380 A FIRST LIST OF THE BIRDS 
considerable portion of the outer scapulars are white, finely and 
sparsely vermicilated with brown; all the scapulars have con- 
spicuous velvet black spots at the tips, and some of the outer 
ones have a white speck again beyond this. 
The primaries are deep hair brown on the inner. webs, dull 
rather pale rufous on the outer webs, with narrow, regular, 
widely separated, sloping bars of the same colour as the inner 
web, and with here and there a pale patch on the interspaces. 
The secondaries are similar, but have the bars less defined, 
and the interspaces more freckled. 
The extreme tips of both primaries and secondaries are 
minutely specked with dull pale rufous. 
The tertiaries are very similar to the scapulars, but are 
suffused with a silvery grey tint. 
The coverts are rufescent brown, narrowly and irregular- 
ly barred with black; many of the secondary and tertiary 
greater coverts are tipped with white, in some cases preceded, 
in some almost entirely encircled by a black line. Two or 
three white spots half encircled by a black line occur on the 
lesser coverts. 
The tail is grey, tinged with slightly rufescent "brown on. the 
basal half, every where pencilled finely with blackish brown, 
but much more densely so in zones, so as to produce the effect 
of numerous transverse darker bars. The last three of these 
bars distinctly defined by an irregular wavy velvet black line. 
This specimen, I may add, is in the most perfect state of 
preservation possible. 
The nestling, but not of this pair, was obtained with the nest 
near Mynall on the 24th February. Mr. Bourdillon says :— 
“The nest was composed of vegetable down neatly and 
compactly, interwoven with pieces of dead leaves, fragments 
of bark, dry wood, and one or two pieces of lichen. In shape 
it was a circular pad or dise about 2°5 inches broad, and 1:25 
in depth, the upper surface being slightly hollowed out. The 
nest was placed about 16 feet from the ground in the fork of 
a sapling apparently without any attempt at concealment. At 
the foot of the tree I found the remains of an egg, these I 
send with the nest as I atleast have no doubt that they origin- 
ally enclosed the young frog mouth. You will see from these 
fragments that the egg was pure white, rather round, of thin 
texture, and with a smooth glossless surface.” 
Further particulars about the nidification of this species and 
Otothrie Hodgsoni, will be found in the outcoming revised 
edition of ‘“ Nests and Eggs.” 
The nestling barely fledged is a curious little rufous brown 
ball, with the characteristic bill of the species and with distinct 
