378 BIRDS OCCURRING IN INDIA NOT DESCRIBED 



white ; lores black ; all the upper surface, wings, and tail chest- 

 nut red ; bill black ; feet brown. 



Total length, 4*5 inches ; bill, 062 ; wing, 2*75 ; tail, 2 ; 

 tarsi, 1-25.— Gould, P., Z. S. 9 1868, 218. 



343 ter.— Arrenga blighi, Holdsw. 



In the adult, or perhaps nearly adult, male the whole head, 

 nape, and throat pure black ; back, wing-coverts and breast 

 black, strongly glossed with indigo ; carpal joint dark smalt 

 blue; wings, tail, rump, flanks, and abdomen dusky brown, 

 the two last slightly rufous ; the upper tail-coverts, rump, 

 and flanks are tinged with blue, and it is not improbable 

 that in an older bird these parts may become of the same colour 

 as the back and breast. In the young the whole bird is brown, 

 darker on the upper surface and more rufous below ; the fea- 

 thers of the forehead, throat, and breast centred with yellow- 

 brown, and there is an indication of blue on the carpal joint. 



The dimensions of the adult male are : — Length, 8 inches ; 

 wing, 4*4 ; tail, 3 - 5 ; tarsus, 1*4 ; bill at front, 06. 



Bill black ; irides greyish; feet black. 



An adult female, shot by Mr. Bligh, but almost knocked to 

 pieces, had very much the character of a young bird of the 

 same sex I obtained at Nuwara Eliya ; and the wing spot was 

 brighter, but not of so deep a blue as in the male. — Holdsworth y 

 P. Z. S., 1872, 444. 



349 bis.— Cinclus pallasi, Tern, 



Both sexes alike. The whole upper and lower surface, 

 head and neck of one uniform smoky brown tint or soot colour; 

 feathers of the back margined blackish ; the wings and tail of a 

 greyish black, but the wing-coverts margined sooty ; the tail 

 has twelve feathers ; iris blue ; bill black ; legs and feet grey. 

 Length, 8*78 inches. 



The birds of the year have the upper parts of a deep brown, 

 but each feather broadly margined black ; throat whitish ; the 

 feathers margined brown ; the rest of the lower parts of a 

 blackish grey, with a white crescent at the tip of each feather ; 

 the quills and tail-feathers narrowly bordered with white, and 

 tiny spots of this latter on the wing-coverts ; feet of a very- 

 light grey. — Tern: Man. d'Orn. 



