474 CERIOKNIS BLYTHI, JERD. 



buffy or fulvous fawn bars ; the quills and greater primary 

 coverts are similar to the basal portions of the tail ; the whole 

 of the lower breast, abdomen, and vent a pale dove-brown or 

 dove-grey, each feather with an inconspicuous ill-defined some- 

 what paler patch towards the tip ; the flanks and sides of the 

 breast are marked like the back ; the tibial plumes are more or 

 less ferruginous, interiorly, but exteriorly, are narrowly barred 

 brown and fulvous ; the lower tail-coverts are dusky, faintly 

 barred like the quills, broadly tipped with very pale dove-brown, 

 or brownish white, and tinged laterally and at the tips with 

 rufous ; the wing-lining (except the larger lower coverts, which 

 are satin grey) is bright ferruginous, redder towards the tips 

 and yellower towards the bases of the feathers. 



The female is considerably smaller. 



Length, 18 to 20; wing, 8*5 to 9; tarsus, 2*9 to 3*1 ; mid- 

 toe, 2 - 2 ; its claw, straight, 07 ; bill from frontal feathers straight 

 to point, 98 ; from gape, 1*4. 



The ground of the entire mantle is black, each feather very 

 finely, almost microscopically, freckled, chiefly along a broad 

 central band with more or less rufous buff, and with one large, 

 irregular zig-zaggy, somewhat arrowhead-shaped, spot towards 

 the tip; in connection with this spot one or more irregular 

 wavy bars generally go off right and left towards, or to the 

 margins of feathers, which bars are often more ferruginous 

 than the rest of the markings : these spots are most conspi- 

 cuous on the interscapulary region, and almost disappear 

 on the rump and upper tail-coverts where the frecklings 

 on the other hand extend over nearly the whole feather ; the 

 tail is blackish brown, thickly set with irregular, mottled, wavy 

 transverse bars of ferruginous and ferruginous buff; the 

 longest upper tail-coverts partake of the deep ferruginous tint 

 of the tail markings; the primaries and secondaries much 

 like the tail, but the ground a shade browner, and the markings 

 less thickly set and nearly confined to the outer webs ; the 

 coverts and tertiaries partake of the characters of the mantle, 

 as do the head and back of the neck, though in both these latter 

 the markings are more bar-like and much less conspicuous. 



The chin and upper throat are greyish creamy ; the feathers 

 margined with greyish brown, and with traces of a spot of this 

 running in almost to the shaft, about half way up the feather ; 

 the rest of the front and sides of the neck and upper-breast 

 in much the same style as the back of the neck and mantle, 

 but the ground brown, the frecklings duller in colour and 

 more diffuse, and the spot only indicated. 



The rest of the breast and the abdomen a sort of greyish 

 creamy, thickly set with freckly, imperfect bar-like brown 



