220 Contrihdions to the Ornithology of India, ^c. 



The lower part of the neck all round, the whole of the back, 

 scapulars, rump, upper tail coverts, and tail feathers, pale isa- 

 belline, closely and reg-ularly barred with black ; the barring's 

 being narrowest on the neck, and broadest on the tertiaries, and 

 these latter as well as many of the scapulars conspicuously 

 tipped with buffy yellow ; the tips of the tail feathers isabelline, 

 and the penultimate bars, especially in the lateral feathers, 

 much broader than the rest. The primaries, their greater co- 

 verts, and the winglet are hair brown, darker on the coverts and 

 'Winglet; the primaries everywhere very narrowly margined with 

 dull white, except towards the bases of the first three or four, 

 where the white margins are broader and more conspicuous; the 

 secondaries are French grey on the outer webs, for the basal por- 

 tion ; dark brown on the terminal portion ; the entire inner webs 

 somewhat pale brown; the secondary coverts and the lesser primary 

 coverts are mostly banded much like the back, but with a 

 g-reater admixture of pure white and buffy yellow, and the ear- 

 lier of the secondary greater coverts nearly entirely pure white 

 on their outer webs ; the breast is pale buffy yellow, intersected 

 by a broad, conspicuous, brownish maroon band, and bounded in- 

 feriorly by a black band ; below this the whole abdomen and flanks 

 are dull white, the feathers pale brown at their bases, each with 

 a conspicuous, somewhat crescentic blackish brown subterminal 

 band. The lower tail coverts, somewhat similarly barred, but 

 .each feather with mimerous bars, and the terminal one cunei- 

 form. The tarsal feathers, unspeckled buffy white. 



The female lacks alike the white frontal patch, and the black 

 and white encircling bars, the whole head being similar to the 

 hach head in the male. 



The chin, throat, neck, abdomen, lower tail coverts are all 

 very similar to those of the male, except first, that the female 

 has no unspotted central streak in the centre of the upper por- 

 tion of the throat, and second, that the barrings are narrower and 

 somewhat less conspicuous. She entirely wants the yellow 

 breast and the two breast bands ; her breast is a pale fulvous 

 white, very regularly barred with narrow, and somewhat wide- 

 ly-set, dark brown bars ; only, where the regular barring of the 

 breast ends, and just before the crescentic barring of the abdo- 

 men commences, there are traces of a broad, indistinct, scarce- 

 ly barred fulvous white band. The back and mantle, including 

 .scapulars and tertiaries, are a delicate isabelline yellow, very 

 •narrowly and closely barred, much more so than in the male, 

 with blackish brown, the bars not extending quite to the tips 

 or quite to the margins of the outer webs, of the exterior co- 

 ,¥erts and longer scapulars^ and most of the scapulars being 



