328 BIRDS OCCURRING IN INDIA NOT DESCRIBED 



The cere and feet appear to have been bright yellow ; the 

 claws black ; the bill pale blue, darker towards the tip, and 

 faintly tinged with yellowish at the junction with the cere at 

 the gape, and at the base of the lower mandible. 



Lores white, with a narrow dark streak running along the 

 lower margin of the orbits ; foi'ehead rufescent white ; the 

 feathers dark shafted, and the posterior ones blending with 

 those of the crown and occiput, which are dark brown, broadly 

 margined with bright rufous. Immediately above the eye is 

 an indistinct narrow whitish supercilium, the feathers of 

 which are dark-shafted. Beyond the eye this supercilium is 

 continued as a broad, ill-defined, bright rufous band round the 

 nape, the feathers of which are narrowly dark shafted; the 

 feathers of the posterior halves of the sides, and also of the 

 back of the neck, bright rufous and dark brown, the centres 

 of the feathers being brown, and the margins rufous ; upper 

 back, scapulars, coverts, tertiaries, and secondaries, brown, dark 

 on the interscapulary region and lesser coverts, paler and greyer 

 elsewhere, and all broadly barred with bright rufous ; lower 

 back and rump ashy, with broad bars of pale rufous ; upper 

 tail-coverts similar, but browner, and the pale rufous more or 

 less replaced by fulvous white ; tail-feathers ashy brown, 

 tipped whitish or rufous, and with ten or eleven broad regular 

 transverse bars of dull rufous ; cheeks dull rufescent white ; 

 ear-coverts mingled rufous and dark brown. A rather long, 

 very narrow, dark brown cheek stripe, from the gape, running 

 down either side of the throat ; chin, throat, breast, abdomen, 

 vent, and lower tail-coverts white, faintly tinged with rufous 

 cream colour on the breast and abdomen, with dark brown 

 points to a few of the feathers of the sides of the breast, and 

 with a few brown drop-like spots on the abdomen and lower 

 tail-coverts ; sides and flanks rufescent white, with broad 

 dark brown transverse bars ; primaries, brown on the outer 

 webs and at the tips ; the first quill narrowly margined on its 

 outer web with bright rufous, and the rest with imperfect bars 

 of the same colour on their basal halves ; the inner webs above 

 the tips are white, becoming rufescent towards the shafts, from 

 which numerous imperfect tooth-like brown bars project over 

 somewhat less than half the breadth of the web ; the first 

 quill is strongly notched on its inner web about 2| inches from 

 the tip ; the second and third are similarly, but much less per- 

 ceptibly notched ; the second quill is perceptibly emarginate 

 on the outer web. — Hume, "Lahore to Yarkand" 



