294 



p. 347; id. Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. i ; p. 59 ; vi, p. 130, fig. 873 



Ohari, Nepal. ; Kone, Konchatta, Kol. (Singlibhoom) ; Tihud, Patt- 

 laiva, Mahr. (Ratnagiri) ; Mail ulan, Tam. ; Baggarji, Berig. ; Itfiju- 

 kfeswatuwa, Cing. 



Fig. 67. Head of E. capensls, $ . \ . 



Coloration. Male. Crown blackish olivaceous, with a broad 

 median buff band, narrow ring round the eye and a short stripe 

 running back from it also buff: lores brown, sides of head white 

 with brown streaks ; hind neck ashy brown, more or less tinged 

 with olive and indistinctly barred with blackish ; mantle similar 

 but more olive, with rather distant narrow white bars and broad 

 patches of dark green fringing them ; outer borders of scapulars 

 buff, forming a band down each side of the back ; on the tertiaries 

 and wing-coverts broad buff black-edged bands come in and pass 

 externally into spots ; quills bluish grey, with fine wavy black lines 

 and with oval buff spots on the outer webs, which are black 

 towards the base ; rump, upper tail -coverts, and tail-feathers 

 bluish grey with black bars ; some buff spots on the coverts and 

 tail ; chin whitish ; sides of neck, fore neck and upper breast 

 brown, streaked with white on the neck, and ending posteriorly in 

 a blackish gorget ; lower breast and abdomen, flanks and lower 

 tail-coverts white, a white band passing up on each shoulder 

 behind the gorget to join the buff scapular baud ; sides of breast 

 behind the white band olive-brown and black. 



In the adult female the lores and cheeks are rufous, passing, on 

 the throat, into dull chestnut that extends around the neck and is 

 bounded posteriorly by the broad blackish pec.toral gorget ; mantle 

 grey washed with olive, with narrow blackish bars, but without 

 any buff or white bars or spots (buff spots on the quills, as in 

 males) ; a tuft of pure white lanceolate feathers beneath the 

 scapulars : otherwise the plumage resembles that of the male. 



Young of both sexes resemble adult males. It is supposed by 

 some observers that the female after breeding resumes the male 

 plumage, but this has never been clearly ascertained. 



Bill and legs olive-brown ; irides olive-brown (Oates). The 

 trachea is convoluted in the female only (see Wood-Mason, I. c.), 

 but much less so than in the Australian species R. australis. 



