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gape about 1-3" (33-0 mm.); spur from -33" (8-3 mm.) to -7" 

 (17-7 mm.), generally under the half inch (12-7 mm.). The 

 average length of wing is 8*5" (215"0 mm.). 



Young Males. — In otherwise fully adult plumage, have the wing 

 quills mottled brown and dull chestnut, but not barred like the 

 females. 



Adult Female. — Upper parts of the head reddish brown, the 

 feathers of the crown with more or less well-defined black centres ; 

 sides of the head, lores, ear coverts and chin dull fiilvous, sparsely spot- 

 ted posteriorly with black ; neck sandy brown above obsoletel}' barred 

 with blackish and more boldly so on the sides ; upper back and 

 scapulars the same, but with bold velvety black edges and bars and 

 white arrow-shaped mark in the centi-e of each feather ; lower back 

 rump and upper tail covei'ts mottled sandy-brown and black with in- 

 definite black centres to the feathers, more pronounced on the romp 

 where there are also some white marks, and on the upper tail 

 coverts. Central tail feathers like the tail coverts with ill-defined 

 mottled bars of dark brown ; outer tail feathers chestnut with black 

 bars and broad white tips. Below, the breast is pale sandy or 

 greyish brown with a few black spots; lower breast, flanks and 

 greater thigii coverts sandy rufous, barred with very pale grey ; thigh 

 coverts a darker sandy brown, and the vent and centre of the abdo- 

 men duller and paler than the flanks ; under tail coverts mottled 

 brown, white and sandy, the longest chestnut with black, bai-s and 

 broad white tips. Visible plumage cf the wings mottled grey, brown 

 and sandy rufous with bold markings of black, and with whitish edges 

 to the median and greater coverts, which form narrow and faint white 

 bars across the wing ; primaries brown, mottled with rufous and with 

 broad pale buff bars on the outer webs. 



Measurements. — The only female 1 have been able to measure has 

 a wing of 7-8" (198-1 mm.) ; tail 7-5" (190-5 mm.) , and tarsus of 

 2-4." (G0-9mm.) ; the bill at iront is about 1-0" (25-4. mm.), and 

 from the gape 1-2" (30-5 mm.). It should be noted that Godwin- 

 Austen gives the length of his specimen's wing in the flesh as 8'25'', 

 and the tail as 7-0" only. 



Colours of Soft Parts. — The only note I can find on this point is 

 in Godwin- Austen's description, in which he says : 

 " A nude red patch surrounding the eye." 



DistrUmtion. — Until very recently all that was known of this bird's 

 habitat was Hume's description in Stray Feathers, and Godwin- 

 Austen's in the Zoological Societj^'s Proceedings. 



The former recorded them as being found in the Kamhow district 

 of South Manipur, Eastern Looshai and North- West Independent 

 Burma, while the latter obtained specimens, as had Dr. Watts, in 

 North- Kast Manipur close to the Naga Hills. 



