360 BIRDS OCCURRING IN INDIA NOT DESCRIBED 



of faint minute transverse brown bars ; chin white ; the fea- 

 thers of the extreme tip somewhat bristly and curving upwards 

 round lower mandible ; across the throat and upwards imme- 

 diately behind the ear orifice, as far as the base of the aigrettes, 

 a band of creamy or pale buff feathers, with numerous minute, 

 transverse wavy brown pencillings and bars ; those from the 

 aigrettes to the sides of the throat with conspicuous dark 

 brown tippings, which form the defining line of the disc, and a 

 few of those in the centre of the throat with similarly coloured 

 spots at the tips ; forehead and a broad supercilium run- 

 ning up the inside webs of the aigrette feathers, and a curved 

 band at the back of the head, extending from the point of one 

 aigrette to the point of the other (when laid flat on the head,^ 

 a silvery grey or greyish white, the feathers with dark brown 

 shafts, and numerous minute, transverse pencillings of that 

 colour, and some of them with terminal spots ; centre of fore- 

 head and top of head, a triangular space surrounded by this 

 grey band, a rich dark brown ; purest on the centre of the 

 forehead, with small twin spots or imperfect transverse bars and 

 mottlings, to a greater or less extent, of pale buff ; the out- 

 side webs of the aigrettes are similar, as are the feathers of 

 the band outside and contiguous to the curved grey band, 

 which latter seems continuous with the dark line of the outer 

 webs of the aigrette, while the former seems to start imme- 

 diately above the centre of the eye ; below the dark band, at 

 the base of the neck, is another band of very similarly marked 

 feathers, but whereas the dark brown predominates in the for- 

 mer, the buff much predominates in the latter. The back, rump, 

 upper tail-coverts, scapulars, wiug-coverts, except the great- 

 er ones of the primaries, a mixture of pale brownish grey 

 and pale buffy, with dark brown central streaks, and nu- 

 merous transverse wavy brown pencillings and mottlings. 

 In the outside line of the scapulars the buff is very pure and 

 in some positions conspicuous, and while the rump, upper 

 tail and lesser wing-coverts are dingier and greyer, the centre 

 of the upper back and the median and secondary wing-coverts 

 shew more of a pale buff ; the primary greater coverts are 

 very dark brown, with broad transverse buffy mottled bars ; 

 the quills are darkish brown, with numerous broad trans- 

 verse greyish, more or less dingy, w T hite bars, much more 

 conspicuous on the outer webs ; with the exception of a few 

 bars on the upper portion of the outer webs of the earlier pri- 

 maries, which are unmottled and slightly tinged with creamy, 

 all the rest of these bars are closely mottled and pencilled 

 with brown ; the second, third and fourth primaries are just 

 perceptibly emarginate on the outer webs, and the first to the 



