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scapulars, middle of the back, upper tail coverts, velvet black, a 

 few of the feathers of the interscapulary region in younger birds 

 only, and the longest scapulars, with an excessively narrow fulvous 

 margin at the tips ; median coverts, similar and similarly tipped ; 

 primaries, secondaries, and their greater coverts, dark hair-brown, 

 almost black ; those of the secondaries margined towards the tips 

 with fulvous white ; tail feathers, black. 



The white markings in the young have a browner and more 

 fulvous tinge ; in the old a brighter and a yellower tinge. 



The female differs, as already mentioned, in the smaller size 

 and in the conspicuously smaller bill, and also in having the 

 forehead and the entire crown fulvous or buffy white. 



165 quat. — Meiglyptes jugularis, Blyth. 



The plumage of this species recalls that of Hemicircus ; but 

 the peculiar spotting and barring of the throat and cheeks, and 

 the red moustachial streak in the male, together with the short, 

 broad, thick bill, and bowed culmen, leave me no doubt that it 

 should be classed as a Meiglyptes, and I am surprised at Mr. 

 Gray's assigning it to Hemicircus. 



Mr. Oates says : " I know nothing whatever of this bird, which is 

 decidedly rare ; but occurring, as it does, both on the Arracan and 

 Pegu Hills, it probably may also be met with on the intervening 

 plains. The following are the dimensions of males : — 



" Length, 7'5 to 7*9; expanse, 13; tail, from vent, 23 ; wing, 

 4; bill, from gape, 0*98; tarsus, 0'78. 



" The bill is black ; the inside of the mouth, dusky ; the iris, 

 dark brown ; the eyelids, dark j)lumbeous ; the legs, dull bluish ; 

 the claws, horny brown. " 



The forehead, chin, lores, and cheeks, are black, banded, or spot- 

 ted with buffy yellow — and in the male there is a short, dull-red 

 moustachial stripe from the base of the lower mandible. The 

 crown and occiput, which latter is garnished with a full broad 

 crest, the upper and middle back, the upper tail coverts, the 

 tail feathers, the breast, abdomen, vent, and lower tail coverts, 

 and the wings, except certain buff markings, to be described 

 further on, are a deep chocolate brown, almost black in freshly 

 moulted specimens : the wing lining, the sides and back of 

 the neck, and more or less of the sides of the body, the 

 rump, the edge of the wing at the carpal joint, the lesser 

 and median coverts along the ulna, one or two broad bands on 

 the tertiaries, and numerous spots on the outer webs of all the 

 secondaries and primaries, (except in some specimens, the first 

 two primaries), buffy yellow. All the quills exhibit large round 

 spots or imperfect bars, white, or yellowish white on the inner 

 webs, which vary much in number and in size, and many of 

 which, especially on the later secondaries, become confluent. In 



