THE GAME BIBDS 0I> INDIA, BVIiMA AND CEYLON. 661 



Description — Adult Male. — Crowu olive-brown, the tips of the feath- 

 ers darker, sometimes forming blackish spots, forehead more grey 

 and unspotted ; lores and broad supercilia greyish white streaked with 

 black ; sides of head the same, becoming rufous-brown on the posterior 

 ear-coverts ; a pure white streak from lower maudible to under ear- 

 coverts ; nape olive-brown with more or less rufous markings, especi- 

 ally at the sides, with bold black drops and with a few smaller ones of 

 white or rufous-white ; upper parts glossy olive-brown, the rump and 

 upper tail-coverts with black centre to the feathers, showing in vary- 

 ing degrees in different individuals ; scapulars and wing-coverts chest- 

 nut with a large grey and a smaller black drop on each feather ; pri- 

 maries riifous-browTi ; secondaries brown, mottled with rufous, this 

 colour increasing in extent inwards, the innermost secondaries being 

 like the scapulars, but with less grey. 



Below from chin to end of foreneck bright rufous with numerous 

 black spots on chin and throat, and with white bases to the feathers, 

 which generally show through a good deal ; below the rufous there 

 is a narrow but well-defined black band ; breast and flanks slaty grey, 

 paler on the abdomen, the flanks more or less marked with deep chest- 

 nut and with white central spots or streaks to most of the feathers ; 

 posterior flanks and vent pale rufous-brown, mottled with black and 

 white ; under tail-coverts rufous with broad black bars and white tips. 



Colours of Soft Parts. — " Bill black ; irides red-brown ; orbits dull 

 lake-red ; legs red," (Jerdon). 



" Tarsus salmon-red, claw« horny," (Stevens). 



The orbital skin and skin of throat is red or salmon-red, deeper and 

 brighter in the breeding season. 



Measurements.— Wing from 131 to 142 mm. , average 137 mm., 

 tarsus from 40 to 44 mm., bill at front 18 to 19 mm., and from gape 

 about 19 to 20 mm.; tail 50 to 56 mm. 



Hume gives the "length 10" to U'O inches, expanse 16 "0 to 

 17" 5 inches ; weight 7 to 10" 5 ozs." 



Adult Female. — Like the adiflt male, but often has fewer black 

 spots on the chin and throat, and more white drops on the breast and 

 abdomen. 



Colours of Soft Parts.— As in th€ male, but legs, orbital skin and skin 

 of throat a difller paler red. 



Measiirements. — There arc but few sexed females in the British 

 Museum series, but the wings of these run from 130 to 140 mm., the 

 average being 137 mm., the same as the male. In the other races tlie 

 females average a good deal smaller than the males, and a larger 

 series of properly sexed specimens would probably give the same 

 result with this bird. 



Young Male. — Throat immaculate rufous-bro\vn, much paler than 

 in the adult. Under-parts smoky slate with numerous white drops 

 all over breast, abdomen and flanks. 



