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fully adult. The tale of individuals was as follows, using Oates' 

 nomenclature : 



Family number one: 



1 . Adult male. On the whole, this bird resembled 

 horsfieldi, but it had the narrow rump fringe and 

 lengthened tail of hatemani, the intense blue, non- 

 vermiculated rump of mearsi, and in addition the 

 scarlet legs and feet of nisbetti. The central tail- 

 feathers were sparingly but strongly vermiculated 

 with white for most of their length, the terminal fifth 

 being clear black. 



2. Adult female. This bird which was constantly asso- 

 ciated with the above cock, (in fact I secured both 

 with one shot) was not distinguishable from females 

 of horsfieldi, except for the somewhat longer tail. Well- 

 grown as were the two young birds, more than once I 

 saw this female allow them to take food away from 

 her, and from this and other actions, besides the con- 

 stant association of the four birds before they joined 

 the others for the afternoon's descent to water, there 

 is not the slightest doubt in my mind that this was a 

 a single family of Kaleege. 



3. First-year male. Typical horsfieldi as found in Assam, 

 with tail of normal length, but with the basal vermic- 

 ulation on the inner rectrices visible for a half -inch 

 beyond the upper tail-coverts. 



4. First-year male. Between obscurus and davisoni, with 

 characters of each form. 



The two following birds I judged to be parent and young: 



5. Adult male. Superficially close to lineatus with some- 

 what coarser vermiculations, and with the outer webs 

 of the outer tail-feathers almost unmarked black as in 

 andersoni.... The central tail-feathers were vermicu- 

 lated throughout, with no hint of a pure white area. 

 There was no trace of a rump fringe. 



6. First-year female. This bird does not correspond to 

 the description of the females of any form. The gen- 



