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the head, sides of the neck, and sides of the body under the wings, 

 blackish cyaneous ; the lores and feathers at the base of the lower 

 mandible, and the eyelid-feathers immediately above aud below the 

 eye, and sometimes more or less of the ear-coverts black ; chin, 

 throat, breast, abdomen, and lower tail-coverts intense orange fei-ru- 

 ginous, a little paler on the chin aud throat, and again often deci- 

 dedly paler in the middle of the abdomeu, in some specimens 

 becoming almost creamy. There is a short, broad, more or less 

 concealed silky white supercilium, beginning over the middle of 

 the lores, aud reaching a little further back than the middle of the 

 63^6. In many specimens no trace of this is to be discovered until 

 the feathers of the forehead and anterior part of the crown are 

 lifted. Length 5 inches, wing 2-5, tail 2, bill from forehead to 

 point 0-6, tarsus 1-3. {Hume, I. c.) 



Female. Above dusky olive-brown ; lores tinged with ferru- 

 ginous ; beneath ferruginous ; middle of the belly white ; bill cor- 

 neous ; legs fleshy ; iris brown. Length nearly 5 inches, wing '2k, 

 tail 1|, bill at front jL, tarsus 1^. (Jerdon.) 



Hah. Eastern Himalayas. 



6. Brachypterjrx nipalensis. 



Brachypteryx nipalensis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 74; Horsf. 8f 

 Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 397 (1854) ; Jerd. Sr Blyth, 

 P. Z. 8. 1861, p. 201 ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 494 (1862) ; Gray, Hand-l. 

 B. i. p. 312, no. 4663 (1869) ; Godwin-Amten, J. A.'S. Beng. 

 xxxix. p. 192 (1870) ; Blanf. J. A. S. Bern/, xli. p. 160 (1872") ; 

 Hume ^ Davison, Str. F. 1878, i. p. 236 ;" Hume, 8tr. F. 1879, 

 p. 93 ; Oates, B. Brit. Burm. p. 19 (1883). 



Male. General colour above dull slaty blue ; rump with a half- 

 concealed greyish-white band ; lesser and median wing-coverts like 

 the back ; greater coverts, bastard Aving, primary-coverts, and 

 quills dusky brown, externally margined with dull slaty blue ; the 

 primaries greyish blue externally ; upper tail-coverts like the back ; 

 tail-feathers dusky, washed with dull slaty blue externally ; lores 

 and base of forehead blackish, as also the feathers round the eye ; 

 over the latter a distinct streak of silvery white ; ear-coverts dusky 

 slaty blue ; cheeks ashy ; sides of neck like back ; throat white ; 

 fore neck ashy grey ; breast and abdomen white ; sides of body, 

 flanks, and thighs ashy grey ; under taU-coverts white; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries ashy grey, edged with white ; quills below 

 pale brown, inner edge of quills ashy. Total length 3*8 inches, 

 culmen 0-6, wing 2-5, tail 1-5, tarsus 1-05. 



Female. General colour above fulvescent olive-brown ; lesser and 

 median wing-coverts like the back ; greater coverts brown, externally 

 margined with rusty ; primary-coverts dusky brown ; quills dusky 

 brown, externally edged with rusty brown ; upper tail-coverts and 

 tail-feathers dusky, externally reddish brown ; lores fulvous browu, 

 mottled with whitish bases ; feathers round the eye fulvous brown ; 



