DETAILED LIST OF BIRDS. 
173 
the fresh bird, the other measurements are from the skin.) 
Length, 20 inches ; wing, 14 ; first primary imperfect ; 
third 0 05 shorter than second ; fourth 0*8 shorter than 
second ; fifth 1*6 shorter than second. Tail from vent, 
7'5 ; outer tail feathers, 0*7 shorter than central ones. 
- Tarsus, 2*15 ; feathered for 1*3 inch ; middle toe to root of 
claw, 17; its claw, straight from root to point, 0*63. Inner 
toe, 1*2; its claw, 0*72 : outer toe, 129; its claw, 0*64 : 
hind toe, 0*87 ; its claw, 0 8. Bill at front, straight from 
edge of cere to point, 0*84 ; from gape, 1 '36; height at 
front at margin of cere, 0'5 ; breadth of cere on culmen, 0*2. 
Description. The cere and feet appear to have been, 
bright yellow, the claws black, the bill pale blue, darker 
towards the tip, and faintly tinged with yellowish at the 
junction with the cere at the gape, and at the base of the 
lower mandible. 
Plumage. Lores white, with a narrow dark streak running 
along the lower margin of the orbits ; forehead rufescent 
white, the feathers dark shafted, and the posterior ones 
blending with those of the crown and occiput, which are 
dark brown broadly margined with bright rufous. Imme- 
diately above the eye is an indistinct narrow whitish super- 
cilium, the feathers of which are dark- shafted. Beyond 
the eye this supercilium is continued as a broad, ill-defined, 
bright rufous band round the nape, the feathers of which 
are narrowly dark shafted. The feathers of the posterior 
halves of the sides, and also of the back of the neck, bright 
rufous and dark brown, the centres of the feathers being 
brown and the margins rufous. Upper back, scapulars, 
coverts, tertiaries, and secondaries, brown, dark on the 
interscapulary region and lesser coverts, paler and greyer 
elsewhere, and all broadly barred with bright rufous ; lower 
back and rump ashy, with broad bars of pale rufous ; upper 
tail-coverts similar but browner, and the pale rufous more 
or less replaced by fulvous white. Tail-feathers ashy 
brown, tipped whitish or rufous, and with ten or eleven 
mentioned, all measurements are from the fresh bird, made by Dr. Hen- 
derson, myself, or some of my correspondents, and all descriptions are 
from Indian and Yarkand killed specimens, either procured by Dr. Hen- 
derson or contained in my museum. 
