342 BIRDS OCCURRING IN INDIA NOT DESCRIBED 



very wedge-shaped, reminding one of that of the Lammer- 

 geyer dark brown, mottled all over with dingy 

 yellowish white, which colour predominates on the inner 

 webs ; the quills, winglet, and greater primary-coverts choco- 

 late brown; the second to the fifth primaries conspicuously 

 emarginate on the outer web, and with a grey silvery tinge 

 above the emarginations ; the first to the fifth primaries con- 

 spicuously notched on the inner webs ; the chin and throat pale 

 buffy brown ; the feathers whitish at the base and darker at the 

 tips; the flanks and. thigh-coverts pale yellowish brown, the 

 feathers tipped darker; the lower tail-coverts dingy white, 

 broadly tipped with brown, which, in the longer ones, is a dark 

 hair brown ; in the shorter a dull yellowish brown ; wing-lining 

 a sort of umber brown ; the bases of all the feathers paler, some 

 of them fawn coloured, and some of them white. 



Female. — The legs, feet, cere and gape a sort of brownish 

 yellow; the upper mandible and claws blackish horny; the 

 tip of the lower mandible yellowish horny ; the whole of the 

 head, nape, sides of the neck, cheeks, chin, and throat pale 

 yellowish brown ; the feathers white, tipped with yellowish brown, 

 which, owing to the feathers being closely set, is the predomi- 

 nant colour, especially on the top of the head ; the ear-coverts 

 a darker brcwn ; the whole of the back of the neck, back, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts, breast, sides, abdomen, vent, and lower 

 tail-coverts, white, comparatively narrowly tipped with yellowish 

 brown, and many of the feathers, with a narrow linear ovate, 

 hair brown shaft spot near the tip. As in the male the upper 

 tail-coverts are ovate lanceolate, very broad and long, and. 

 reach to within less than six inches of the end of the long 

 wedge-shaped tail, most of the scapulars and the tail-feathers 

 are a mixture of dull dark and pale dingy yellowish brown, 

 everywhere mottled and freckled with dirty white, which occu- 

 pies almost the whole of the inner webs of the lateral tail- 

 feathers ; the wing-coverts, except the greater primary-coverts, 

 are wood brown, showing little or nothing of the white bases ; 

 most of the tertiaries are mottled white, and dingy yellowish 

 brown, like the tail ; the secondaries are a dull, slightly rufous 

 brown, much mottled on the interior webs with white, and the 

 primaries are dark chocolate brown, greyish above the emar- 

 ginations ; some of the primary greater coverts are dark 

 chocolate brown, and others are a pale rufous brown. 



From leucoryphus this species differs, first, in the much deeper 

 and far less sinuated upper mandible ; second in the tarsus, 

 feathered in front, for from five-eighths to three-fifths of the 

 length ; third in the excessively rounded, or in fact wedge-shaped 

 tail ; and fourth in the very long and broad upper tail-coverta. 



