. Birds. Birds. HBNICUEUS. 83 Key to the Speoies. a. Back spotted. a'. Spots on back lunate ; feathers on lower breast fringed with white H. maeulattts, p. 83. b'. Spots on back round; feathers on lower breast entirely black H. guttatm, p. 84. b. Back plain. c'. Ohm and throat black. a". Back slate-coloured H. schistaceus, p. 84. b". Back black H. immaculatus, p. 85. d'. Ohin, throat, and breast black H. leschenauUi, p. 86. 630. S^enicurus maculatus. 2'he Western Spotted Forhtail. Enicurus maculatus, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1830, p. 9; Gould, Cent. pi. xxvii; Blyth, Cat. p. 169; Horsf. ^ M.
. Birds. Birds. HBNICUEUS. 83 Key to the Speoies. a. Back spotted. a'. Spots on back lunate ; feathers on lower breast fringed with white H. maeulattts, p. 83. b'. Spots on back round; feathers on lower breast entirely black H. guttatm, p. 84. b. Back plain. c'. Ohm and throat black. a". Back slate-coloured H. schistaceus, p. 84. b". Back black H. immaculatus, p. 85. d'. Ohin, throat, and breast black H. leschenauUi, p. 86. 630. S^enicurus maculatus. 2'he Western Spotted Forhtail. Enicurus maculatus, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1830, p. 9; Gould, Cent. pi. xxvii; Blyth, Cat. p. 169; Horsf. ^ M. Cat. i, p. 346; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 212 ; Kim^, N. ^ E. p. 374. Henicurus maculatus, Vigors, Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 29; Stoliczka, J. A. 8. B. xxxvii, pt. ii, p. 47; Elwes, Ibis, 1872, p. 260; Hume ^- Hendei-s. Ldh. to Tark. p. 223; Hume, Cat. no. 584; Scully, S. F. viii, p. 310; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 317 ; Oates in Humeri N. 8f E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 57. The Spotted Fork-tail, Jerd.; Khanjan, Fig. 26.—Head of H. maculatus. Coloration. Porehead and anterior half of crown white; re- mainder of the head, the whole neck, breast, back, lesser and median wing-coverts, primary-coverts, and winglet black; the feathers oi the hind neck thickly marked with large round white spots, those of the back and scapulars with large ovate transverse bars; greater wing-coverts black, tipped white; the earlier pri- maries black; the other quills broadly white at base and also tipped white; rump, upper tail-coverts, abdomen, and under tail- coverts white; the lower part of the black of the breast fringed with white; the two outer pairs of tail-feathers white; the others black, broadly white at base and tipped white; under wing-coverts black; axillaries white. In many specimens the crown and nape are rufous-ashy, with black margins to the feathers. The young have the head, back, and lower parts down, to the breast rufous-ashy, the breast with whitish shaft-streaks. Bill black; iris dark b
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