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allen’s naturalist’s library. 
Rhyacophilus glareola, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 491 
(1896). 
Adult Male in Winter Plumage. — General colour above bronzj-- 
brown, with light ashy-bronze margins to the feathers, which 
are slightly spotted with white on both edges ; scapulars like 
the back, but with somewhat larger white spots ; lower back 
and rump uniform brown, the feathers of the latter part edged 
with white ; upper tail-coverts pure white, the lateral ones with 
blackish shaft-streaks and irregular longitudinal markings ; 
lesser wing-coverts uniform brown ; the median and greater 
coverts spotted with white on both webs, and resembling the 
scapulars ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts and quills blackish- 
brown, fringed with white at the ends, the secondaries notched 
with white on both webs, with a barred appearance of blackish 
intermediary bands ; centre tail-feathers ashy-brown, barred 
with blackish-brown, and deeply notched with white ; the 
lateral feathers white, barred with blackish, these bars becoming 
irregular on the lateral feathers, and reduced to a few' freckles 
on the outermost ones ; crown of head and hind-neck almost 
uniform ashy-brown, slightly mottled with darker brown 
centres to the feathers ; lores dusky, surmounted by a dis- 
tinct white eyebrow; sides of face white, slightly streaked 
with dark brown ; the ear-coverts uniform dark brown along 
their upper edge ; cheeks and throat white ; sides of neck, 
lower throat, fore-neck, and chest, ash)', varied with shaft-lines 
of brown ; remainder of under surface of body pure w'hite ; 
sides of upper-breast ashy-brown ; lateral under tail-coverts 
with blackish shaft -streaks, and a few frecklings of black ; 
under wing-coverts white, mottled w'ith blackish bases to the 
feathers ; axillaries white, with a few irregular bars and 
freckles ; lower primary-coverts and quills below dusky-brown, 
with whitish spots on the edges of the inner secondaries ; 
basal half of bill olive-brown, terminal half black ; legs and 
feet pale greenish ; claws dark horn-colour ; iris brown. Total 
length, 8‘5 inches; culmen, i’i5 ; wing, 4‘6 ; tail, i'85; 
tarsus, I ‘4. 
Adult Female. — Similar to the male ; bill blackish, olive at 
base of low'er mandible ; feet olive ; iris very dark brow’n. 
Total length, 8 inches ; wing, 4-9. 
