1847.] Notes on the Ornithology of Candahar. 787 



tulate, of a glossy black colour, with connected webs ; the second and 

 larger series being still longer and wholly white, the feathers soft and 

 dense, straight, or rather a little curved inward, and very fine and flexi- 

 ble. Upper-parts pale buff, albescent upon the wing- coverts, and a 

 little so elsewhere ; somewhat deeper about the middle of the back, 

 and much deeper on the tail and its upper coverts, which nearly re- 

 semble in colour the upper-parts of O. tarda : all being delicately and 

 minutely pencilled with black, and having a subterminal mottled black 

 band, and one or more similar additional bands, (according to the size 

 of the feather), which in general are concealed by the feathers which 

 successively impend ; the upper tail-coverts have narrower and less mot- 

 tled black cross-bars, more or less ashy, and placed distantly apart ; 

 and the spread tail is beautifully marked with a series of ash-coloured 

 bands, appearing from contrast bluish, all but its middle feathers being 

 broadly tipped with cream-white. The lateral portions of the crown 

 are minutely mottled buff and black ; the cheeks are white, with black 

 shafts and tips to the feathers ; throat white ; upper part of front of 

 neck slightly ashy ; and the lower portion of the neck, with the breast, 

 are of an uniform delicate pale bluish ash-colour : rest of the lower 

 parts white, as is likewise the under surface of the wings, but the lower 

 tail-coverts are a little barred. The primaries are white at base, and 

 black for the terminal half or more, extending further upon the outer 

 web ; and from the termination of the black to that of the emarginated 

 portion of the wing, there is a slight tinge of buff: the shorter prima- 

 ries and secondaries are tipped with white, together with the great 

 range of wing-coverts ; the remainder of which, as also the winglet, are 

 black. Upon the small coverts of the wings, which are coloured uni- 

 formly with the back, but paler, a large black spot occurs, in place of 

 the subterminal band of the dorsal feathers, but for the most part re- 

 mains concealed when the plumage is adjusted : and the bars of the 

 interscapularies have likewise a confusedly macular appearance. The 

 bill is horn-coloured ; and the legs appear to have been yellowish- 

 green. 



Of the Indian H. Macqueenii, an indifferent figure occurs in Hard- 

 wicke's illustrations;' and it is also represented as the "Hurriana 

 Floriken" in the * Bengal Sporting Magazine' for September, 1833, 

 where the only description is given of it that I have seen. " Hurria- 



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