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slightly concave; nostrils basal, in a slight depression near the 
gape, with a tuft. of bristly feathers bordering their. upper 
edge ; wings rounded; third and fourth quills nearly equal and 
longest ; tail long, graduated ; tarsus high; feet adapted for 
walking, of moderate size; the hallux short ; : claws short and 
moderately curved. : 
‘ Taccocua lacchonadiat ee 
219.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 352; Butler, Deccan ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 389 ; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central 
India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 64. 
THE SOUTHERN SIRKEER. 
Tunglt Totah, Hin. 
Length, 15 to 15°5 ; wing, 5°5 to 5°75; ‘tail, 8. 
Bill cherry-red, yellowish at the tip ; irides reddish-brown ; foot 
plumbeous. . 
Above, pale earthy-brown; head inclining to ashy ;.. throat 
whitish; foreneck and breast ashy, tinged with ferruginous ; belly 
dark ferruginous, there being a marked distinction between the 
two colors ; feathers of the head, neck, and breast, with the shafts, 
black and glistening ; upper tail-coverts long ; lateral tail- feathers 
dark brown, broadly tipped with white. 
The Southern Sirkeer occurs sparingly in the Deccan, and at 
Mhow, Central India, and again in Neemuch, Rajpootana ; its 
place in other portions of our district being occupied by 7. sirkee. 
It is a permanent resident and breeds in a similar manner to 
C. rufipennis. 
Taccocua sirkee, Gray. 
220.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 353; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. ILI, p. 461 ; ; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology 0 of 
Sind, p. 118. 
THE BENGAL SIRKEER. 
Length, 17 ; wing, 6; tail, 9°5. : 
Above, pale satin-brown ; beneath ashy-brown on the foreneck 
end breast, tinged with ferruginous, and passing gradually into 
the ferruginous of the belly, flanks and tibial plumes ; this hue is 
darker here than in the last, and browner about the vent and 
under tail-coverts ; feathers of the head and neck also black 
shafted. 
The Bengal Sirkeer is not uncommon in Northern Guzerat and 
Sind ; its habits much resemble those of the last. 
Trize, Tenuirostris. 
Bill, in most, slender and long, often curved ; in afew short and 
thick ; wings moderate or long. 
Famizy, Nectarinide. 
Bill of various length, generally long, more or less curved, gene- 
