TAB. X XVII.
ENICURUS MACULATUS.

En. capite, collo, dorso superiort, pectore, ptilis, remigtbus secundarits, caudaque intense atris ;
frontis nota lata, maculis confertis nuche et sparsis dorsz, pteromatibus, dorso wo, abdomine,
rectricibus lateralibus, mediarumque apicibus albis ; remigibus primaris Juscis ; rostro nigro ;
pedibus albescentibus.
Statura En. specioso aequalis.

Longitudo corporis, 11 une.

Two species of this remarkable genus have already been described, and it is with much pleasure that we now
offer a third. The genus, we may observe, is exclusively confined to the Asiatic continent and the adjacent
islands. This typical example may be at once distinguished from its congeners by the white spots upon the
black ground of the back and mantle. In size it is rather less than the Enicurus speciosus of Dr. Horsfeld,
but the tail is considerably longer than in that bird. This elegant species has been received from the
Himalayan mountains in considerable abundance ; but we are not aware of its occurrence either in the low
lands or islands. In its wild and native condition it is pre-eminently distinguished by the grace and. vivacity of
its actions, tripping along the ground with great ease and agility, like our Common Wagtails, but even, if
possible, exceeding them in the elegance of its movements. Its food consists of insects. Of its nidification
no information has yet reached us.

The forehead is white; the head, neck and breast, jet black ; a band of thickly set white spots at the base
of the neck advances forwards in a semilunar form ; the back is black, thinly spotted with white ; the shoulders,
rump, abdomen, and two outer tail-feathers, are white ; the wings brownish black ; the inner tail-feathers are
black tipped with white ; the beak is black ; the tarsi flesh colour.

The Plate represents an adult, in full plumage, of the natural size.