CARINE. 103 



Stiff loral bristles pure white at base, some tipped with fulvous, some \vith 

 dark brown or black ; those of the chin pale fulvous, nearly white ; over each 

 eye a distinct broad whitish band formed by pure white feathers narrowly 

 tipped with yellowish brown, which again in some is narrowly fringed with 

 black ; some nearest the eyes also edged throughout their length with 

 yellowish brown. Feathers of the head and nape, pale yellowish rusty, each 

 traversed by three or four narrow irregular light brown lines. Interscapulars 

 and feathers of the back and rump, colored and marked like the plumage 

 of the head and nape, but the brown transverse bands are broader and fewer ; 

 scapulars the same, but a few more or less pure white, mottled towards 

 the tip with the prevailing tints ; ear coverts and cheeks principally white 

 with brown and very fulvous markings ; throat feathers albescent with one or 

 more narrow brown cross bands ; a half collar below the throat, of feathers 

 marked and colored like those of the nape ; breast feathers tipped with brown* 

 a sub-terminal band of pale fulvous, then a brown band followed by a much 

 broader pure white band ; abdominal feathers white, tipped with an irregular 

 ocellated mark, centred with pale rusty fulvous and encircled with brown, then 

 a broad white band, with a basal and narrower brown band in many of the 

 abdominal feathers, the ocellated markings are replaced by an irregular cross 

 band of mixed fulvous and brown ; under tail coverts white, with faint subter- 

 minal fulvous brown bands ; tarsus clothed with white feathers faintly barred 

 with pale brown ; ground color of the primaries and secondaries brown, each 

 quill traversed by three or more pale rufo-fulvous narrow bands more or less 

 complete, the brown intervals towards the apices of the primaries and on their 

 outer webs much freckled with rufo-fulvous; on the outer web of the second, 

 third and fourth primaries, the pale rufo-fulvous bands change to fulvous white 

 or pure white ; under wing coverts greyish white ; median rectrices marked 

 and colored like the apices of the primaries ; lateral with clear rufo-fulvous 

 bands running through, all tipped like the median shoulder edge, with white ; 

 tarsi feathered to within an eighth of an inch of the base of the toes; fourth 

 and fifth quills equal ; third slightly longer than sixth. 



\Ving475inches; tail 2-37; tarsus ro; middle toe with nail ri2 ; bill 

 from nostril (in a straight line) 0-65. 



Hab. Port Blair, S. Andamans. Occurs also in Nepaul. 

 Nothing is known of the habits or nidification of this species. 



Gen. Carine. Kaup. 



Cere swollen ; ist primary much lengthened ; 5 ln escolloped on the outer 

 web like the fourth ; hind tarsus plumed ; nostril pierced near the anterior 

 margin of the cere ; bill short, curved from the base, hooked ; lower mandible 

 notched. 



