158 A FIRST LIST OF THE 



This bird is not included in Jerdon, and I must therefore de- 

 scribe it from a pair killed at Pahpoon on the 17th January. 



Male: Length, 625 ; expanse, 9; wing, 2*9; tail, from vent, 

 2*62 ; tarsus, 0*65 ; weight, 0"55 oz. 



The female is barely perceptibly smaller. 



The bill is brown, paler on the lower mandible; legs and 

 feet, fleshy. 



In the male the entire head and neck all round, back, rump, 

 lesser and median wing coverts and all but the very longest tail 

 coverts, bright chestnut ; most of the feathers of the throat, some 

 of those of the upper parts, narrowly and inconspicuously 

 fringed with a paler color ; the fringe is so narrow in this specimen 

 that it is impossible to say whether it was yellow or white. The 

 longest upper tail coverts are brown, tinged with chestnut. The 

 tail feathers are hair brown. The exterior tail feather on either 

 side has a streak about an inch long and \ inch broad, 

 white or greyish white, which commences at the tip, runs 

 down the margin a little way, and then turns down slantingly 

 towards the shaft, where it ceases. The next feather has a minute 

 greyish white spot at the tip. All the feathers have a barely per- 

 ceptible greenish olive tinge at the extreme margins of the outer 

 web. Winglet, quills, and primary greater coverts, hair brown ; 

 tertiaries, tinged chestnut on the outer web ; the rest, margined on 

 their outer webs with pale olivaceous yellow ; secondary greater 

 coverts, like the tertiaries, but more strongly suffused on the 

 outer webs with chestnut ; lower parts, breast to lower tail coverts, 

 pale clear yellow, streaked, dashed, and tinged on the sides and 

 flanks with olive green. 



The female has the lores, cheeks, ear coverts, chin, and throat, a 

 slightly fulvous white, with an obscure streak of dull brown 

 spots running down from the base of the lower mandible on 

 either side of the throat ; the breast and the rest of the lower 

 parts much as in the male, but slightly paler. The sides of the 

 neck behind the ear coverts, pale chestnut. The feathers, fringed 

 with greenish ashy ; and it is this color alone that is seen till 

 the feathers are lifted. A narrow dark brown inconspicuous 

 supercilium runs backwards from above the nostrils over the eye. 

 The forehead, crown, and occiput, chestnut ; most of the feathers, 

 with a blackish brown shaft spot towards the tip, and broadly 

 fringed with pale, dingy yellow or yellowish white. The mantle, 

 including the lesser and median coverts, the feathers mostly 

 brown, broadly fringed with pale yellowish olive, and here and 

 there tinged with chestnut. Rump, pale chestnut; the feathers, nar- 

 rowly fringed yellowish. Upper tail coverts and tail, hair brown; 

 the former fringed at the tips, the latter at the margins towards 

 their bases, with pale yellowish olive or dull greenish yellow. 

 The tertiaries and their own and the secondary greater coverts, 



