222 NOTES ON SIKHIII BIRDS. 



in leno-th 26'4, wing 17'9, mid claw (straight) 1*1, central feathers 

 of crest "J: — wlucli latter is black with a white tip. Above the gene- 

 ral colour is a very pale brown, lighter than in L. nepalensis. Head 

 pale fulvous-white, becoming rufous on the hind neck, and all the 

 feathers are white at the base with brown shafts and centres which 

 become larger and duskier on the nape. Chin, throat, and breast white. 

 The feathers of hind throat with brown shafts and centres like those 

 along sides of breast and flanks. The secondary quills and the 

 primary, greater, and median wing coverts are margined whitish 

 towards theii" tips. Axillaries are rufous streaked with brown, liump 

 and upper tail coverts are margined with white. Tail has eight brown 

 bands, and the tips of all the feathers are acuminate. 



39. Spilornis Cheela. — One of these, a male from Matbouli, 

 on the east of the Tista, in March, with length of 28"5, has the under- 

 surface from the throat to the breast an earthy-buff transversely 

 barred with brownish. The chin, throat, cheeks, and ear coverts are 

 pale bluish-grey. All the tail feathers are margined with white at 

 their tips, and all have a subterminal band 2*7 broad of jJure white 

 very slightly mottled with pale brown at the lower border. 



47. Buteo plumipes. — This bird, a young male, shot in 

 October in the Poi La leading into Chumbi, corresponds with 131auford's 

 description^ except in the following details. The lores anteriorly 

 are covered Avith albescent feathers with hair-like extremities ; and 

 posteriorly with radiating black haii's. The albescent feathers are 

 prolonged upwards on either side of the forehead, giving a whitish 

 streaky appearance in that region in front of the superciliary ridge. 

 The ear coverts are paler than the general colour and mottled with 

 some rufous-grey. Darkish moustachial stripe. On the nape a con- 

 spicuous demi-collar of pale fulvous bay streaks, due to feathers here 

 being white with dark brown extremities margined proximately with 

 pale fulvous-bay. The white spots on the scapulars are present, but 

 require searching for by turning down the feathers. The whitish 

 on the primary quills is mottled with bufE along inner border of the 

 inner webs. The pale dingy rufous bars on secondaries number from 

 5 to 3. Underwiug coverts at shoiddcr are faintly margined with 

 rufous. Throat and breast dark brown like back and thighs ; a few 

 of the feathers here with faintly rufous margins, and also on abdomen 

 and flanks, but insufficient to give any general rufous tint. Tarsal 

 plumes interspersed with thready tufts. Tarsal feathers mottled 

 greyish-brown. The posterior tarsal large scutes number only four, 

 above which are 8 bifid ones of hedra-, pcnta-, and sexagonal shapes. 

 The anterior tarsal scales are hexagonal and jjentagonal. The fourth 

 primary is the longest, and the quills are emargiuate on the inner and 



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