20 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



A fine male has the lores, eyelid feathers and the bases of the 

 frontal feathers, white; rest of forehead, crown, occiput, and nape, 

 earth brown ; feathers inconspicuously darker shafted ; upper 

 part of sides and back of the neck grey brown ; feathers incon- 

 spicuously darker shafted ; cheeks, ear-coverts and lower half of 

 sides of the neck brownish grey ; chin and middle of throat and 

 front of the neck white, or yellowish white, with a grey brown 

 central stripe ; the brown of the cheeks and sides of the throat, 

 where it meets the white, a little darker j interscapulary region 

 and scapulars earth brown, not so grey as the back of the neck ; 

 the feathers dark-shafted ; the back and upper tail-coverts pure 

 brown ; the latter conspicuously tipped and barred with pure 

 white; edge of the wing white, a little mottled with brown; 

 winglet, primaries, and their greater coverts pure brown ; the 

 primaries with the greater portion of their inner webs white, with 

 a ferruginous tinge on the upper surface on the white portion 

 nearest the shaft, and with several narrow imperfect widely se- 

 parated black bars on the inner web ; the whole of the rest of the 

 coverts and the secondaries visible in the closed wing brown, 

 strongly overlaid with ferruginous red; many of the feathers dark- 

 shafted, and the brown showing through here and there as a 

 mottling; when the wing is open, the secondaries are found to 

 have nearly the entire outer web ferruginous, a little mottled 

 with brown and with several imperfect narrow brown transverse 

 bars ; the tips of the feathers are darkish brown ; the extreme 

 tips again being paler ; the inner webs are white", shaded on 

 their inner portions with dusky rufous and with several narrow 

 transverse bars. The terminal portion of the tertiaries and 

 later secondaries are pale earth brown, paling still further to- 

 wards the tips ; the tail is rather pale brown, with three broad 

 transverse blackish bars on both webs, except on the outer tail 

 feathers where the bars are nearly obsolete on the inner and 

 quite so on the outer webs. One bar is about half an inch from 

 the tip ; the second about the middle of the tail ; and the third 

 a little beyond the tips of the upper tail-coverts ; the inter- 

 spaces between the 1st and 2nd and 2nd and 3rd bars are 

 markedly paler in the central tail feathers. The breast is a 

 nearly uniform brownish rufous, a little mottled with white, and 

 the feathers dark-shafted ; the abdomen, sides, flanks, tibial 

 plumes are white, transversely barred with brownish rufous, the 

 bars being broadest and closest on the upper abdomen ; many of 

 the bars, especially on the tibial plumes, are cuspidate ; the lower 

 tail-coverts are unmarked sordid white. The wing-lining is yel- 

 lowish white, with numerous, more or less, arrowhead-shaped 

 brownish rufous spots or bars ; the lower surface of the 

 tail is grey ; the bars showing through very clearly, except on the 

 outer tail feathers. 



