274 GAME-BIRDS OF INDIA 



Under aspect of the wings and axillaries pale-grey. Upper breast 

 barred buff and black ; lower breast a rather rich yellow-bnff, divided 

 in the centre by a band varying from a chocolate-chestnut to black 

 and followed again by another black band, generally much broken 

 and mixed with white. Abdomen, vent and external flanks white, 

 each feather with two half-moon-shaped bars, the terminal being 

 black and the lower concealed one chocolate ; under tail-coverts pale 

 buff with arrow-shaped bars of black or deep-chocolate ; feathers of 

 tarsi white to pale-buff. 



The above description gives most of the details in variation of 

 colour, but it may be noted that the bird varies in general tone of 

 colouration from a pale sandy-buff to a richer, almost chestnut buff, 

 more especially on the scapulars and upper back. 



The bird from which the plate is taken is a very typical Indian 

 specimen, but in a good many the upper parts are slightly richer in 

 colour. 



The colour of the breast also varies somewhat, and in a few birds 

 the part above the central band is slightly suffused with vinous, but I 

 have never seen the upper and lower parts contrasting with one 

 another as is often, generally in fact, the case with fasciatus. 



Measurements. — Wing 685 inches (=171 mm.) to 7'35 (=186'6 

 mm.) with an average of 7'06 ( = 179'3 mm.), tarsus '91 ( = 23"1 

 mm.) to 110 (=27'9 mm.) the average being exactly I'O 

 (=25'4 mm.), bill from tip along culraen to feathers of forehead 

 •46 (= 11-6 mm.) to '52 (=13-2 ram.) and averaging "49 (=12'4 

 mm.) full, tail from vent about 3 (= 76"2 mm.) or a little over. 



" Total length lO'S inches, wing 7, tail 2-8, tarsus I'l." 

 {Ogilvie-G-rant.) 



Colours of Soft Parts. — " Legs wholly feathered in front ; feet 

 orange-yellow ; reticulations white ; claws dusky, tipped yellowish ; 

 bill fleshy-brown, darker in the female ; irides brown ; orbital skin 

 yellow." (Hume.) 



" Iris brown, orbit lemon-yellow, bill orange-brown, feet orange- 

 yellow." (Blanford.) " Feet chrome-yellow." {Sharpe.) 



Adult Female. — The female has the whole head and neck pale 

 earthy-buff spotted with black, these spots becoming streaks on the 

 upper part, very fine lines on the lores and ear-coverts and fairly 



