164 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



the adults of this species, measured : — Length, 10 '65 ; expanse, 

 1265 ; tail, 4"6 ; wing, 4-11 ; tarsus, 1*5 ; bill from gape, I'l ; 

 weight, 2'4ozs. 



The legs and feet varied from brownish fleshy to a wood- 

 brown ; the bill wood-brown, dusky or blackish at bases of 

 both mandibles ; irides grey to clay colour. 



More or less of the crown, the occiput, and more or less of 

 the nape, bright chestnut ; rest of erown and upper part of 

 forehead a dull brownish maroon ; the basal portion of 

 the forehead is a more or less distinctly dusky grey, and a 

 tinge of this grey extends more or less on to the upper fore- 

 head, and occasionally the anterior portion of the crown ; the 

 lores and the feathers at the base of the lower mandible 

 dusky brownish maroon to black, or nearly so, often a little 

 mingled with grey ; feathers over and behind the eye con- 

 tinued as a broad stripe to the nape, silvery grey, obsoletely 

 streaked with dusky ; ear-coverts a rather pale silky rufous 

 brown, a sort of compromise between the colour of the throat 

 and that of the eye-stripe, in some specimens approaching 

 nearer the one, in others the other, generally greyer towards 

 their bases and more ruddy towards the tips ; the chin is 

 dull grey or dusky, a little speckled greyish ; entire throat 

 and fore-neck uniform, dusky, deep, ferruginous ; inter- 

 scapulary region, sides of lower neck and entire breast rufes- 

 cent, varying very much in shade and tone, generally browner or 

 more fulvous above, more ruddy below ; all the feathers with 

 more or less perceptible subterminal brown spots, generally 

 large and conspicuous above, often nearly obsolete on the 

 breast ; middle of back a pale greenish olive grey, or better a 

 pale greyish olive green ; the feathers with traces of the 

 brown subterminal spots and fringed paler at the tips, and 

 often more or less brushed with the tinge of the interscapulary 

 region ; lower back, rump, upper tail-coverts, sides of body 

 and abdomen, flanks and lower tail-coverts a dull greyish olive 

 green, varying much in different specimens, now paler, greener, 

 purer, now browner, duskier or more earthy ; middle of ab- 

 domen more or less fulvous or rufous buff or pale dull ferru- 

 ginous ; tertiaries much the same colour as the lower back, 

 more or less overlaid with golden (it varies very much) ; 

 almost the whole visible portion of primaries and their 

 coverts, secondaries and tail-feathers golden or golden olive ; 

 inner webs of quills deep brown, at times almost black ; 

 more or less of inner webs of tail-feathers hair brown — ^and 

 this often shows through, even the gold wash of the central 

 feathers producing an olive tinge ; secondary greater coverts 



