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vous or rusty brown, the black intermediate narrow bands showing 

 through. Wing-coverts rufous brown, traversed with distinct dark- 

 brown irregular lines. Some of the minor coverts with rusty-fulvous 

 terminal spots. Many of the other wing-coverts with large ovoid 

 pure white terminal spots, with a dark brown margin above and on 

 their inner margins. Shorter scapulars with the inner webs fulvous 

 or rusty, crossed by dark brown lines or narrow bars. Outer webs 

 pale greyish white, crossed by fine zigzag brown lines and black 

 terminal dots. Some of the longer the same, but with ill-defined 

 white ocelli on their outer margins. Other long scapulars alike on 

 both webs, pale rufous, much vermiculated with pale greyish-browa 

 and with broad intervening incomplete bands of white or greyish- 

 white. Quills dark brown, which runs at broad intervals through 

 the pale rufous of the outer webs. Tips of the quills mottled vrith 

 pale rufous. Tertiaries pale rufous or tawny-rufous, much striated 

 with fine irregular brown lines ; a bolder dark brown subterminal 

 mark. Inner tertiaries obsoletely marked with four or five pale 

 greyish white bands. Chin and throat rusty, with brown transverse 

 lines. Some of the lateral feathers with a dark brown or black sub- 

 terminal spot. Lower throat-plumes with terminal large pure white 

 drops, margined above with a narrow dark brown line, thus forming 

 a white necklace. Upper pectoral plumes like those of the chin and 

 throat, but with subterminal dark brown marks and some admi.xture 

 of grey in the ground-colour, some faintly tipped with greyish 

 white, others with fulvous. Lower pectoral plumes pale fulvous- 

 grey, with transverse dingy brown irregular lines, and broadly tipped 

 with pure white, faintly edged with brown. Lower down these white- 

 tipped plumes have a much more white than fulvous ground at the 

 base. Abdominal feathers fulvous, terminated with white, and trans- 

 versely striated with pale greyish brown. Ventral region and under 

 tail-coverts fulvous-rusty, with obscure white terminal spots and 

 subdued subterminal brown marks. Under wing-coverts the same. 

 Axillaries dingy fulvous-grey, tipped almost white. Frontal rigid 

 plumes and bristles black. Wing 4'75, tail 4'75, tarsus 0'50, middle 

 toe 070, bill from forehead 0-90, width of gape 1-20. 



Structure normal. Tarsus feathered anteriorly for a quarter of its 

 length. 



No. 5, cS (?), ex Malabar ? (Mus. Brit.). This specimen is labelled 

 Madras ; but its mode of preparation is what we find in all west- 

 coast trade skins. None of my Ceylon examples resemble it 

 excepting in the white collars, scapulars, and pectoral plumes ; and 

 these last are not so prominent as in B. moniliger (S , ex Ceylon. 



General coloration mixed grey, fulvous, black, and white ; only 

 traces of pale rufous. Frontal plumes tawny at base, much vermi- 

 culated with brown and with black subterminal spots or bands. 

 Feathers of the head and occipital crest pale ashy brown, many with 

 black subterminal spots, and all tipped with very pale fulvous ; 

 equally pale fulvous spots on either web ; others so marked and 

 coloured, but without the black spots. Feathers comprising the 

 nuchal collar tawny at base, with a ievf fine transverse irregular pale 



