R O W. 399 



la Breve, Buf.eif.m.. p. 413. N'z. jy. 



Madras Jay, Rati Syn. p. 195. N° 12. t. I. N" lOi Var. B, 



Bengal Quail, Albin. vol. i. pi. 31. 

 Short-tailed Pye, Ed<w. pi. 324. 



CrZE of the others. The bill is brownifh flefh-colour : the head Descriptiv. 



is not black, as in the laft, but only three bands of that co<- 

 lourj one of which begins at the bafe of the upper mandible,, 

 palfing over the crown of the head, and down the neck, quite to 

 the back; and one on each fide of the head,,beginning at the cor- 

 ner of the mouth, and paffing under the eye, down the fides of the 

 neck, to the back : above the eye is a ftripe of orange brown ; 

 through the eye a white line, and another of white under the 

 black line on the fides of the neck; fo that the fucceffion of co- 

 lours on each fide, beginning from the black at the top, is 

 orange brown, white, black, and again white : the back and wing 

 coverts are green : tail coverts and leffer wing coverts blue- 

 green : quills and tail black ; the firfb white in the middle, tipped- 

 with yellowifh; the fecond with green : all beneath, from the 

 throat to the tail> is buff-colour; reddifh near the vejat:. legs* 

 reddilh yellow. . 



Inhabits Qjlm y 'm the Eaji Indies*. BiAoxi. 



Breve de Madagascar, Buf. oif. iii. p. 414. N ^* 37. 



Merle des Moluques, PL ml. 257,. Var, G, 



^ipHE head of this variety is ftill different from the others. The Description, 

 Sop is blackifl» brown,, with a. little yellow on the back part 



and.; 



