SP1LORNIS. 15 



Young. Above brown, with large spots of dark brown near the end of each 

 feather, which is slightly tipped with fulvous, the bases of the feathers white ; 

 the upper tail coverts tipped and barred on the outer web with the same; 

 wini: coverts blackish brown, the least ones apically margined with white ; the 

 greater series whitey brown, more or less entirely white on inner web, mesially 

 streaked with dark brown, widening into a spatulate apical spot. Quills dark 

 brown, tipped with white ; the secondaries more broadly barred across with 

 blackish brown, very distinct underneath, where the inner webs are for the 

 most part white. Tail ashy brown, tipped with white, and crossed with three 

 broad bands of darker brown. Head and neck all round white, with a 

 narrow shaft stripe and a diamond-shaped apical spot of dark brown. Ear 

 coverts and cheeks nearly uniform brown. Under surface of body white, 

 with broad streaks of brown on the breast, becoming very narrow and linear 

 on the flanks ; thighs narrowly barred with brown. Under wing coverts white, 

 with large oval spots of rufous brown on the innermost, and having bars of 

 brown on the lower series. 



A dull Female. Head much crested, jet black, with conspicuous white 

 bases to the feathers, those of the nape tipped with dull ochraceous ; rest of 

 upper surface of body purplish brown, paler on the interscapulary region ; the 

 wing coverts blacker, with remains of white tips, which are less distinct on the 

 scapulars, but very broad on the upper tail coverts. Quills brown, tipped with 

 white and mottled slightly on the outer web, but more on the inner with the 

 same ; all the quills dark brown at base and having a broad subterminal band 

 of blackish brown, the primaries showing a second dark brown band near the 

 base ; the inner web of the quills below whitish, showing the bands very dis- 

 tinctly. Tail black, narrowly tipped with whitish and crossed with a very 

 broad median band of pale whitey brown ; sides of face and chin blackish with 

 a distinct greyish band, the latter showing slight tips of fulvous to the feathers ; 

 rest of under surface pale ochraceous brown, with distinct but irregular 

 transverse lines of dark brown ; the rest of the under surface with large white 

 spots, rather oblong in shape, mostly margined above and below with black, 

 changing to bars on the thighs and under tail coverts. Under wing coverts 

 and auxiliaries light rufous with very distinct oval spots of white. 



Length. 30 inches ; culmen 2-25 ; wing 20*5 ; tail 13; tarsus 4-5. 



Adult Male. Smaller. Length 28 inches ; wing 18-5 ; tail 12 ; tarsus 4*5. 

 Chest perfectly uniform brown with no traces of cross barrings on the under 

 surface ; breast and lower parts very largely and distinctly spotted with white ; 

 cere, loral skin, and gape bright yellow ; bill slatey plumbeous at base, bluish 

 black at tip and on culmen; feet pale dingy yellow; iris intense yellow. 

 (Sharpe). 



Hab. Sind, in the Narra Districts, and in well-wooded situations ; also the 

 Concan, Lower Bengal, Himalaya*, Nepal, Aaaam, and Bunnah ; not uncom- 



