CENTROPODIN^I. 



slightly concave ; nostrils basal, in a slight depression near the 

 gape, with a tuft of bristly feathers bordering their upper 

 edge ; wings rounded ; third and fourth quills nearly equal and 

 longest; tail long, graduated; tarsus high; feet adapted for 

 walking, of moderate size ; the hallux short ; claws short and 

 moderately curved. 



Taccocua leschenaulti, Less. 



219. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 352 ; Butler, Deccan ; 

 Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 389 ; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central 

 India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 64. 



THE SOUTHERN SIRKEEH. 



Jungli Totah, Hin. 



Length, 15 to 15'5 ; wing, 5-5 to 575 ; tail, 8. 

 Bill cherry-red, yellowish at the tip ; irides reddish-brown ; feet 

 plumbeous. 



Above, pale earthy-brown ; head inclining to ashy ; throat 



^\ \ whitish ; foreneck and breast ashy, tinged with ferruginous ; belly 



i^i dark ferruginous, there being a marked distinction between the 



two colors ; feathers of the head, neck, and breast, with the shafts, 



black and glistening ; upper tail-coverts long ; lateral tail-feathers 



dark brown, broadly tipped with white. 



The Southern Sirkeer occurs sparingly in the Deccan, and at 

 Mhow, Central India, and again in Neemuch, R-ajpootana ; its 

 place in other portions of our district being occupied by T. sirkee. 

 It is a permanent resident and breeds in a similar manner to 

 C. rufipennis. 



Taccocua sirkee, Gray. 



220. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 353 ; Butler, Guzerat ; 



Stray Feathers, Vol. Ill, p. 461 ; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of 



Sind, p. 118. 



THE BENGAL SIRKEER. 



Length, 17 ; wing, 6 ; tail, 9'5. 



Above, pale satin-brown ; beneath ashy-brown on the foreneck 

 and breast, tinged with ferruginous, and passing gradually into 

 the ferruginous of the belly, flanks and tibia! plumes ; this hue is 

 darker here than in the last, and browner about the vent and 

 under tail-coverts ; feathers of the head and neck also black 

 shafted. 



The Bengal Sirkeer is not uncommon in Northern Guzerat and 

 Sind } its habits much resemble those of the last. 



TRIBE, Tenuirostris. 



Bill, in most, slender and long, often curved ; in a few short and 

 thick ; wings moderate or long. 



FAMILY, Nectarinidse. 



Bill of various length, generally long, more or less curved, gene- 



