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The back is uniform ricli brown (between bistre and vandyke brown); 

 lower throat, lores, and ear coverts gray (between drab and smoke 

 gray); middle of breast pale buff, passing- laterally into deep wood 

 brown, this color mucli deeper on flanks ; median line of abdomen white; 

 sides of abdomen and thighs drab gray; throat and chin white, mingled 

 with black down. All of these color patches are sharply defined, and 

 narrowly separated from each other by lines of the black down which 

 had evidently a short time previously covered the bird. Tarsus, 1.52 

 inches; culmen, 0.80. 



187. LIMNOB/ENUS FUSCUS, (Linnaeus). 



Female, adult. Vale of Ka.-<hmir, May 30, 1803. "Bill black above, 

 greeiush beneath; legs and feet vermilion, claws horny brown: irides 

 red; orbital skin red; length, 1\ inches." 



Family PODICIPID.E. 



188. COLYMBUS FLUVIATILIS, Tunstall. 



Male, adult. Vale of Kashmir, April 8, 1803. " Bill black, tip white; 

 bare skin at base of bill and gnlar patch pale green; outsides of feet 

 and soles black; inner sides of tarsi and tip of toes greenish slate; 

 irides brownish green; length, 10 inches." 



Female, adulr. Vale of Kashmir, June 2, 1803. *' Feet greenish slate; 

 bill black; skin at base of lower mandible pale yellowish green; irides 

 vellowish brown." 



