304 Additional remarks on the Avifauna of, ^c. 



conspicuous pure white^ crescent along- the lower marg-in of tlie 

 63^6;, the point in front extending up beyond the g'ape ; the lores 

 where they abut on the upper mandible^ also pure white^ and 

 a streak of white from the upper portion of the white lore patch 

 to the upper point of the white crescent. The majority of specimens 

 show nothinjj^ of this except a small white patch under the eye. 

 Front and sides of the breast^ upper abdomen and sides^ each feather 

 broadly margined with a warm brownish fawn colour, and centred 

 hair l)rown. Lower abdomen^ flanks, vent, and lower tail coverts, 

 a dull dingy brown, more or less yellowish or fawny (except on the 

 lower tail coverts,) and exhibiting, though indistinctly except in the 

 case of these latter, darker centerings to the feathers. 



This is in the presumably adult males ; in the females and 

 young birds the lower surface is dxiller and sandier than above 

 described, and the centerings of the feathers are less marked and 

 produce more of a mottled appearance. 



The greater lower wing coverts are grey brown ; the axillaries 

 and the ends of the median secondary lower coverts, pure white, 

 and the rest of the lower coverts dark, almost blackish brown. 

 Tiie primaries and their greater coverts, the winglet, and all the 

 lesser and median coverts, a dark, hair brown, somewhat paler 

 and with ever so slight a greenish gloss. The anterior secondary 

 median coverts, and the ends of the posterior ones, a broad mar- 

 gin to the outer web of the first secondary and usually a narrow 

 margin to the second, and a broad tipping to all but about the last 

 three secondaries, white, more or less tinged with rufous buff, the 

 rest of the outer webs of the secondaries velvet black, with a 

 brilliant metallic green speculum on two or three of them from 

 the seventh to the ninth, smaller and more coppery in the fe- 

 males. Back and scapulars, a rich brown with a faint purplish 

 gloss, each feather narrowly margined with a pale rufescent ; ter- 

 tiaries, similar but paler, and wanting usually the paler margins. 

 In the males and young, the brown is duller and the purplish 

 tinge wanting. E,ump upper tail coverts, and tail nearly syn- 

 chromius with the back, but the first usually slightly darker 

 and devoid of any purplish glance, and the second usually 

 somewhat lighter than either the first or the third. 



All these birds were shot in December. 



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Since Mr. BalFs paper was printed off, a collection of some 

 400 specimens from the neighbourhood of Port Blair, has been 

 sent me up by my friend M r. Davison. 



