330 BIRDS OCCURRING IN INDIA NOT DESCRIBED 



bars on both webs, fulvous white on the centre feathers, and 

 rufous white on the exterior feathers ; these bars are scarcely- 

 visible ou the outer web of the exterior feathers. Chin and 

 upper part of throat pure white, a dark brown cheek stripe 

 from under the eye, margined with pale rufous ; ear-coverts 

 mingled pale brown and rufous white ; hinder portion of the 

 cheeks white, some of the feathers tinged pale rufous ; an ill- 

 defined brown stripe (the feathers slightly tinged with fulvous 

 white) running backwards from the posterior angle of the eye, 

 and dividing the white of the hind cheeks from the white of 

 the sides of the nape ; the lower throat and upper portion of 

 the breast fulvous white, each feather dark shafted, and with 

 a narrow somewhat pear-shaped streak of dark brown towards 

 the tip ; the rest of the breast, sides, and upper abdomen 

 fulvous white, each feather with a well-marked central stripe 

 of brown, narrowest in front, broadest towards the sides ; 

 lower abdomen and vent white, slightly tinged with fulvous, 

 a few of the feathers dark shafted. Lower tail-coverts, (which 

 do not reach within two inches of the end of the tail) white, 

 with two or three transverse, somewhat wavy, bars of pale 

 brown ; interior thigh-coverts white ; exterior thigh-coverts 

 white, tinged with fulvous, each feather dark shafted, and with 

 a central lanceolate stripe of brown ; under surface of tail 

 and quills greyish brown, the bars above-mentioned showing 

 through ; the lower wing-coverts, all reddish brown, conspi- 

 cuously margined at the tip, and the longer ones barred, with 

 somewhat fulvous white. 



Adult female. — Dimensions. — Length, 17*25; expanse, 41; 

 tail from vent, 7*25 ; foot, greatest length, 4*5 ; greatest width, 

 4 ; wing, 13 ; wings, when closed, reach to within 1*87 of 

 end of tail ; tarsus, 1*75 ; mid toe to root of claw, 1*9 ; 

 weight, 1-87 lbs. 



The irides deep brown ; the cere, gape and orbital skin, 

 as well as the legs and feet, bright yellow ; the claws black, 

 and the corneous portion of the bill blue, changing to horny 

 black at the tip ; the forehead and the centre of the top 

 of the head sandy rufous, each feather with a dark brown 

 shaft ; the sides of the top and the back of the head a some- 

 what ashy or slaty brown, the feathers more or less margin- 

 ed with sandy rufous. A broad rufous half collar running 

 round the back of the neck, a little mottled behind the 

 ear-coverts, aud again in the centre of the back of the neck, 

 with dusky slaty. The whole mantle slaty grey, dark and 

 dusky towards the base of the neck, and paling towards the 

 rump and upper tail-coverts. Most, if not all, of the feathers 

 narrowly margined paler, those towards the nape with rufous, 



