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The autumn plumage of the young birds differs a good deal from 

 both the above. The striations of the head and back are less defined 

 than in the mid-winter plumage, the pale portions being more 

 rufescent and darker-coloured ; and the lower sm-face is much tinged, 

 as a rule, with dull yellow, though, as in the specimens described as 

 S. parumstriata, this is wanting. {Hume, I. c.) 



Young female (type of Suya obscura, Hume). General colour 

 above brown, with dusky centres to the feathers of the head and 

 back, causing a mottled appearance, less distinct on the back ; rump 

 uniform brown ; lesser and median wing-coverts like the back ; 

 greater coverts, bastard wing, primary-coverts, and quills light brown, 

 with reddish-buff' margins to the feathers, more distinctly rufous on 

 the outer edge of the primaries ; upper tail-coverts darker brown ; 

 tail-feathers brown, with dusky cross bars imder certain lights, the 

 edges and tips paler and more fulvous-brown, the tips plainer on 

 all but the two centie tail-feathers and having a distinct subter- 

 minal spot of dusk)' brown ; lores dull whitish, obscured by blackish 

 tips ; no distinct ej'ebrow, but the superciliary feathers a little paler 

 than the crown ; eyelid whitish ; ear-coverts light brown, washed 

 with yellowish buff'; cheeks, throat, fore neck, and chest buffy 

 whitish ; breast and abdomen pure white ; sides of the breast washed 

 with olive-brown ; sides of the bodj', flanks, thighs, and under tail- 

 coverts clear fulvous-brown ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale 

 tawny buff, whiter near the edge of the wing ; quills below ashy 

 brown ; inner edge of quills pale tawny. Total length 5'9 inches, 

 culmen 0"45, wing 2*15, tail 2-8, tarsus 0"85. 



Nestling. Eeddish brown above, nearly uniform, the head only 

 streaked with darker brown ; ear-coverts, cheeks, and throat yellow- 

 ish white, tinged with fulvous on the abdomen ; sides of body and 

 flanks ruddy brown ; a faint eyebrow ; quills broadly edged with 

 rufous. 



The plumage of the full-grown young birds is very similar to the 

 nestling plumage, but the yellow tint disappears, leaving the under 

 surface whiter. Suya obscura of Hume is founded on a young bird 

 in first autumn plumage. 



The young in its first winter dress is verj^ distinctly striated above, 

 and is tinged strongly with grey above and with fulvous below. 



Blanfordiu-s siriatulus of Hume appears to me to be only a young 

 bird in its first winter dress ; and our specimen is not to be separated 

 from a Bootan skin collected b)' Pemberton. 



Hab. From Scinde, throughout the Himalayas from Cashmere to 

 Bootan, and thence through Yun-nan to South China and Formosa ; 

 Burmese countries. 



a. $ juv. hiem. sk. Kaud, Hubb vallev, Lower W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



Scinde, Feb. .5,"l877. [P.] (S. u. B.stnolatm.) 



b, c. Ad. sk. Cashmere (Br. Belleio). India Museum. 



d. 5 juv. sk. Dunna, Cashmere, August MajorJ.BiddulphrC.]. 



1874. (Type of Suya obscura.) 



e. Ad. ; /. Pull. sk. N. W. Himalayas. Capt. Stackhouse Pin- 



will [P.]. 

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