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No. 70. Ascalaphia Coromanda.* Larnam. 
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The vast majority of this species lay (in Upper India at any 
rate) in December and January, but I have found the eggs 
on several occasions in February and once early in March. 
* ASCALAPHIA COROMANDA. 
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(Three males and three females, measured, and weighed.) 
The third, fourth, or third and fourth primaries the longest. The first is 
2°70 to 320 shorter, the second 0°90 to 1:10, and the third nil to 0:90 
shorter. Exterior tail feathers 0°25 to 0°60 shorter than central ones. 
Description. Legs and feet feathered ; the latter sparsely ; terminal joint 
bare, pale grey, with one or two, large, soft, transverse scales. Claws, black, 
Irides, deep yellow. Bill, greyish white, or pale lavender, with the tips and 
culmen, pale yellowish horny. 
Plumage. Upper parts, except primaries and tail feathers, earthy brown ; 
in some specimens greyer, in others more umber ; often considerably darker 
on the head, lesser scapulars, and interscapulary region. The feathers of the 
head, nape, interscapulary region, and often many of the scapulars and lesser 
coverts with narrow, ill-defined, dark brown, shaft stripes ; all the feathers, more 
or less vermicillated very finely with excessively narrow, irregular, imperfect, 
wavy bars of a paler colour, producing a freckled appearance. This pale 
colour, is in some a dull fulvous white, in others grey, in others pale greyish 
brown; in some this marking is very conspicuous; in others, it is almost 
obsolete, especially about the shoulders. The long ear tufts, which in some 
specimens are fully 2°75 inches long, are of the same dark brown as the 
narrow, central, shaft stripes, which brown varies much in shade, in different 
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