RECENTLY-DESCRIBED SPECIES. 399 



breast and flanks white ; feathers very narrowly barred or mar- 

 gined rufous-brown ; abdomen and under tail-coverts dull white, 

 the latter sparingly streaked with brown ; feathers of the back 

 finely pale-shafted.'" 



Bill dark grey ; feet plumbeous ; irides red. 



Length, 4*3; wing, 2*10; tail, 1*70; tarsus, 0'55 ; bill at 

 front, 0-45. 



The female is a duller brown above, with no white shafts to the 

 feathers, a distinct green tinge upon the tail feathers, otherwise 

 as in M. undulata. 



Change of coloration in young males commences on the 

 centre of the throat, extending towards the base of bill into the 

 dark chesnut, and towards the breast into the undulated 

 colouring of those parts. 



Obtained in the Munipur Valley, both on the Logtak Lake 

 and head of the Barak river. It is very close to, but distinct 

 from, M. undulata, Latham, in which the undulations are broad, 

 the general coloration is more rufous, and the tail more pointed. 

 It is also close and intermediate to M. nisoria from Java and 

 Malacca ; but in that bird the tail-coverts are grey, with no 

 trace of the fulvescent tinge common to the two continental 

 forms. Lord Walden was the first to notice it as distinct, in 

 specimens in his collection received from Burmah, which are 

 identical with my own from Munipur, and he kindly allowed 

 me to describe it. 



Bambusicola Hopkinsoni, Godwin- Austen. 



Male. Description. — Above head plain dull brown, becoming 

 rufous on back of neck ; back dull olivaceous grey ; the feathers 

 of upper back and scapulars centred with dark chesnut : the 

 secondary coverts more broadly so and terminated in black ; 

 the feathers of the back have one or more small white spots 

 on the outer margin, giving the back a well-speckled appear- 

 ance ; the rump feathers are indistinctly barred white with a 

 single black spot and increase in size to the upper tail-coverts 

 where the spots are conspicuous, heart-shaped with chesnut 

 centres ; quills ruddy chesnut ; the secondaries and tertiaries 

 mottled with dark brown ; tail ruddy-brown, feathers narrowly 

 barred with pale ochre, having dark mottled edgings ; lores 

 pale buff extending as a supercilium; ear-coverts, chin, and 

 upper throat pale ferruginous ; a black streak extends from 

 posterior margin of the eye down side of neck ; from lower 

 part of neck for a short distance the feathers are centred rufous, 

 with pale spots on outer margin ; rest of breast buff, lighter on 

 abdomen and sides ; barred on centre of breast and flanks with 

 black, the barring not shewn, but each feather has a terminal 

 black heart-shaped spot, which is a conspicuous character. 



3 c 



