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lower surface, and the disc has a good deal of white ; the 

 scapulars are white externally with black tips ; and the bars on 

 the quills and tail feathers are more distinct brown and mottled. 



I obtained a specimen of this bird at Khandalla, but I identi- 

 fied it as E. pennatus, in the rufous phase. 



Heteroglaux (Carine) blewitti, Hume. 



IGquint. Stray Feathers, Vol. I, p. 468. 



c?. Length, 8'8 ; wing, 5'8; tail, 275 ; tarsus,! ; bill from 

 gape, 0*65. 



? . Length, 9*5 ; expanse, 22 '5 ; wing, 5 '8 ; tarsus, 0'91 ; tail 

 2-9. 



The lores, a line over the eye, a broad line under the eye, and 

 a triangular patch immediately behind the eye, white ; the bristles 

 of the lores, with the terminal halves, black ; the longest bristles 

 reach just to the tip of the bill. From the gape, runs a stripe 

 backwards, enveloping the whole of the ear-coverts, in color a 

 rather dark earth-brown, obsoletely barred with albescent ; chin 

 and throat, and the sides of the lower mandible, below the stripe 

 above mentioned, pure white ; across this from the base of the 

 lower mandible, on one side to the base on the other runs a 

 conspicuous, transverse, dark-brown band. Forehead, top, and 

 back of the head, back, and sides of the neck, scapulars, and 

 interscapulary region an uniform rather dark earth brown ; on 

 lifting the feathers of the back of the neck and on lifting the 

 scapulars, each feather is found to have a white bar about mid- 

 way between base and tip, or in some cases nearer the tip, but 

 these are not visible when the feathers are in repose. The 

 wings are hair-brown, darkest on the primaries, secondaries and 

 their greater coverts, and more nearly concolorous with the 

 scapulars, on the lesser and median coverts, and tertiaries. 

 All the quills have four or five conspicuous white spots on the 

 outer webs, and corresponding imperfect bars (not quite reaching 

 to the shafts) on the inner webs, which bars are pale brown 

 towards the tips, and higher up pure white. The winglet, which 

 is almost blackish brown, is similarly marked. The primary 

 greater coverts similar, the rest of the greater, and some of the 

 median-coverts, with very large conspicuous white spots near the 

 tips on the outer webs. The lesser-coverts and most of the 

 median unspotted ; rump and upper tail-coverts, uniform brown, 

 rather darker than the interscapulary region, some of them exhi- 

 biting, when lifted, a concealed white bar as in the scapulars. 

 Tail hair brown, tipped white, a,nd with three conspicuous trans- 

 verse white bars, a fourth, a less perfect one, concealed by the 

 upper tail-coverts. The breast feathers are mostly white, but 

 are broadly tipped with hair-brown, which, owing to the overlap- 

 ping of the feathers, is what is chiefly seen. The sides of the 

 breast of this same color, but with traces of white bands well 

 inside the tips, and not noticeable till the feathers are lifted. 



