290 Allen's naturalists library. 



Brit. B. iii. p. 457 (1884) ; Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. iii. p. 

 126, pi. 30, figs. 1-3 (1885); Saunders, Man. Brit. B. p. 

 595 (1889) ; Lilford, Col. Fig. Brit. B. part xxvi. (1893). 

 IleJodromas ochropus, B. O. U. List Brit. B. p. 174 (1883); 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 437 (1896). 



Adult in "Winter Plumage. — General colour above uniform olive- 

 brown, with a slight gloss of bronzy-olive ; scapulars and wing- 

 coverts like the back, but having a few tiny white spots on the 

 margins ; lower-back and rump darker, blackish-brown with 

 whitish edges to the feathers ; upper tail-coverts pure white ; 

 lesser wing-coverts as well as the outer median and outer 

 greater coverts uniform olive-brown ; bastard-wing, primary- 

 coverts, and quills blackish-brown; the secondaries like the 

 back and freckled with tiny white spots on the edges ; tail- 

 feathers white, the centre ones with three black bars on the 

 terminal half, these bars gradually disappearing on the lateral 

 feathers, the outer ones being entirely white ; crown of head, 

 hind neck, and mantle, uniform ashy-brown ; a supra-loral streak 

 of white ; lores dusky, surmounted by an indistinct white eye- 

 brow, lined with blackish streaks ; sides of face, ear-coverts, and 

 cheeks white, rather broadly streaked with blackish-browTi ; 

 throat white, streaked with brown on the sides ; lower throat, 

 sides of neck, and fore-neck also distinctly streaked with brown; 

 remainder of under surface of body pure white; sides of upper 

 breast brown, slightly mottled with white; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries blackish, barred very plainly with white ; lower prim- 

 ary-coverts and inner lining of quills uniform, with white dots 

 along the inner edge of the secondaries ; bill dusky above, red- 

 dish beneath ; feet greyish-blue, tinged with green ; iris dusky. 

 Total length, 9 inches; culmen, 1*4; wing, 5*4; tail, 2*2 ; 

 tarsus, 1*3. 



Adult Male in Breeding Plumage. — Differs from the winter plu- 

 mage in being much more variegated, the whole of the back 

 being spotted w^ith white, the spots being arranged in pairs on 

 the edges of the feathers, which are also tipped with a bar or 

 twin spots of white ; the whole of the head and neck streaked 

 with white, and the brown streaks on the side of the face, fore- 

 neck, and chest, broad and distinct, the sides of the upper-breast 

 being brown, very much mottled with bars of white. Total 



