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and those lower down with greyish white. Most of the feathers 

 also somewhat conspicuously darker shafted, and all exhibiting 

 broad, transverse, somewhat ill-defined, dusky slaty bands. 

 The rump and upper tail-coverts pale slaty or French grey, 

 with brown shafts, and transverse arrow head dusky bars. The 

 tail-feathers pale slaty grey, tipped with rufous, and with 

 numerous broad, transverse, well defined, slaty brown bars, 

 broadest towards the tips. A blackish line under the eye, con- 

 tinued downwards for about an inch and a quarter, as a narrow 

 cheek stripe ; the two cheek stripes nearly meeting on the 

 throat, about an inch and a half below the base of the lower 

 mandible ; the whole of the lower parts, a rich rufous salmon 

 colour, somewhat paler on the chin and centre of the throat, 

 and deeper on the ear-coverts, sides of the neck, and centre of 

 the abdomen ; the breast, chin, and throat perfectly spotless ; 

 the abdomen, flanks, lower tail-coverts and tibial plumes regu- 

 larly, but rather widely, barred with slaty brown ; the bars 

 everywhere narrow, being nearly obsolete in the centre of the 

 abdomen, and best marked on the flanks ; the under wino-- 

 coverts of a pale salmon colour, conspicuously barred with 

 brown. — Hume, " Rough Notes." 



18— Cerchneis naumanni, Fleish. 



Adult Male. — Upper surface of body rich cinnamon-rufous ; 

 entire head and hind neck, lower back, rump, upper tail-coverts, 

 and tail blue-grey, the latter tipped with white, and crossed by 

 a broad subterminal baud of black ; lores and a few streaks on 

 the cheeks whitish ; lesser and medium wing-coverts cinnamon- 

 rufous, like the back, a few of the outer ones of the latter 

 series washed with blue-grey ; the greater coverts and inner 

 secondaries blue-grey, washed with rufous externally ; primaries 

 dark-brown ; throat deep fulvous white ; breast pale cinnamon 

 or vinous, with a few blackish spots on the breast, becoming 

 larger on the sides of the body ; thighs paler rufous, unspotted ; 

 abdomen and under tail-coverts yellowish white ; under wing- 

 coverts white, with a few tiny black oval spots larger on the 

 axillaries ; bill lightish blue, yellow at base, and blackish at 

 tip ; cere, orbits, and feet beautiful yellow, the claws generally 

 white, very rarely inclining to blackish ; iris dark brown. Total 

 length, 12'5 inches ; culmen, 0*75 ; wing, 91 ; tail, 6 ; tarsus, 1/2. 



Adult Female. — Dissimilar to the male. Above tawny rufous, 

 transversely crossed by bars of blackish brown, narrower and 

 more obscure on the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts, 



