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Hend., Lahore to Yarkand, p. 279; Hume, Str. Feath. vii, pp. 162, 

 425; id. Cat. No. 802; Hume and Marshal], Game B. i, p. 43 

 Sharpe, Yarkand Miss. Aves, p. 119; Ogilvie-Grant, Oat. B. M 

 xxii, p. 5 ; Blanford Avifauna Ind. iv, p. 63 ; Gates, Game-B 

 Ind. i. p. 18; Sharpe, Hand-C. i, p. 50; Gates, Cat. Eggs, B, M 

 i., p. 75; Ggilvie-Grant, Game B. I., p. 6; Ward, Jour. B. N. H 

 Soc. xvii, p. 944 ; Le Mess. Game-B., p. 53 ; Bailey, Jour 

 B. N. N. Soc. xxi, p. 179. 



Vernacular names. — Kuk, Kaling (^Ladali) Kaka lingma, Kakali, 

 (Tibet). 



Description — Adult male. — Head from forehead to nape white finely 

 barred with black, the forehead more streaked than barred and the 

 lores either immaculate or very finely streaked: angle of chin white 

 changing into dull orange yellow on chin, throat, fore neck and in a 

 narrow band on the nape. Hind neck white narrowly barred with 

 black, the ground colour changing into vinaceous buff", or buff* on 

 the upper back and the bars changing to vermiculations becoming 

 most minute on the upper back ; louver back, rump and upper tail 

 coverts greyish white vermiculated with narrow black bands which 

 are broadest and most definite on the rump ; the rump and upper 

 tail-coverts are often tinged with yellow, giving a sort of golden 

 sheen to these parts. Scapulars, wing coverts and innermost 

 secondaries buff", the greater secondary coverts, scapulars and second- 

 aries often tinged with refescent and somewhat contrasting with 

 the smaller coverts, the whole very finely vermiculated with brown 

 and the scapulars also marked with large blotches of black on the 

 inner web, these forming a narrow triangular patch on the back. 

 Primary coverts and piimaries black, the latter greyish towards the 

 end and with large greyish bufi" marks on the inner webs of all, 

 but the first foiir though obsolete on the fifth and sometimes 

 on the sixth, outer secondaries gradually changing from the colour 

 of the primaries to that of the inner secondaries. Axillaries black, 

 under wing coverts on shoulder vermiculated brown and white, re- 

 maining aspect under wing brown. Foreneck and upper breast 

 vinous grey or vinous white narrowly barred with dark brown or 

 blackish, the ground colour deepening towards the lower breast and 

 the bars becoming very narrow; lower breast vinous grey ; abdomen, 

 flanks and shorter under-tail coverts white, remaining under tail- 

 coverts chestnut, barred with black and tipped white ; these feather- 

 ed white with tiny brown vermiculations. Central tail feathers like 

 the rump and upper tail coverts but prolonged with long narrow 

 webbed filaments of dark grey; remaining tail feathers like the longer 

 undertail coverts. 



The general tint of the upper plumage depends principally on the 

 scapulars and the inner secondaries, the back and rump not difiering 

 much individuals. In some birds the first parts mentioned are quite 

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