32 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



the anterior half of the crown, greyish white ; middle of fore- 

 head barred greyish white and brown ; crown, occiput, nape, 

 upper portion of sides of the neck, and entire mantle, deep 

 brown, with narrow wavy pale rufescent transverse bars, nar- 

 rowest on the crown ; aigrettes of numerous feathers, from 

 about 2 to 2'5 long ; upper feathers barred like the forehead, the 

 lower ones blackish brown, unbarred or only slightly barred 

 towards their margins or tips. Some of the under-scapulars 

 white, with black bars ; coverts about the shoulder of the wing, 

 winglet, and primary greater coverts plain, very dark brown ; 

 rest of the coverts and scapulars much like the upper back, 

 but the rufescent bars wider, and with mottled brown centres, 

 (in the lower feathers, often as it were dividing each rufescent 

 bar into two), and a few of the coverts white-tipped. Terti- 

 aries similar again, but the pale bars less rufescent, and more 

 distinctly broken up by an interior brown Hue, or line of brown 

 spots. 



Upper tail-coverts hair brown, with narrow trausverse rufes- 

 cent bars like the upper back; tail deep brown, conspicuously 

 white-tipped, the white a good deal freckled with brown, 

 and with five rather narrow transverse rufescent white 

 bars, also mottled and spotted with brown ; inner webs 

 of laterals broadly banded paler with white towards the bases 

 where these bars are broadest, and grey brown towards the 

 tips ; primaries above the emarginations and secondaries 

 with broad paler bars, more or less defined by a darker line 

 on either side, and mottled with brown. These paler bars 

 vary in color, in some places they are a pale fawn color, in 

 others pale greyish brown, in others sordid lutescent white. 



Primaries beyond the emarginations darker brown, with 

 traces of paler bars ; inner webs of quills broadly banded 

 paler, white towards the bases where these coalesce more or 

 less, and occupy the greater portion of the surface of the 

 feather, and pale grey brown towards the tips ; cheeks and 

 ear-coverts mottled grey brown and dingy white ; chin and 

 bristles of the gape, and base of lower mandible white ; entire 

 throat and breast white, all the feathers towards their tips 

 closely banded with blackish brown. 



A more or less rufescent brown tinge on the feathers of the 

 sides of the breast, extending in some right across the breast 

 and forming a pectoral band. 



Abdomen, sides, flanks, vent, lower tail-coverts white, with 

 broader and more widely separated blackish brown bands ; 

 tibial and tarsal plumes similar, but the bands narrower and 

 closer set. 



Lowermost feathers of the feet and the inner portion of 

 tarsi unbarred ; axillaries barred like the flanks ; wing- 



