292 BIEDS OF TENASSEMM. 



plains,) and especially so about Mooleyit. It keeps to the foi'ests 

 or its outskirts as a rule, but it sometimes at Mooleyit ventures 

 into the detached clumps of briars and scrub that stud the 

 grassy slopes near the summit. All the specimens I examined 

 had fed exclusively on insects. — W. D.] 



The following are dimensions, &c, recorded in the flesh : — 

 Males.— Length, 10*4 to 10-62; expanse, 12-0 to 13'0; tail 

 from vent, 4*4 to 4*5; wing, 4 to 4'2 ; tarsus, 1*5 to 1*6 j bill 

 from gape, 1*2 ; weight, 2-75 to 3*25 ozs. 



Females. — Length, 9'85 to 10"7 ; expanse, 1 1*62 ; tail from 

 vent, 4*0 to 4*5 ; wing, 38 to 4*5 ; tarsus, 1 # 45 to 1'65 ; bill, 

 from gape, 1'2 ; weight, 2*75 ozs. 



Legs, feet and claws very pale brown to reddish brown ; bill 

 black ; irides brown, or hazel-nut brown. 



The lores and point of the forehead black ; the rest of the forehead, 

 crown, occiput and a sort of tail to the occiput descending on to the 

 nape, bright ferruginous chestnut to deep ferruginous, almost ma- 

 roon, chestnut ; cheeks, ear-coverts, sides of the occiput, and upper 

 part of sides of the nape, delicate silvery grey, regularly striated 

 longitudinally with dusky ; feathers at the base of the lower man- 

 dible and chin black, the former sometimes slightly streaked sil- 

 very ; the black of the chin and of the feathers on the base of the 

 lower mandible shading into an intense ferruginous or ferruginous 

 red on the throat, whence this color extends, somewhat diluted, 

 over the rest of the front of the neck. Most generally only a 

 trace of this extends on to the breast, but the birds are very 

 variable in this respect, and in some specimens this ferruginous, 

 though less ruddy and less intense in character, spreads 

 over the whole of the upper breast, the middle part of the 

 lower breast, and upper abdomen, and in one specimen before 

 me, right down to the vent. Normally, however, the breast, 

 abdomen, sides, flanks, vent, lower tail-coverts, tibial plumes 

 are all a clear olive brown or olive ; the sides a little 

 shaded with grey, and the middle of the breast and its sides 

 a little suffused with a paler, duller and less ferruginous tinge 

 of the color of the lower neck. Of course, where the ruddy 

 or ferruginous tinge is more extended, the amount of the olive 

 is proportionately contracted. The sides of the neck below the 

 silvery striated face patch, the back of the neck and upper back 

 are olive, sometimes greener, sometimes yellower, and sometimes 

 again browner or greyer ; the rest of the back, scapulars, rump 

 and upper tail-coverts are usually the same color, but darker in 

 shade and less pure in tint. The primary greater coverts are velvet 

 black, forming a conspicuous patch on the wing ; the earlier 

 secondary greater coverts are red, varying from bright ferruginous 

 chestnut to an almost orange ferruginous • the rest of the coverts 

 are olive ; the quills are hair brown • their outer webs and the 



