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thus marked on the outer webs only, the inner being rufous, clouded with brown. Wing-coverts 

 rufous brown. The major and secondary coverts purer rufous and tipped with bold round or 

 ovoid white marks, some tawny, surrounded above and on their inner margins with black. Many 

 of the greater coverts are traversed by brown zigzag lines ; and the white tips are irregularly 

 formed and incomplete. The quills are brown, the outer webs being indented with pale x'ufo- 

 fulvous. The tertiaries brown, mottled with grey and rufous-grey, which resolves itself into 

 more or less definite bands on the sides of the webs. Middle rectrices rufous-brown, with eight 

 or nine pale fulvous-grey narrow transverse bands much dotted with brown ; laterals brighter 

 rufous. Under wing-coverts pale sordid fulvous grey. Wing 4'68, tail 4-50, tarsus 0'50, middle 

 toe 0"75, bill from forehead 0'90, width of gape 1"20. Structure as in foregoing. 



No. 4, c? C?) adult, Ceylon {mus. nosfr.). (PI. XL VIII. in ori;/.) General aspect above brown. 

 Group of feathers before the eye pale rusty, with a dark brown subterminal bar ; a narrow 

 frontal band similarly marked. Superciliary plumes pale rusty white, mostly on the outer webs, ■ 

 freckled with brown on the inner and traversed with a siibterminal dark brown irregular line. 

 Feathers of the head brown, with minute fulvous terminal and marginal dots and subterminal 

 black spots, all obsoletely freckled with fulvous, and many mixed with grey. Occipital crest- 

 plumes without any fulvous dots. Elongated auriculars tawny, much striated with brown, and 

 tipped almost black. Shorter auriculars tawny, with ]3ale shafts. Nuchal plumes marked like 

 occipital crest, but with a more tawny-rufous ground and with a subterminal white band confined 

 between an upper and a terminal dark brown transverse line. A well-defined nuchal collar is 

 thus formed of two or three rows of plumes. Interscapulars and back marked and coloured like 

 the occipital crest. Uropygial plumes rusty, irregularly vermiculated with dark brown, some 

 terminal markings being black. Upper tail-coverts the same, but with obsolete pale rusty lateral 

 ocelli. Eectrices pale rusty fulvous, mixed with grey throughout, much vermiculated by fine 

 irregular brown lines and with some seven or eight darker rufous transverse bands, sejiarated 

 from the paler by dark brown, almost black, irregular lines, these being broader and bolder than 

 the fine vermiculations. Laterals with a brighter tawny-rufous ground-colour. External short 

 pair pale tawny-rufous, with pure white marginal spots. Undersurface of the rectrices pale 

 fulvous or rusty brown, the black intermediate narrow bands showing through. Wing-coverts P.Z.S.1877, 

 rufous brown, traversed with distinct dark-brown irregular lines. Some of the minor coverts 

 with rusty-fulvous terminal spots. Many of the other wing-coverts with large ovoid pure white 

 terminal spots, with a dark brown margin above and on their inner margins. Shorter scapulars 

 with the inner webs fulvous or rusty, crossed by dark brown lines or narrow bars. Outer webs 

 pale greyish white, crossed by fine zigzag brown lines and black terminal dots. Some of the 

 longer the same, but with ill-defined white ocelli on their outer margins. Other long scapulars 

 alike on both webs, pale rufous, much vermiculated with pale greyish-brown and with broad 

 intervening incomplete bands of white or greyish-white. Quills dark brown, which run at broad 

 intervals through the pale rufous of the outer webs. Tips of the quills mottled with pale rufous. 

 Tertiaries pale rufous or tawny-rufous, much striated with fine irregular brown lines ; a bolder 

 dark brown subterminal mark. Inner tertiaries obsoletely marked with four or five pale greyish- 

 white bands. Chin and throat rusty, with brown transverse lines. Some of the lateral feathers 

 with a dark brown or black subterminal spot. Lower throat-plumes with terminal large pure 



