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yellow. This bird was killed at the end of the breeding- season. 

 In the cold-weather, the legs, orbital skin, and cere, are paler. 



The specimen sent by Mr. Oates was also a male ; and in re- 

 gard to this he has recorded the following particulars : " Length, 

 15*5, expanse, 36; tail, from vent, 6-3; wing, 11-1; bill, from 

 gape, 1*3; mid-toe and claw, 2*1 ; claw only, 073 ; cere, 045 ; 

 bill, along culmen, 09. Fourth quill the longest, third, 02 ; 

 second, 07; first 3*3; and fifth 045 shorter than fourth. 

 Eyelids, well-clothed with white down. This and the upper-shelf 

 yellow, with an orange tinge ; iris, yellow, rather pale ; bill and 

 cere, waxen orange; the tips of both mandibles, dark-brown, almost 

 black ; legs and feet, yellow ; claws, dark-brown. I only procured 

 one specimen, and that at Thayetmyo. It appears to be rare." 



Captain Feilden says : " This bird I only found in a long 

 line of paddy fields, extending many miles inland from Thayet- 

 myo, but much broken by patches of jungle, and dotted with 

 large trees standing singly, or two or three together, in the 

 middle of fields. It is an extremely wary bird; I only obtained 

 two quite accidentally. They are not very wild at first, but if 

 they have once been shot at, it appears hopeless ever to get 

 near them again." 



Captain Feilden says that this species breeds in March. For 

 further particulars, see my "Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds." 



The following is a description of this species, founded on these 

 two specimens: The whole head and neck all round are a pale 

 earthy or grey brown ; the feathers darker shafted ; the lores are 

 whitish, and the chin and throat more or less faintly streaked 

 with white ; the breast is nearly uniform in color with the neck, 

 but here and there with faint traces of obscure rufescent bars; all 

 the feathers darker shafted ; the sides and abdomen are some- 

 what more rufous, with white spots or obscure bars, and all the 

 feathers darker shafted ; the tibial plumes, vent and lower tail 

 coverts, and the whole under-surface •of the wings (except the 

 primaries beyond the notches on the inner webs), pure white ; 

 axillaries white, with numerous closely-set transverse bars of 

 mingled brown, and rufous. The quills, and primary greater 

 coverts, and winglet, a rich chestnut red, tipped, more or less 

 broadly, with brown, darkest on the primaries, with the outer webs 

 of the second to the fifth primary from about the emarginations 

 more or less silvered or frosted brown ; the greater portion of the 

 inner webs above the emarginations, pure white ; the red portions 

 of the inner webs with a few widely-distant, narrow, dark brown 

 transverse bars ; the outer webs with traces of similar bars. The 

 first four primaries conspicuously notched on the inner webs, 

 and the third, fourth, and fifth, somewhat emarginate on the 

 outer webs. Rump and upper tail coverts, a rich, more or less 

 brownish rufous; each feather, darker shafted; tail, bright chestnut, 



