APPENDIX. 445 
Centre of abdomen, tibial, and tarsal plumes, toe-feathers, and 
lower tail-coverts pure white ; sides of abdomen, sides and flanks, 
broadly banded with hair-brown. 
Erythrosterna hyperythra, Cad. 
323ter.—Stray Feathers, Vol. VII, p. 376. 
ength, 533; wing, 2°88; tail, 3:3; tarsus, 0°78. 
Bill dusky above, yellow beneath; irides dark brown; feet 
purplish brown. 
The upper surface is brownish-grey, turning to a purer grey on 
the rump and upper tail-coverts ; tail black, with the basal halves 
of the lateral rectrices white; the upper tail-coverts, especially 
the longest, are blackish in parts, especially on the outer webs. 
The lower surface is a bright red-brewn or rusty-red, except on 
the middle of the abdomen, which is pure white. The red-brown 
color is most intense on the throat and breast, lighter on the con- 
trary and mingled with albescent on the sides of the abdomen 
and lower tail-coverts. The prevailing hue of the tibial plumes 
is grey; the loral region is somewhat dotted with white; the 
sides of the head and neck contrast in pure, and not brownish 
grey with the upper surface, and are divided from the red-brown 
of throat and breast by an irregular blackish line ; the under 
wing-coverts are tinged with rusty yellow. 
The distinguishing characters of the species are the rich 
orange-brown of the-throat and breast, and the black stripe run- 
ning from the bill down the sides of the neck to the breast, and 
terminating below the bend of the closed wing. The specimens 
I obtained were both males, adult and immature ; and the above 
characters are distinct in both, but much more so in the older 
bird.—Stray Feathers, Vol. VII, p. 376. 
Megalurus palustris, Horsf 
440.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 70, 
THE STRIATED MArsH BABBLER. 
gd. Length, 99 to 1062; expanse, 12 to 13; tail, 4°75 to 5°12; 
wing, 38 to 4°15; tarsus, 1°3 to 1°5 ; bill from gape, 0°95 to 1. 
9. Length, 88; expanse, 10°5; tail, 4:37; wing, 3°62; tarsus, 
1:2; bill from gape, 0°9. 
Bill, upper mandible dark brown, lower fleshy-white; irides 
wood brown ; legs and feet dark horny, pink or pale brown. 
Upper parts bright olive-brown, with a mesial black stripe to each 
feather of the back and scapulars ; the edges of the wing-feathers 
also brown ; tail pale dusky-brown, with light edges to the feathers ; 
crown rufescent, with mesial dark lines, obsolete towards the 
front, and the feathers small, rigid and oppressed ; a pale whitish 
streak over the eye; beneath, the chin and throat are white, the 
rest whitish, tinged with earthy-brown; the breast and flanks 
slightly speckled with brown. 
