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head and the whole of the lower parts Tolack and both species 

 acquire ornamental plumage either on the head or neck. St/pheotis' 

 hemjalensis is crested and has long, full feathers all down the neck 

 to the breast, whilst Sypheotis aurita has the feathers of the side of 

 the head and chin somewhat lanceolate and lengthened, and a 

 curious tuft of long feathers from each side of the head below the 

 ear coverts, the longest of which have the stems narrowly webbed 

 and the ends spatulate. 



Sharpe divides 8yplieoti$ into two genera^ creating a new genus- 

 Houharopsis for the larger bird and retaining 8'yplieotis for the 

 Bmaller. The fact of the latter having a seasonal change of plum- 

 age and the former not having one would add considerable strength 

 to the reasons for dividing them, but for the puTpose' of this work I 

 retain them in the one genus. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



Wing 7" to 10"; tarsus 3-35" to 4'5"- ... 8.. aurita. 

 Wing 13" to 15"; tarsiis 5" tO' 6*2" ... 8. hemjalensis.. 



Sypheotis aurita. 



The Lesser Floriaan or Lihh.. 



? Otis indica. — Gm. Syst. Nat. i, p, 725 ;. Lath. Ind. Orn. ii,. 

 p. 661 ; Gates. Cat. Eggs B. M. ii, p. 87 f Sharpe Hand-1. i^ 

 p. 175. 



Otis aurita. — Lath. Ind. Orn, ii, p, 660.. 



Otis niarmorata. — Gray and Hardw, 111, In.. Orn.. 1,. pi. 60, 



8ypheotides aurita. — Less. Rev. ZooL^ 1839,. p, 47; Blyth, Cat.. 

 B. Mus. As. Soc, p. 259 ; Jerdon, B. of Ind. iii,. p. 619 ; King, 

 J. A. S. B. xxxvii, part 2, p, 216 ; MacMaster^ ihid, xl, part 2,. 

 p. 215 ; Stoliczka, ihid, xii, part 2, p, 250 ;. Gould, B. of Asia, vii, 

 pi. 57 ; Hume, Str. Feath. i, p. 136, 228; Adam, ihid, p. 393 ; id,, 

 ihid, ii, p. 339 ; Ball, ihid, p. 428 ; LeMess, ihid., iii, p. 379 ; 

 Blyth, B. of Burm., p. 152; Butler, Str. Feath. iv, p. 10; Fairb.,. 

 ihid, p. 262, 266; Butler, ihid, v, p. 231; Ball, ihid, p. 419;. 

 Hume and Marsh., Game B. i, p. 34 ; iii, p. 425 ; Hume, Cat. 

 No. 839; id, Str. Feath. viii, p. Ill > Maclnroy, ihid, p. 491; 

 Butler, Cat. Bird, of Sind, etc., p. 56 ; if^,. Cat, B. S. Bom. Pres... 



