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3. Trochalopterum variegatum. 



Cinclosoma variejratum, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 56; Gould, Cent. 



Himal. B. pi. IG (1832). 

 Garnilax abeillii, Less., tesfn Gray. 



Crateropu3 variegatus, Bhjth, J. A. S. Beng. xi. p. 170 (1842). 

 Gairulax %-aviegatus, Blgth, J. A. S. Bcng. xii. p. 950 (1843), xiv. 



p. 5119 (1844); Gray, Cat. Mamm. etc. Xepal pres. Hodgs. p. 83 



(1840) ; Bbjfh, Cat. B. Mus. As. Sac. p. 97 (1849). 

 Pterocvclus variegatus, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 226 (1846) ; Bp. Consp. 



i. p. 372 (IBoOj ; Harsf. 4- Moore, Cat. B. B.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 207 



(1654) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 283, uo. 4181 (1869). 

 Tvoehaloptevon variegatuni, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 45 (1863) id. Ibis, 



1872, p. 305; Cock .S" Marsh. Str. F. 1873, p. 354; Hume, Nests 



^- Eqgs Ind. B. p. 260 (1873); id. Str. F. 1878, vol. ii. p. 457, 



1879, p. 97. 

 Trochalopteron simile, Hinne, Ibi-i, 1871, p. 408; id. Sj- Henderson, 



Lahore to Yark. p. 193, pi. vii. (1873); Hume, Str. F. 1875, 



p. 407, 1879, p. 97 ; Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 53. 



Adult. General colour above olive-brown, rather more ashy on 

 the hind neck ; wing-coverts like the back, the greater series orange- 

 rufous at the tips and on the outer webs of the external ones, 

 forming a wing-patch ; bastard-wing feathers and primary-coverts 

 black : quills dusky, externally olive-golden, the primaries ashy- 

 grey on the outer webs, the secondaries also ashy towards their ends, 

 with a black band across the centre of the feather on its outer 

 web ; the innermost secondaries blacki.sh, pale ashy grey externally, 

 shading off into white at the tip ; centre tail-feathers black, broadly 

 tipped with ashy grey with a narrow white ending ; the remainder 

 black, cxrernjill}' golden-olive, the inner webs ashy brown towards 

 the tips, which have a broad white ending, increasing in extent on 

 the outer feathers ; forehead fulvous ; crown of head and ear-coverts 

 ashy brown ; behind the eye a little white streak ; lores and 

 feathers above and below the eye black, extending a little way 

 onto the ear-coverts ; cheeks and sides of throat fulvous, separated 

 from the ear-coverts by an indistinct streak of whitish, on the 

 hinder part of which is a black spot ; the fulvous sides meeting on the 

 lower part of the throat , centre of the throat black : fore neck and 

 chest, as well as the sides of the breast and flanks, ashy olive-brown, 

 slightly Avashcd with fulvous ; centre of breast, abdomen, thighs, 

 rent, and under tail-coverts tawny buff, deepening on the latter ; 

 under wing-ooverts and axillaries tawny buff, the edge of the wing 

 rufous, the lower series dusky like the inner lining of the (]uills, 

 which arc ashy along the margin of the inner web ; " biU black ; 

 legs reddish ; iris brown '' (Jerdon). Total length 10*8 inches, 

 culmeu 1, wing 4-1, tail 4-9, tarsus 1-5. 



The sexes are alike in colour ; and a pair measure as follows : — 



. ', Cuhiien. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. 



ill. in. in. in. in. 



a. d. Cashmere (Biddtdph). . 100 OO 4-1 47 1-45 



b. $. Simla {Davison) 10-75 085 41 61 1-45 



