ARGYA. 197 
6. Chin and throat immaculate white or 
pale fulvous. 
a’. Lower plumage pale fulvous. ipulgs: 
a’, Above reddish brown .......... A. caudata caudata, 
6’. Above more grey-brown ........ A. ¢. huttoni, p. 199. 
b’, Lower plumage ferruginous........ A, gularis, p. 199. 
B. Head not streaked, back with oval brown 
BDOUS aire cy cateteatntathe ter teil Cole bs. © ok oe 0 A, malcolmi, p. 200. 
‘C. No streaks or spots on head or upper 
plumage. 
ce. Chin and throat rufous, lores dark .... A. subrufa, p. 201. 
d. Chin, upper throat and lores white.... A. longirostris, p. 202. 
wf (191) Argya earlii. 
Tue Striated BappiEr. 
Malacocercus eari Blyth, J. A. 8. B., xvii, p. 369 (1844) (Caleutta). 
Argya earl. Blant. & Oates, i, p. 105. 
Vernacular names. Barra-phenga (Hindi). 
Description. Upper plumage brown tinged with rufous, the 
feathers of the crown largely centred with very dark brown, those 
Fig. 32.—Head of A. carliz. 
of the back with very dark shaft-stripes; upper tail-coverts obso- 
letely dark-shafted; tail brown, the shafts darker and the feathers 
cross-rayed ; wings brown, the lesser coverts dark-centred; lores 
grey; cheeks and ear-coverts plain rufescent; chin, throat and 
breast the same, the dark stripes increasing in size downwards; 
remainder of lower plumage pale buffy-brown, albescent in the 
middle of the abdomen. 
Colours of soft parts. Iris bright yellow; eyelid plumbeous ; 
bill fleshy-yellow, the culmen, nostril and tip darker horn-colour ; 
mouth yellow; legs plumbeous or fleshy-plumbeous, claws 
pinkish. 
Measurements. Length about 140 mm.; wing 85 to 93 mm.; 
tail about 120 to 130 mm.; culmen about 20 mm.; tarsus about 
32 mm. Ronn 
Distribution. rom Sind to the Kun of Cutch, along the base 
of the Himalayas to Behar, all over Behar and Bengal, East 
through Assam, North and South of the Brahmaputra, through 
Chittagong, Chin Hills and Arrakan to Pegu. 
