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B. M., I., p. 38 (1901); Stuart Baker, Jour. B. N.H.S. XII., p. 492 (1899) (Cachar); 

 Inglis, ibid, XII,, p. 677 (1899) (Cachar); id., ibid, XVI., p. 73 (1904) (Behar) ' 

 Stuart, Baker, ibid, XVII., p. 972 (1907), (Khasia Hills) ; Osmaston, ibid' 

 XXII., p. 544 (1910) (Gorakpur) ; Stevens, ibid, XXIII., p. 724 (1915) (Upper 

 Assam). 



Otygornis gtilaris.—JeTd., B. of I. II.,p. 573(1863); Hume's N. and E. In. 

 Birds, p. 544 (1873); Ball, Str. Feath., Vll. p. 234 (1878) (N. Valley of Ganges); 

 Hume and Marsh., Game-B. II. p. 59 (1879) ; Hume, Str. Feath., IX., p. 258 

 (1880) (Cachar) ; id, ibid, XI., p. 305 (1888) ; Gates, ed. Hume's N. and E., 

 III., p. 437 (1890). 



VERNACULAR NAMES.—Kyah, Khyr, Kaijah, {Bengali) ; Koi, Koera, 

 Koi-sorai {Assamese) ; Bhil-titur, Jal-tetri {Cachar and Sylhet) ; Hoi Koli 

 (Plains Miri). 



Description— Adult Male and Female —Head from forehead to nape 

 brown ; lores and a narrow supercilium, widening to a broad patch 

 behind the eye buify-white ; whole of the rest of the upper parts 

 brown with bars of buffy-white edged with darker brown ; on the 

 longer upper tail-coverts and central tail feathers the bars become 

 vermiculatious ; on the whole of these parts the feathers are con- 

 spicuously white-shafted ; outer tail-feathers deep chestnut with buf? 

 tips and sub-tipped brownish ; wing-coverts, scapulars and inner 

 secondariesl ike the back ; primaries brown with chestnut on the inner 

 webs, increasing in extent on the inner and extending to the outer 

 webs on the innermost primaries ; the secondaries change gradually 

 from the colour of the primaries to that of the back. 



A dark streak behind the eye below the white superciliary patch, 

 cheeks whitish, changing to rusty chestnut on chin, throat and fore- 

 neck ; lower parts white to pale buff, each feather with black and 

 then brown margins, the black and brown lessening in extent from 

 breast to vent, and the white increasing in proportion ; vent and 

 centre of abdomen pale rufous and under tail-coverts a slightly 

 darker tint of the same. Axillaries white and brown, under wmg- 

 coverts chestnut, except the smallest, which are brown and white. 



The individual variation is not great, and consists almost entirely 

 in the extent to which the lower parts and head are suffused with 

 rufous. In a few birds this suffusion of rufous makes the whole bird 

 appear much more red below, but in many specimens there is no rutous 

 tinge at all except on the vent and under tail-coverts. 



Colours of the Soft Parts.— liides brown, crimson-brown to crimson ; 

 eyelids dull livid green or plumbeous green ; bill black, the tip lioriiy- 

 white ; legs and feet orange-yellow to dull red and redder in the male 

 as a rule than in the female, and, as usual, redder and briglitei in 

 both in the breeding season than in the rest of the year ; claA\s ana 

 spurs horny-brown. The female sometimes has a trace ot spurs as 

 well as the male. 



Measurements.— Length, about 15 inches, wing 162 to 186 mm 

 average of 30 specimens 172-4 mm. ; tarsus 60 to 65 mm., bill at tront 



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