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men, which was procured in Hansi in December ; but in 

 Scinde it is tolerably numerous. 



The specimen killed in Lincolnshire had its craw filled 

 with caterpillars of the Common Yellow Underwing Moth, 

 small shelled snails, beetles, &c. 



Forehead, sides of the head, upper part of the back of 

 the neck, buff, pencilled with black ; crest feathers white 

 at the base, and black for the remainder of their length ; 

 nape and base of the neck, whitish ; on the sides of the 

 neck, a series of plumes gradually increasing in length, 

 the upper two-thirds of which are black ; of the remainder 

 some are white, others black, and some both black and 

 white ; upper surface isabella- brown, or sandy buff, mi- 

 nutely pencilled with black, the pencillings increasing in 

 breadth and intensity here and there so as to form irregular 

 bars across the feathers, these darker markings becoming 

 larger and more conspicuous as they proceed posteriorly ; 

 rump without these darker pencillings ; upper tail-coverts 

 and tail similarly marked and crossed by bands of grey, 

 which increase in size towards the tip ; the tail is more- 

 over washed with rufous, and terminated with buffy white ; 

 wing-coverts buffy white, pencilled with black ; first five 

 primaries white at the base, and black for the remainder 

 of their length ; the other primaries and the secondaries 

 black, with a transverse mark of white at the tip ; throat 

 white ; neck and breast light grey ; under surface of the 

 wing and abdomen white; lower part of the flanks and 

 under tail-coverts white, pencilled and barred with blackish 

 brown ; irides yellow ; bill blackish horny, except at the 

 base, which is yellowish ; legs greenish yellow. 



The figure here given represents the male bird in his 

 breeding plumage. The figure and description taken, by 

 permission, from Mr. Gould's Birds of Asia. 



