78 GAME BIRDS OF INDIA AND ASIA. 



hybrids between the Purple and the Lineated 

 Kaleege as Blanford thought. They certainly 

 are just what one might expect from such a cross. 



Oates's Kaleege. 



GenncBUS oatesi, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, Vol. 

 IV, p. 94. 



This is still more like the Purple Kaleege, not 

 -only resembling it in shape and size, but being 

 almost completely blue-black with white rump- 

 bars. But there is on the upper plumage a scanty 

 and broken pencilling, or rather peppering, of 

 white, giving it a frosted appearance ; and the 

 inner webs of the middle tail-feathers are nearly 

 white, as in the Lineated Kaleege. 



The hen is like that of the Purple Kaleege, but 

 has the black outer tail-feathers mottled with 

 black and chestnut, and the inner webs of the 

 centre tail-feathers pale buff or cream-colour. 



This seems to be the kaleege of the Arra- 

 kan Hills, two of Blyth's old specimens in the 

 Asiatic Society's collection deposited in the Indian 

 Museum agreeing with the above description. 

 The description which Blanford gives of G. cuvieri 

 in the place above cited, also agrees better in some 

 respects with this bird than with Temminck's. 

 But he considers this form also a hybrid, as did 

 Blyth, who identified it with Temminck's G. 

 •cuvieri. And two other specimens of Blyth's 

 from Arrakan are most obviously hybrids between 

 the Purple and Lineated Kaleeges. 



Many other pencilled kaleeges have been des- 

 cribed, but I have contented myself with noting 



