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23&i's.-— Astur poliopsis,* Hume. 



\\th March 1878, Male.— Length, 13-0; expanse, 23-25 ; 

 "wing, 7*50 ; tail from vent, 6*25 ; tarsus, 1*80 ; bill from gape, 

 0'83 ; bill at front, including cere, 0*75 ; closed wings fall short 

 of end of tail, 2*75 ; weight, 5*87 oz. Irides blood red ; legs 

 yellow ; cere greenish yellow ; orbital skin verditer. 



25^A March 1878, "Young Male.— Length, 12*25 ; expanse, 

 23*50 ; wing, 7*16 ; tail from vent, 6*33 ; tarsus, 1*66 ; bill from 

 gape, 0*75 ; bill at front, including cere, - 68 ; closed wings 

 fall short of end of tail, 3 33 ; weight, 4*12 oz. Irides yellow ; 

 legs dusky yellow ; bill bluish ; cere greenish. 



18^ April 1878, Adult Female. — Length, 14*50 ; expanse, 

 24*50 ; wing, 8*16 ; tail from vent, 7*0; tarsus, 2*0; bill from 

 gape, 0*83 ; bill at front, including cere, 0*82 ; closed wings fall 

 short of end of tail, 3*0 • weight, 8 62 oz. Bill, above black, be- 

 low blue ; cere greenish yellow ; irides bright yellow ; legs pale 

 yellow ; claws black ; mouth, inside black. 



26th May 1878, Female.— Length, 13*0; expanse, 26*0; 

 wing, 7*92 • tail from vent, 6*25 ; tarsus, 2*0 ; bill from gape, 

 0*90 ; bill at front, including cere, 0*85 ; closed wings fall short 

 of end of tail, 2*50 ; weight, 7*25 oz. Irides bright yellow ; 

 legs dusky yellow ; feet bright yellow ; claws bluish horny ; 

 orbits very light yellow ; eyelids dark ; bill, horny above; gape, 

 above and below bluish, tinged yellow ; lower mandible, base 

 blue; tip, horny; cere greenish yellow; ovaries minute. 



Common, and a permanent resident. In No. 1 the subter- 

 minal dark band on the central tail feathers is very faint. 

 The thigh coverts in the adult male are unstriated and white, 

 whereas in the female they are faintl} 7- barred fulvous with 

 a few spots of fulvous. The young birds have the upper 

 breast closely barred fulvous. Both Nos. 1 and 3, which I take 

 to be adults, have the central tail feathers unbarred ; but 

 there are dark patches on the shafts of the feathers to show 

 where the bars once were. The outer tail feathers of No. 3 

 (female) are barred, whereas in the adult male, they are 

 unbarred. No. 4 had evidently been in confinement at some 

 time as the wire ring on its right foot shows. 



On the 18th April 1878, I found a nest of one of these birds 

 which contained one very slightly-incubated egg ; it was built 

 in a fork high up near the top of a Peepul tree, and was 

 a ragged affair of twigs with an attempt at a lining of fine grass 

 roots principally of " doon." The egg was devoid of markings, 

 but was soiled, evidently by the birds' droppings, iu a few 



* Though these are not quite typical, they are much closer to poliopsis than to 

 badius.—Ed. S. F. 



