284 MOTACILLID^E. 



Above dull olive brown, the upper tail coverts dark brown, the lateral ones 

 with whitish margins ; ear coverts and lesser wing coverts like the back ; 

 cheeks, chin, throat, lores, eyelids, and supercilium extending from the bill to 

 the nape, and whole under surface of the body yellowish white ; two black bands 

 across the breast, the upper one entire and the lower one interrupted in the 

 middle; median and greater series of wing coverts dark brown with broad 

 yellowish white tips forming two bands across the coverts ; quills brown, the 

 2nd to the 7th primaries with a patch of yellowish white on the outer webs 

 near their bases ; all the primaries and secondaries with an abrupt margin of 

 yellowish white near their tips on the outer webs ; tertiaries brown, broadly 

 tipped with olive green ; tail with two central feathers olive brown like the 

 back, and washed externally with olive ; remainder of the feathers blackish, 

 obsoletely tipped with white ; outermost feathers white, except at the base 

 where it is brown ; penultimate feather dark brown, with the terminal third of 

 the inner web white ; under wing coverts dull white, washed with olive ; 

 axillaries white, washed with olive yellow, irides black ; upper mandible dusky 

 brown ; lower mandible fleshy white ; legs and feet purplish white. 



Length. 6-3 to 6-6 inches; wing 3*1 ; tail 27; tarsus 0-85 ; culmen 0-55. 



Hab. Eastern Siberia and N. China, ranging in winter into the Indian 

 Peninsula and Ceylon,the Andaman Islands and the Burmese countries (Sharpe). 

 It also occurs in Cochin China, the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo. 

 In Burmah, Gates says, it is uncommon in Pegu ; it was only once met with by 

 Armstrong in the Irrawaddy delta. On the Tenasserim division it appears 

 to be tolerably abundant. In South India it is fairly common on the Neil- 

 gherries and in Coonoor, also in Malabar on the Coast. Jerdon procured it at 

 Nellore, and it is said to be not very uncommon about Calcutta, also in 

 Assam. It is quite a forest-loving species, being found in well-wooded loca- 

 lities and in shady orchards. It is usually seen solitary feeding on insects. 



Gen. AnthuS. Becks t. 



Plumage sombre, generally mottled and lark-like, the feathers of the back 

 with dark centres and pale edges ; feet pale ; bill straight, stout and shorter 

 than in Motacilla; profile of culmen swollen from the centre to the tip. No 

 scutellations on upper part of back of tarsus ; the outstretched feet do not 

 reach beyond the tail ; 1st to 3rd quills longest ; tertials long. 



795. AnthuS trivialiS (*.), Fleming, Br. An. p. 75 ; Yarrell, 

 Br. B. i. p. 384 ; Dresser JB. Eur. iii. p. 309, pi. 132 ; Blanf., East. Persia, 

 ii. P- 2 3S; Brooks, t. c. p. 499; Ball, Str. F. 1878, ii. p. 240; Cripps, t. c. 

 p. 288; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 103; Vidal, Sir. F. 1880, p. 69; Reid, 

 Str. F. 1881, p. 49. Alauda trivialis, Linn., Syst. Nat. i. p. 288. Alauda, 

 plumata, P. L. S. Mull. Natur. Syst. Anhang, p. 137. Pipastes arboreus, 

 Bechst. Naturg. "Deutschl. iii. p. 33 ; Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 229; Hume, Ibis, 

 1870, pp. 287, 400; Brooks, J. A. S. ficng. xli. p. 83; Hares Lhyd, Ibis, 



