. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 336 M USCICAPlDiK. white ; thighs brown ; axillariea brown, externally ochraceous; under wiiig-coverfcs whitish, with dusky bases to the feathers : " bill and feet black; iris dark brown " (Jerdon). Total length 7 inches, cnlmen 0-45, wing 2-85, tail 3-85, tarsus Half of the tail of Ehipidura pccforalis (reduced). Hah. Southern India. «. Ad. sk. India. h. Ad. sk. Godavery Valley, near Duuia- W. T. Blauford, Esq. [P.]. giidium, April 10, 1871. 4G. Ehipidura layardi. Rliipidura albogularis, Layarcl, P. Z. S. 1875, pp. 29,434 {iiec
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 336 M USCICAPlDiK. white ; thighs brown ; axillariea brown, externally ochraceous; under wiiig-coverfcs whitish, with dusky bases to the feathers : " bill and feet black; iris dark brown " (Jerdon). Total length 7 inches, cnlmen 0-45, wing 2-85, tail 3-85, tarsus Half of the tail of Ehipidura pccforalis (reduced). Hah. Southern India. «. Ad. sk. India. h. Ad. sk. Godavery Valley, near Duuia- W. T. Blauford, Esq. [P.]. giidium, April 10, 1871. 4G. Ehipidura layardi. Rliipidura albogularis, Layarcl, P. Z. S. 1875, pp. 29,434 {iiec Less.) : Fmsch, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 20; uL Journ. M^ts. Godeffr. Heft xii. p. 9. Rliipidura albicoUis {mc V.), Layanl, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 493. Rhipidura layardi, Salvad. Ibis, 1877, p. 143. Adult male. General colour above smoky brown, the upper tail- coverts darker; head and neck more ashy brown, slightly varied with nearly obsolete darker markings on the tips of the feathers; sides of face also ashy brown, with a distinct streak of white from the base of the nostrils to above the eye; behind the eye an indistinct whitish streak running above the ear-coverts ; wing-coverts smoky brown, with a few tiny spots of white at the tips of some of the median and greater coverts, which are rather darker brown like the quills, the innermost secondaries washed with smoky brown like the back ; tail-feathers blackish brown, the four outer ones on each side tipped with white, increasing in extent towards the outermost, which is also externally white, the shafts of all blackish, excepting for the white tips on the outer feathers, which are accompanied by a white shaft; cheeks and throat dull whitisli, unspotted ; fore nock white, with broad black centres to the feathers, imparting a broadly streaked appearance to this part and the breast, which is, like the rest of under surface, ochraceous buff', broadly streaked with black, the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page im
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