334 BIRDS OCCURRING IN INDIA NOT DESCRIBED 



traces of darker bars on the outer webs ; tail greyish brown 

 or brownish slaty, with five broad transverse dark brown bars ; 

 the upper bar hidden by the upper tail-coverts ; the subtermi- 

 nal bar broadest ; a narrow white tipping, most conspicuous on 

 the centre feathers ; the lores white, a trace of a whitish streak 

 behind the eye; cheeks rufous white, the feathers with dark 

 brown linear central stripes ; the ear-coverts rufous, with dark 

 central stripes, and the longer feathers tipped blackish brown ; 

 a black line immediately under the eye running over the ear- 

 coverts, and lost in the dark tips of these ; chin and throat 

 rufous white, most rufous towards the sides of the neck, and 

 each feather with a dark shaft, or narrow dark central stripe ; 

 the whole of the breast, abdomen, sides, thigh-coverts, axillaries, 

 and lining of the wing white, conspicuous^, closely and 

 broadly barred with dark brown ; many of the feathers with a 

 rufous tinge towards the tips, and some of them especially in 

 the flanks, with rufous, more or less taking the place of the 

 brown bar ; the lower taikcoverts nearest the vent, narrowly 

 barred with paler brown ; the longer tail-coverts pure white ; a 

 conspicuous patch of rusty or pale chestnut on the sides ; inner 

 webs of the primaries strongly barred white, or greyish white, 

 and dark brown ; the bars perpendicular, or nearly so to the 

 shaft, and not slanting as in European specimens of nisus that 

 I have examined ; the whole barring of the under surface is 

 much closer and more conspicuous than in any of the specimens 

 of nisus from Europe, with which I have compared it ; the bars 

 being in one quite as broad, and in the other nearly as broad as 

 the white interspaces. The feet are larger ; the hind toe and 

 claw, and inner toe and claw, conspicuously so. 



Young Male. — Irides bright yellow ; legs and feet dingy 

 yellow ; upper plumage umber brown, edged rufous and 

 centered darker (almost black) on head and nape ; upper tail- 

 coverts (a trifle paler than the back,) dark shafted ; tail a drab 

 brown, narrowly white tipped, with five moderately broad dark 

 brown transverse bars ; on both webs of all the feathers, except 

 the outer webs of the external laterals, where they are indistinct, 

 though not altogether wanting, one of the five bars being high 

 up and hidden by the upper tail-coverts ; forehead whitish, a 

 conspicuous yellowish white band ; feathers brown shafted, run- 

 ning backwards from top of the eye over ear-coverts, fully one 

 inch long ; lores dingy white, a trace of dark line through 

 them to the eye-line under the eye, and terminal halves of ear- 

 coverts reddish or umber brown ; rest of ear-coverts, whole chin, 

 throat and sides of neck pale fulvous, with conspicuous, very 

 narrow, central stripes to feathers ; breast and upper abdomen 

 pale buffy, with numerous conspicuous narrow transverse arrow- 



