APPENDIX. 445 



Centre of abdomen, tibial, and tarsal plumes, toe-feathers, and 

 lower tail-coverts pure white ; sides of abdomen, sides and flanks, 

 broadly banded with hair-brown. 



Erythrosterna hyperythra, Cab. 



323ter. Stray Feathers, Vol. VII, p. 376. 



Length, 5'33 ; wing, 2'88 ; tail, 3'3 ; tarsus, 078. 



Bill dusky above, yellow beneath ; irides dark brown ; feet 

 purplish brown. 



The upper surface is brownish-grey, turning to a purer grey on 

 the rump and upper tail-coverts ; tail black, with the basal halves 

 of the lateral rectrices white ; the upper tail-coverts, especially 

 the longest, are blackish in parts, especially on the outer webs. 

 The lower surface is a bright red-brcwn or rusty-red, except on 

 the middle of the abdomen, which is pure white. The red-brown 

 color is most intense on the throat and breast, lighter on the con- 

 trary and mingled with albescent on the sides of the abdomen 

 and lower tail-coverts. The prevailing hue of the tibial plumes 

 is grey ; the loral region is somewhat dotted with white ; the 

 sides of the head and neck contrast in pure, and not brownish 

 grey with the upper surface, and are divided from the red-brown 

 of throat and breast by an irregular blackish line ; the under 

 wing-coverts are tinged with rusty yellow. 



The distinguishing characters of the species are the rich 

 orange-brown of the throat and breast, and the black stripe run- 

 ning from the bill down the sides of the neck to the breast, and 

 terminating below the bend of the closed wing. The specimens 

 I obtained were both males, adult and immature ; and the above 

 characters are distinct in both, but much more so in the older 

 bird. Stray Feathers, Vol. VII, p. 376. 



Megalurus palustris, Horsf. 



440. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 70. 



THE STRIATED MARSH BABBLER. 



<?. Length, 9'9 to 10'62 ; expanse, 12 to 13 ; tail, 475 to 512 ; 

 wing, 3'8 to 415 ; tarsus, 1*3 to T5 ; bill from gape, 0'95 to 1. 



? . Length, 8'8 ; expanse, 10'5 ; tail, 4'37 ; wing, 3'62 ; tarsus, 

 1-2; bill from gape, 0'9. 



Bill, upper mandible dark brown, lower fleshy-white ; irides 

 wood brown ; legs and feet dark horny, pink or pale brown. 



Upper parts bright olive-brown, with a mesial black stripe to each 

 feather of the back and scapulars ; the edges of the wing-feathers 

 also brown ; tail pale dusky-brown, with light edges to the feathers ; 

 crown rufescent, with mesial dark lines, obsolete towards the 

 front, and the feathers small, rigid and oppressed ; a pale whitish 

 streak over the eye ; beneath, the chin and throat are white, the 

 rest whitish, tinged with earthy-brown ; the breast and flanks 

 slightly speckled with br.own. 



