch of the base of the mandible), posteriorly 

 connected with a cluster of deep black guttate spots across 

 the upper part of the jugulum, and which, medially, extend 

 into the lower portion of the throat. Rest of lower parts, 

 with the ground-colour, white ; but the whole breast marked 

 with large hair-brown sjjots, having broad black shaft-streaks, 

 the belly and thighs broadly barred with lighter brown, the 

 interspaces being more buffy, especially on the tibiae. The 

 tail is crossed (beyond the coverts) by three black and three 

 dull-grey bands, as follows : — first, a narrow terminal band 

 of light brownish grey, about '25 of an inch wide ; next a 

 black band 1'25 inch wide; then a grey band (crossed by 

 five rather indistinct black bars) 2*25 inches broad ; the next 

 band black and I '25 inch broad; the following one dull 

 grey (crossed by four blackish bars) 1 inch broad. 



''The axillaries are brown, broadly barred with white, the 

 brown spaces being "60 to "80 of an inch wide, and the white 

 •35 to "30 of an inch. There is apparently no crest, although 

 the feathers of the occiput and nape are rather lengthened 

 and somewhat lanceolate. 



"The primaries and rectrices are moulting, but the 

 measurements are given for what they are worth : — wing 

 16"50 inches, tail 9"50, culmen (including cere) 1'45, tarsus 

 2-10, middle toe (without claw) 2." 



On the whole, this description appears to me to point to 

 P. apivorus rather than to P. ptUorliijnchvs, although the 

 " very distinct deep black stripe along the side of the throat, 

 posteriorly connected with a cluster of deej) black guttate 

 spots across the upper part of the jugulum," is, it must be 

 admitted, especially when existing in an adult bird, much 

 more like P. ptilorhynchus. I have seen such markings in 

 P. apivorus, but only, so far as I recollect, in immature 



