442 BIRDS OCCURRING IN INDIA NOT DESCRIBED 



with grey ; the sides of the rump and tibiee dusky grey, and 

 the feathers on the hind part of the abdomen dusky at the 

 base ; the wing may be described as brownish-black, with a 

 large patch of white, which includes many of the small coverts, 

 several of the secondary coverts, and eight of the secondary 

 .quills ; these white secondary coverts have their basal half 

 black, but that colour is not apparent when the feathers are 

 laid. 



Length to end of tail, 19 inches ; extent of wings, 32 ; wing, 

 from flexure, 9 ; tail, 4 ; bill along the ridge, 1*42 ; tarsus, 1*42. 



Female. — The female, which is much smaller, has the bill 

 less stout ; the feathers of the head less elongated and less glossy, 

 as are the scapulars and the feathers of the sides ; the bill is 

 light brown, yellowish on the ridge towards the end, with the 

 upper unguis dusky ; the lower yellowish-brown ; the tarsi 

 and toes are of a dingy yellowish brown; the iuterdigital mem- 

 branes dusky ; the claws brown ; the head and upper neck are 

 umber brown ; the lower neck all round dull ash grey ; the fea- 

 thers terminally edged with paler ; the lower parts are white ; 

 but the sides of the body and rump, with part of the abdomen, 

 are grey ; the axillars and lower wing-coverts brownish-grey ; 

 the back and scapulars are deep ash-grey, but on the %ind 

 part of the back that colour shades into black ; the tail dark 

 brown, tinged with grey ; the smaller wing-coverts are deep 

 grey, many of them tipped with pale grey ; the primaries, 

 their coverts, four outer secondaries, and five inner, with their 

 coverts, brownish black ; the seven other secondaries pure white 

 as are their coverts, unless at the base. 



Length to end of tail, 16 inches ; extent of wings, 28 ; wing, 

 from flexure, 825 ; tail, 3*25 ; bill along the ridge, 1*25 ; 

 tarsus, T25. — Macgillwray^ B. Birds. 



975 ter.— Daption capensis, Lin. 



Its weight varies from 14 to 18 ozs. ; there is no differ- 

 ence in the weight of the sexes, neither is there any visible 

 variation in their colouring, nor do they appear to be subject 

 to any seasonal change. 



Head, chin, back and sides of neck, upper parts of the back, 

 lesser wing-coverts, edge of the under surface of the wing, 

 and the primaries sooty brown ; wing-coverts, back and upper 

 tail-coverts white, each feather tipped with sooty brown ; 

 basal half of the tail white ; apical half sooty brown ; under 

 surface white ; the under tail-coverts tipped with sooty brown ; 



