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brown band^ edged by a very narrow border of light brown, and 

 finally fringed with albescent. 



The second example, which (from its smaller dimensions) is 

 probably of a male, has put on many of its adult feathers. The 

 chin and throat v/hite, with a few feathers brown-centred. The 

 remainder of the under surface of the peculiar pale earthy brown 

 colour found in S. cheela. The breast unspotted, but the abdo- 

 minal, ventral, and flank feathers, the axillaries, under wing- 

 coverts, thigh, and under tail-coverts more or less spotted with 

 pure white ; the axillaries have their ground-colour more ruddy. 

 The under surface of the quills as in the Jambusan individual; 

 above the black portion of the quills as in that example, but the 

 paler brown replaced by pale earthy brown mottled with albescent. 

 The banding of the rectrices is different and very irregular. The 

 subterminal dark brown band both individuals possess in com- 

 mon ; the pale band above is narrow, irregular, and mottled. 

 Above this, again, the dark brown band occupies less space, and 

 is broken into by mottled pale brown and albescent, above which, 

 again, are indications of a third dark brown band. The plumes 

 of the head and crest are mostly pure white at the base, termi- 

 nated with a broad jet-black band. The white mark under the 

 eye persists ; but the cheeks and ear-coverts are cinereous, with 

 a jet-black shaft to each feather. The back and wing-coverts are 

 of a much paler brown. 



Longitndo 



* The examples noted as adult have the crest pure white and black. 

 The others have the bLick portion of the crest-plumes edged with fen-u- 

 ginous brown. The caudal banding of one Ceylon individual agrees with 

 the banding in the Javan and Malaccan. In the three other Ceylon indi- 

 viduals three dark brown bands are more or less indicated. 



