HENKTKI 8. 83 



1\< y to the Species. 



a. Back spotted. 



a'. Spots on back lunate ; feathers on lower 



breast fringed with white H. maculatus, p. 83. 



b'. Spots on back round ; feathers on lower 



breast entirely black H. yuttatus, p. 84. 



b. Back plain. 



r'. Chin and throat black. 



a". Back slate-coloured H. xchistaceus, p. 84. 



b". Back black H. immaculatus, p. 85. 



d'. Chin, throat, and breast black H. leschenaulti, p. 86. 



630. Henicurus maculatus. The Western Spotted Forktail. 



Enicurus maculatus, Viyors, P. Z. S. 1830, p. 9; Gould, Cent. 

 pi. xxvii ; Bhjth, Cat. p. 159 ; Horsf. $ M. Cat. i, p. 346 : Jerd. 

 B. I. ii, p. 212 ; Hume, N. $ E. p. 374. 



Henicurus maculatus, Vigors, Bluth, Ibis, 1867, p. 29; Stoliczka, 

 J. A. S. B. xxxvii, pt. ii, p. 47 ; Elwes, Ibis, 1872, p. 260 ; Hume 

 8f Renders. Lah. to Yark. p. 222 ; Hume, Cat. no. 584 ; Scully, 

 S. F. viii, p. 310 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 317 ; Gates in Hume's 

 N. 8f E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 57. 



The Spotted Fork-tail, Jerd. ; Khanjan, N.W. Him. 



Fig. 26. Head of H. maculatus. 



Coloration. Forehead and anterior half of crown white; re- 

 mainder of the head, the whole neck, breast, back, lesser and 

 median wing-coverts, primary-coverts, and winglet black ; the 

 feathers of the hind neck thickly marked with large round white 

 spots, those of the back and scapulars with large ovate transverse 

 bars ; greater wing-coverts black, tipped white ; the earlier pri- 

 maries black ; the other quills broadly white at base and also 

 tipped white ; rump, upper tail-coverts, abdomen, and under tail- 

 coverts white ; the lower part of the black of the breast fringed 

 with white ; the two outer pairs of tail-feathers white ; the others 

 black, broadly white at base and tipped white ; under wing-coverts 

 black; axillaries white. 



In many specimens the crown and nape are rufous-ashy, with 

 black margins to the feathers. 



The young have the head, back, and lower parts down to the 

 breast rufous-ashy, the breast with whitish shaft-streaks. 



Bill black; iris dark brown; legs, feet, and claws white, with u 

 pink tinge at junction of toes with tarsi and on all the toe-joints 

 (Hume). 



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