406 Messrs. Robinson and Kloss on Birds [Ibis, 



in tbe presence of supereiliafy stripes and the absence of a 

 rufous chin and chestnut forehead. 



Adult male. Forehead greyish white tinged with buff and 

 narrowing into a purer white superciliary stripe terminating 

 on the nape in pure white feathers with black tips ; lores, a 

 stripe surrounding the eyes, and a patch on the sides of the 

 neck superior to the ear-coverts^ and tiie nape deep black; 

 crown and sinciput also black, the bases of the feathers of 

 the crown olive-brown as the back ; back, mantle, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts olive-brown regularly barred with black ; 

 outer wing-coverts olive-grey mottled with black on the 

 outer webs, and washed with chestnut and with large black 

 spots on the inner webs ; secondary coverts and tertiaries 

 light olive-grey on the outer webs, the inner webs broadly 

 tipped with black subterminally and tipped and edged with 

 rich chestnut ; primaries browni'sh black, the tips mottled 

 with rufous buf£ on the outer webs, the secondaries the 

 samCj broadly edged with pale chestnut externally j quill- 

 lining grey, the inner coverts whitish, the outer blackish, 

 the axillaries dark grey broadly edged with whitish grey. 

 Chin, lower cheeks, and upper throat pure Avhite, lower throat 

 sparsely feathered, pure white with terminal guttate black 

 tips to the feathers, ear-coverts whitish. tinged with brown 

 posteriorly, cliest olive-buff with a reddish tinge more 

 marked on the sides of tiie breast ; middle of the abdomen 

 whitish, flanks greyish olive, each feather with a large ov;ite 

 white spot subterminally and a black tip ; thighs olive- 

 brown ; central under tail-coverts with dark fuscous bases 

 and buffy-white tips, the outermost olive-brown on their 

 outer webs barred with black; tail-feathers olive-brown 

 irregularly barred and mottled with black. " Iris brown, 

 bare skin of head and neck red, bill black, feet dull pale 

 coral-pink.^' 



Total length 290; wing 143; tail 50; tarsus 42; bill 

 from gape 26 mm. 



1 c?. Dran, 3000 ft., S. Annam. 11 May, 1918 (Type). 



3c?ad., 1 ? vix ad. Dran, 3000ft., S. Annam. 1 April- 

 12 May, 1918. 



