290 ALLEN S NATURALISTS LIBRARY. 



Brit. B. iii. p. 457 (1884) ; Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. iii. p. 

 126, pi. 30, figs. 1-3 (1885); Saunders, Man. Brit. B. p. 

 595 (1889) ; Lilford, Col. Fig. Brit. B. part xxvi. (1893). 

 Helodromas ochropns, B. O. U. List Brit. B. p. 174 (1883); 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 437 (1896). 



Adult in Winter Plumage. General colour above uniform olive- 

 brown, with a slight gloss of bronzy-olive ; scapulars and wing- 

 coverts like the back, but having a few tiny white spots on the 

 margins ; lower-back and rump darker, blackish-brown with 

 whitish edges to the feathers ; upper tail-coverts pure white ; 

 lesser wing-coverts as well as the outer median and outer 

 greater coverts uniform olive-brown ; bastard-wing, primary- 

 coverts, and quills blackish-brown; the secondaries like the 

 back and freckled with tiny white spots on the edges ; tail- 

 feathers white, the centre ones with three black bars on the 

 terminal half, these bars gradually disappearing on the lateral 

 feathers, the outer ones being entirely white ; crown of head, 

 hind neck, and mantle, uniform ashy-brown ; a supra-loral streak 

 of white ; lores dusky, surmounted by an indistinct white eye- 

 brow, lined with blackish streaks; sides of face, ear-coverts, and 

 cheeks white, rather broadly streaked with blackish-brown ; 

 throat white, streaked with brown on the sides ; lower throat, 

 sides of neck, and fore-neck also distinctly streaked with brown ; 

 remainder of under surface of body pure white; sides of upper 

 breast brown, slightly mottled with white; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries blackish, barred very plainly with white ; lower prim- 

 ary-coverts and inner lining of quills uniform, with white dots 

 along the inner edge of the secondaries ; bill dusky above, red- 

 dish beneath ; feet greyish-blue, tinged with green ; iris dusky. 

 Total length, 9 inches; culmen, 1-4; wing, 5-4; tail, 2-2; 

 tarsus, 1-3. 



Adult Male in Breeding Plumage. Differs from the winter plu- 

 mage in being much more variegated, the whole of the back 

 being spotted with white, the spots being arranged in pairs on 

 the edges of the feathers, which are also tipped with a bar or 

 twin spots of white ; the whole of the head and neck streaked 

 with white, and the brown streaks on the side of the face, fore- 

 neck, and chest, broad and distinct, the sides of the upper-breast 

 being brown, very much mottled with bars of white. Total 



