410 BIRDS OCCURRING IN INDIA NOT DESCRIBED 



wings black, with a green gloss; forehead albescent; hinder 

 feathers of crest brownish black, with albescent shafts. General 

 colour of breast, throat, vent, and under tail-coverts albescent, 

 the shafts of the feathers on the throat shining white." — 

 Layard. 



693 ter.— Eulabes ptilogenys, Blyth. 



This species has no bare skin on the cheek ; but the occi- 

 pital lappets are well developed, and the basal half of the lower 

 mandible is black. Length of wing, 6 inches. Colouring as 

 in the two Indian species, the smaller of which (that of the 

 Peninsula of India) is also an inhabitant of Ceylon. — Blyth. 

 "Ibis," 1867. 



This species may be readily distinguished by the yellow 

 lappets at the back of the head, and the absence of any naked 

 skin about the eye and cheeks. 



Bill deep orange, base black ; irides brown ; lappets yellow ; 

 feet dull yellow.— Holdsworth, P. Z. S., 1872. 



700 bis.— Munia kelaarti, Blyth. 



Brown above, with pale stems to the feathers, nearly obsolete 

 on the back, and passing to blackish on the forehead ; wings, 

 rump, and tail, throat and foreneck, with the cheeks, deep 

 brown black; the small upper tail-coverts variegated with 

 white, and the greater are largely tipped with fulvous ; under- 

 pays variegated ; the breast brown, and belly and lower tail- 

 coverts black, the last having white medial streaks, and the 

 rest of the underparts white subterminal bands, and the flank 

 feathers a second, and some of them a third, white cross band 

 in addition; bill livid bluish, and feet dark plumbeous. 

 Wing, 212 inches.— Blyth, " Ibis," 1867. 



720 bis. — Emberiza striolata, LichL 



Dimensions. — Male. — Length, 5'75 to 5*97 ; "expanse, 9'37 to 

 9*75 ; tail from vent, 2"45 to 2'75 ; wing from carpal joint to 

 tip of longest primary, 2 96 to 3*1 ; and when closed reaching 

 within 1*1 to 1*3 of the end of the tail; foot, greatest length, 



