OF THE TRAVANCORE HILLS. 319 
This specimen, like the female, was shot at Mynall in South 
Travancore at an elevation of about 2,000 feet above the sea 
level. It measured in the flesh :-— 
Length, 9; expanse, 15°5; wing, 4°75; tail, 4:5; tarsus, 
0°59; bill, width at gape, 1:4; from gape to tip, 1°4. 
The bill was pale brownish ; feet, ditto; claws, plumbeous ; 
irides, bright yellow. 
It is a remarkable fact that while the female has only two- 
thirds of the tarsus feathered, the male has the entire tarsus 
feathered. 
The entire chin, throat, breast, a pale very slightly rufescent 
fawn brown, darker towards the sides, most of the feathers, 
especially along the side and towards the lower part of the 
breast, excessively finely almost obsoletely vermicilated 
towards their tips with blackish brown, and a few of those on 
the lower part of the breast with distinct though minute black 
spots at the tips; a row of feathers across the base of the throat 
broadly tipped with white, the white preceded by a faint 
narrow blackish brown line. Abdomen and sides are ex- 
cessively pale fawn colour, but the feathers all broadly 
tipped with white, so that on the upper abdomen and sides, 
the fawn colour is completely hidden, the white mure or less 
freckled, but very finely, with blackish brown, and in some 
of the feathers immediately adjoining the breast bounded, by an 
irregular black line above. A conspicuous fulvous supercilium, 
all the feathers on the upper edge of which are tipped black ; 
lores, a duller and slightly more rufous tint as are the bases 
of the strong loreal bristles, the terminal two-thirds of which 
are blackish. 
The whole of the forehead, crown, and occiput, and sides 
of the head behind the eye, pale buff, much the same color as 
the supercilium, but so densely freckled over with black or 
blackish brown as to leave but little of the ground colour 
visible ; besides this all the feathers of the head have minute 
terminal buff spots preceded and almost surrounded on the 
upper side by tiny black specks; there is a distinct rufous 
tinge at the base of the occiput. 
The feathers of the nape are broadly banded at the tip with 
white, preceded and followed by narrow black lines; the 
interscapulary region is precisely similar to the head, but has 
the rufous tinge of the base of the occiput, and the black- 
spots want the terminal buff speck ; the rump again is similar, 
but entirely wants both buff and black spots, but a few of 
the former appear again on the upper tail coverts; the inner 
webs of the scapulars, and the inner scapulars generally, are 
similar to the interscapulary region, but the outer webs anda 
