. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . il is long and slightlygraduated. The tarsus is very short and stout, shorter than themiddle toe and claw and is coarsely scutellated. HYPOCOLIUS. 357 (378) Hypocolius ampelinus. The G-rey Hypocolius. Hypocolius ampelinus Bouap., Consp. Av., i, p. 33G (1850) () ; Blanf. & Gates, i, p, 250. Vernacular names. None recorded. Description.—Male. From the lores, through the eye wideningto a broad band on the nape black; forehead, crown, chin, cheeks,throat, the middle of the abdomen, vent, thighs and under tail-coverts pinkish crea
. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . il is long and slightlygraduated. The tarsus is very short and stout, shorter than themiddle toe and claw and is coarsely scutellated. HYPOCOLIUS. 357 (378) Hypocolius ampelinus. The G-rey Hypocolius. Hypocolius ampelinus Bouap., Consp. Av., i, p. 33G (1850) () ; Blanf. & Gates, i, p, 250. Vernacular names. None recorded. Description.—Male. From the lores, through the eye wideningto a broad band on the nape black; forehead, crown, chin, cheeks,throat, the middle of the abdomen, vent, thighs and under tail-coverts pinkish cream-colour; remainder of the body plumage,wing-coverts and inner secondaries drab-grey; winglet andprimary-coverts blackish, shaded with ashy and partially marginedwith grey ; primaries black, with broad white tips shaded withgrey on the first two or three ; outer secondaries black, broadlyedged and tipped with ashy, the black diminishing in amount onthe later quills and occupying only a poition of the inner web-tail tlrab-grey, broadly tipped Fig. 68.—Head of H, ampelinus. Colours of soft parts. Irides brown ; bill black in the breedingseason ; flesh-coloured with a black tip in non-breeding seasonand in the young ; legs, feet and claws flesh-colour. Measurements. Length about 250 mm.; wing 100 to 110 mm.;tail about 115 mm. ; tarsus about 23 mm.; culmen 15 to 16 mm. Female. The upper plumage and the whole wing greyish isabel-line, the quills shaded with brown interiorly and edged and tippedwith light grey ; the tail is merely brown towards the end andtipped paler; the lower plumage pinkish cream-colour, suffusedwith drab-grey across the breast; there is no black on head ornape. Nestling. A fortnight to three weeks old the first primary isalmost entirely sooty, all the others being graded with the same(^Cummiufj). Young male like the female but has the white wing-patch fromthe earliest stages of plumage. Immature female has the secondaries tipped with white. Distribut
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