276 Allen's naturalist's library. 



Rhyacophihis glareola, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 491 

 (1896). 



Adult Male in Winter Plumage. — General colour above bronzy- 

 brown, with light ashy-bronze margins to the feathers, which 

 are slightly spotted with white on both edges ; scapulars like 

 the back, but with somewhat larger white spots : lower back 

 and rump uniform brown, the feathers of the latter part edged 

 with white ; upper tail-coverts pure white, the lateral ones with 

 blackish shaft-streaks and irregular longitudinal markings ; 

 lesser wing-coverts uniform brown ; the median and greater 

 coverts spotted with white on both webs, and resembling the 

 scapulars ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts and quills blackish- 

 brown, fringed with white at the ends, the secondaries notched 

 with white on both webs, with a barred appearance of blackish 

 intermediary bands ; centre tail-feathers ashy-brown, barred 

 with blackish-brown, and deeply notched with white ; the 

 lateral feathers white, barred with blackish, these bars becoming 

 irregular on the lateral feathers, and reduced to a few freckles 

 on the outermost ones ; crown of head and hind-neck almost 

 uniform ashy-brown, slightly mottled with darker brown 

 centres to the feathers ; lores dusky, surmounted by a dis- 

 tinct white eyebrow ; sides of face white, slightly streaked 

 with dark brown ; the ear-coverts uniform dark brown along 

 their upper edge ; cheeks and throat white ; sides of neck, 

 lower throat, fore-neck, and chest, ashy, varied with shaft-lines 

 of brown ; remainder of under surface of body pure white ; 

 sides of upper-breast ashy-brown ; lateral under tail-coverts 

 with blackish shaft -streaks, and a few frecklings of black ; 

 under wing-coverts white, mottled with blackish bases to the 

 feathers ; axillaries white, with a few irregular bars and 

 freckles ; lower primary-coverts and quills below dusky-brown, 

 with whitish spots on the edges of the inner secondaries ; 

 basal half of bill olive-brown, terminal half black ; legs and 

 feet pale greenish ; claws dark horn-colour ; iris brown. Total 

 length, 8-5 inches; culmen, i'i5 ; wing, 4'6 ; tail, 1*85; 

 tarsus, I '4. 



Adult Female. — Similar to the male ; bill blackish, olive at 

 base of lower mandible ; feet olive ; iris very dark brown. 

 Total length, 8 inches ; wing, 4"9. 



