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Adult. Above particoloured ; entire head and nape bright chest- 

 nut ; hind neck mottled, the feathers black, edged with olive or 

 ashv grey on the sides of the neck ; mantle and upper back olive- 

 brown ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts ashy olive ; 

 wing-coverts like the back but washed with rufous, the greater 

 series chestnut, the innermost of the latter olive-brown washed with 

 rufous ; bastard-wing feathers ashy grey, externally olive-yellow ; 

 primarj--coverts olive-yellow ; quills dusky brown, externally 

 golden olive, the secondaries duller olive on the inner secondaries, 

 most of which are reddish near the base of the inner web ; all the 

 quills ashy grey at their ends ; tail-feathers dull ashy, externally 

 golden olive, brighter towards the base of the feathers ; lores 

 black ; sides of c^o^^-n streaked with black, as also some of the 

 feathers of the sinciput ; above the ear-coverts a slight ashy shade ; 

 ear-coverts black, varied with silvery -grey edges to the feathers, 

 with a slight rufous tinge, especially near the eye, all the bases to 

 the feathers being rufous ; cheeks and throat black ; remainder of 

 under surface of body fulvous, washed with ashy on the fore neck, 

 breast, and flanks, as well as the thighs and under tail-coverts ; the 

 fore neck and breast mottled with semilunar spots and subterminal 

 bars of black ; under wing-coverts and axillaries fulvous brown ; 

 lower series duskj', like the quills below, which are ashy fulvous 

 along the inner web ; "bill horny black ; feet brown fleshy ; claws 

 brownish grey horny ; iris greyish brown " (Scidli/). Total length 

 9-S inches, culmen O'O, wing -i'lo, tail 4-8, tarsus 1'5. 



Specimens from the north-western Himalayas are rather paler in 

 plumage and have the ear-coverts lighter rufous. Young birds are 

 more fluffy in plumage than the adults, have the head dull chestnut, 

 the hind neck dusky brown without any black semilunar markings; 

 the centre of the back fulvous brown ; lower back and rump earthy 

 brown ; the golden olive of the wing is less pronounced, and the 

 inner secondaries entirely ashy grey ; ear-coverts blackish with 

 silvery-grey edges ; throat blackish ; remainder of under surface 

 rufescent brown, without any black bars on the breast. 



Hah. X.W. Himalayas to Nepal. 



a, b, c, d. Ad. sk. N.W. Himalayas. Capt. Stackhouse 



Pinwill [P.]. 

 e. 2 ad. sk. Lushta, Kotegm-h, Nov. A. O. Hume, Esq. 



1870. 

 /. Ad. sk. Kumaon (^Strachey). India Museum. 



g. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 (Type of T. erythrocephalum.) 

 h, i, k. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 /, m, n. Juv. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 0. Ad. sk. Nepal {Hodgson). India Museum. 



