404 Messrs. Robinson and Kloss on Birds [Ibis, 



stripe from the gape to the ear-coverts pure white ; chin 

 whitish with black tips to the feathers ; lower chin and 

 throat and a large patch, brightening on the sides of the 

 neck, rufous chestnut, with clear black tips to the feathers, 

 heavier on the sides of the neck ; lower throat pure white 

 with black tips to the feathers ; beneath this a narrow black 

 band separating the throat from the underparts. Crown 

 and nape dark bistre slightly squamated with black ; mantle, 

 back, rump, and upper tail-coverts lighter, more olive, the 

 rump and tail-coverts with triangular black spots ; the 

 mantle obscurely edged with blackish and with fine dark 

 shaft-stripes. Lesser upper wing-coverts olive, outer ones 

 black edged with chestnut on the outer webs and tipped 

 with greyish olive ; secondary coverts and tertiaries edged 

 with rich chestnut, a large greyish-olive spot on the outer 

 web and a large black one on the inner web, many of the 

 feathers with clear white shaft-stripes. Primaries brownish 

 black with pale tips, secondaries the same, the outer webs 

 with a chestnut-buif border, the extreme edge lighter, 

 broadening into huffy on the tips. Quill-lining dark grey, 

 outer coverts black, inner greyish white ; axillaries greyish 

 white with sooty black bases. Upper breast dark grey, 

 abdomen buffy white ; under tail-coverts black, basally 

 barred with ochraceous and with silky white tips ; many of 

 the feathers with an ochraceous patch on each web. Flanks 

 grey, the pectoral feathers edged with bistre, the abdominal 

 ones with clear chestnut ; most of the feathers with a clear 

 white shaft-stripe broadening towards the tips ; thighs 

 greyish tipped with rufous. Tail-feathers above dull bistre 

 vermiculated with black and with a triangular black sub- 

 terminal patch ; beneath dark grey with a black subterminal 

 band and a lighter grey tip. " Iris dull brown, orbital skin 

 and gape dull carmine, feet coral-red, bill black." 



Total length 280; wing 142; tail 54; tarsus 38 approx. 

 bill from gape 25 mm. 



The adult female does not appear to differ appreciably 

 from the male, but has tlie upper throat rather white. Soft 

 parts as in the male. 



