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primary-covorts dark bro-wn, externally fulvous-brown ; quills dark 

 brown, externally fulvous-brown, a little more rufescent than the 

 back, the secondaries broadly edged with whity brown near their 

 tips ; tail-feathers light brown, waved with dusky under certain 

 lights, and edged with fulvous-brown, the outer feathers slightly 

 paler towards their tips ; lores whitish, the feathers above the eye 

 purer white, and forming an eyebrow which fades away above the 

 car-coverts ; eyelid and feathers below the eye dull white ; ear- 

 coverts light brown, the fore part buffy white ; cheeks dull white 

 on the fore part, shading into light brown on the hinder part ; 

 throat pure white ; remainder of under surface pale fulvous, deeper 

 on the flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts, the latter being 

 streaked with narrow blackish stripes down the centre of the 

 feathers ; sides of chest and sides of breast slightly shaded with 

 ashy, the lower throat and fore neck narrowly streaked with 

 blackish, a few stripes also perceptible on the flanks ; axillaries very 

 pale tawny buff; under wing-coverts creamy buff, mottled with 

 blackish centres to the feathers ; quills light brown below, ashy 

 fulvous along the inner web ; " biU black, the mandible leaden 

 grey ; legs horn-brown, the claws dark horn-brown ; iris orange- 

 brown " (^. j^i/ere^). Total length 9-5 inches, culmen 0-9, wing 

 3"8o, tail -Jr-So, tarsus 1-45. 



Adult female. Coloured like the male, but much smaller. Total 

 length 8 inches, culmen O'S, wing 3'15, tail 3'9, tarsus 1'3. 



Young. Distinguished from the adult by the yellow colour of the 

 under surface and lores ; the streaks on the throat absent, and only 

 slightly indicated on the sides of the chest ; flanks and under tail- 

 coverts uniform light rafescent brown. Above, the general colour 

 is rather more rufescent, and the dark streaks are not quite so 

 pronounced. 



Hah. Bengal and Central India, extending throughout the Bur- 

 mese counh'ies in suitable localities, and reappearing in Java and 

 the Philippine Islands. 



a, 6, c. Ad. sk. N.W.India. Capt.StaekhousePinwill[P.]. 



d. (S ad. sk. N.W. India. Capt.StackhousePinwiU[P.J. 



e. 2 ad. sk. Dilkoosha, Cachar, Jan. J. Inglis, Esq. [C.]. 



29, 1879. 



/. Ad. sk. Ava. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 



g. Ad. sk. Bhamau,UpperBurmah, Dr. J. Anderson [C.]. 



Jan. 28, 1868. 



h. <S ad. sk. Tsitkau, Upper Burmah, Dr. J. Anderson [C.]. 



Feb. 6, 1875. 



i. 2 ad. sk. Mvitkvo, Sittang river, Eugene W. Gates, Esq. [C.]. 



March 21, 1^74. 



k. d ad. ; /. $ Pegu, Nov. 1880. Eugene W. Gates, Esq. [C.]. 



juv. sk. 



m,n.(S $ad. sk. Java (Leiden Museum). F. D. Godman and O. Salvin, 



Esqrs. [P.]. 



o. Juv. sk. Java. Purchased. 



^, g". Ad.; r. Juv. Jaya (Sors/teld). India Museum. (Types of 



sk. species.) 



8. Ad. sk. Philippine Islands. Hugh Cuming, Esq. [C.]. 



