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widening up the shafts of the feathers ; quills blackish ; the secondaries 

 rather browner, and broadly tipped with buffy-white ; feathers 

 of hinder back and rump tawny fulvous, with dark brown lateral 

 margins, spreading more over the plumes of the latter part ; upper 

 tail-coverts buffy-white, in strong contrast to the tail, which is uni- 

 form brown, tipped with buffy-white ; under surface of tail light tawny 

 fulvous, nearly uniform on the throat, abdomen, thighs, tarsus and 

 under tail-coverts; the whole of the breast feathers laterally margined 

 with brown, producing a distinctly streaked apjDearance ; under wing- 

 coverts rufous fawn colour, streaked with brown; the lower series ashy 

 brown, like the inner lining of the wing. 



Adult Male. — Blackish bi'own above, much lighter brown on the 

 under part of the back and on the upper tail-coverts, which are mot- 

 tled with white near the base, and broadly tipped with the same ; many 

 of the scapulars pure white, forming a conspicuous patch, which, how- 

 ever, is confined to the scapulars themselves ; the last wing-coverts 

 slightly mottled with brown, but not with white near the carpal bend ; 

 rest of wing-coverts blackish brown, uniform with interscapulary region ; 

 quills blackish ; the primaries externally shaded with ashy grey ; the 

 secondaries browner; the innermost slightly tipped with buffy white > 

 the lower surface of wing ashy brown; the primaries mottled with 

 whitish at base of inner web. Tail ashy grey for a little more than the 

 basal two-thirds, shaded with silvery grey, and mottled with blackish 

 brown, forming indistinct and broken bars on some of the feathers ; the 

 terminal third blackish brown with a narrow tip of fulvous; head and 

 neck light fulvous with fawn coloured bases to some of the feathers of the 

 nape. Hind neck dark fawn brown with light buff tips and dark brown 

 centres; forehead and anterior part of crown blackish, as well as the 

 feathers over the eye ; sides of face and of neck light fulvous like the 

 crown, the feathers under the eyes inclining to brown. Cheeks and 

 entire under parts blackish ; the under tail-coverts tawny buff with 

 dark brown shaft-lines and whitish tips to the feathers ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries blackish, like the breast. Cere pale yellow. 

 Bill bluish, darker at tip. Feet pale yellow. Ins brownish yellow. 



Length, Male. — 31 inches, culmeu 2'6, wing 22'6, tail 11*3, tarsus 

 3'9. — {Sharpe, Gat, Ace.) 



Adult Female — Larger; length, 32*34 inches, wing 23" 75 — 24 inches, 

 tail 11'5, tarsus 3'85. — {Sharpe, Cat. Ace.) 



Hah. — South, Eastern and Central Europe, and throughout India 

 nearly. Occurs in Sind, the Punjab, Beloochistan, Afghanistan, 

 Persia, Concan and Deccan; Nepaul, Behar, Central and Southeim India, 

 and the Himalayas. 



Aquiia clang'a, Vail. Zoogr. Bosso. Aslat. i. p. 351 ; Grag, 

 Hand List, i. p. 28 ; Sharpe, Cat. Ace. p. 248 ; Murray, Hdbk., Zool., 

 Sfc, Slnd. Aquiia vittata, Hodgs. in Gray's ZooL Miscellany, 1844. 

 Aquiia nasvia, Schrenek. Beis. Amurl. Yog. p. 220; Sard. B. of Ind, 

 i, p. 29, No. 28; Hume, Bough Notes, i. p. 162; Stray Feathers. 

 i. p. 158; Andrs. P. Z. S. 1871. 



