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tail coverts tipped white. Neck and breast dark rufous brown 

 with palish tips. Abdomen, lower wing and tail coverts 

 rufescent and spotted with small round white spots, (a blackish 

 ring round some of the white spots). Wings and tail barred 

 broadly with black and cream colour. Tip of tail feathers 

 whitish. Thighs rufescent and spotted with white ocelli. 

 Length 1 foot, 10 inches. Wing 1 foot, 2 inches. 



Very common in the Northern parts of the Island. Earely 

 seen on the Kandyan Hills. There is a lighter coloured 

 allied species found at Trincomalie which Mr. Blyth has named 



ILematornis Spilogaster, Blyth 

 In this species the tips of all the feathers of the head and 

 neck are more broadly tipped with fulvescent white. The 

 breast and abdomen of a lighter rufous colour, and more 

 thickly spotted with white. Mr. Blyth in describing this 

 new species, which I considered only a local variety of C. 

 Cheela, observes, that (e it is rather smaller than H. Cheela, 

 (Latham, vel undulatus, Vigors) and remarkable for having the 

 under parts as in the adult of that species, while the upper 

 parts, throat and tail retain in the adult the same colouring 

 as that of the young of II. Cheela, a phase of plumage which 

 we have never seen among the multitude of Bengal specimens 

 of II Cheela examined, but which is exhibited in the two now 

 received from different parts of Ceylon." Irides yellow. 



There is another specimen in my possession which cannot 

 be referred to either II. Cheela or H % Spilogaster, and which 

 I shall now describe. 



CiRCAETUS, (?) Sp. ; probably new. 

 Upper parts like H. Spilogaster. Breast with broad dark 

 rufous brown drops, and rufous mesial lines on the outer ab- 

 dominal feathers. Ventral, lower tail coverts and thigh fea- 

 thers barred with rufous. Lower wing coverts brown, and 

 ocellated with white* Tail and wing quills as in //. Cheela. 



