. Birds. Birds. GALLOPEBDIX. 107 _Ghot\ jangli Marghi, H. Central Prov., Belgaum, &c.; Chakotri, Kokatri, Mahr. (Syhadri Range); Kustuor, Mahr. (Decoan): Sarrana Koli, Tarn.; Yerra-Kodi, Jitta-Kudi, Tel. Coloration. Male. Crown dark brown, paler and greyer on the forehead and sides of head and all round the neck ; chin whitish ; feathers of the upper back and sometimes of the whole back and rump light chestnut with grey edges, but generally all the upper parts except the upper back are closely vermicula'ted with black and rufous buff, varying occasionally to pale buff and even whitish in p
. Birds. Birds. GALLOPEBDIX. 107 _Ghot\ jangli Marghi, H. Central Prov., Belgaum, &c.; Chakotri, Kokatri, Mahr. (Syhadri Range); Kustuor, Mahr. (Decoan): Sarrana Koli, Tarn.; Yerra-Kodi, Jitta-Kudi, Tel. Coloration. Male. Crown dark brown, paler and greyer on the forehead and sides of head and all round the neck ; chin whitish ; feathers of the upper back and sometimes of the whole back and rump light chestnut with grey edges, but generally all the upper parts except the upper back are closely vermicula'ted with black and rufous buff, varying occasionally to pale buff and even whitish in parts; middle tail-feathers and outer margins of the next two. -^ s Fig. 21.—Head of G. spadicea, S. t- or three pairs and of the secondary quills the same ; quills dark brown ; tail-feathers blackish brown ; breast and upper abdomen like the upper back; lower abdomen and thighs brown; under tail-coverts rufous brown, vermiculated like the lower back. There is frequently a patch of feathers in the middle of the breast with greyish-brown centres. The female differs in having the feathers of the upper parts black, edged and rather irregularly barred with buff, the buff some- times predominating; the feathers of the fore neck are black with buff tips; the rest of the lower parts as in the male, but with broken and irregular black tips on the breast. The race from Abu and the neighbourhood is much paler, there is less verm'iculation on the upper parts of the male, and the female has no distinct black bars on the feathers of the back, wing-coverts, &c.; these are all rufous or even greyish buff, with black vermicu- lation and broken iutramarginal streaks to the feathers. Skins of females from Matheran and Mahableshwar, in the Hume Collection, though richly rufous, not pale and greyish like Abu specimens, have the same markings, whilst Belgaum and Goa skins are like those from the Nilgiris. It is evident that the Bombay Presidency bird is a well-marked and peculiar race, and mig
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