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b. Ad. sk. Nepal. Gould Collection. 



c, d. Ad. ; Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 

 e, Juv. sk. 



f, ff. Ad.sk. Nepal (7/o(/(/so«). India Museum. 



h, i. Ad. sk. Darjiling {Eccles). Y. 1). Gndmau and O. Sal- 



vin, Esqrs. [P.]- 



k. Ad. sk. D.iriiling (Pearson). India Museum. 



I. Ad. sk. Parjiling-. E. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



m,7i. Ad.sk. Darjiling. Henry Seebohra,Esq. [P.]. 



o, p. d $ fid. sk. Sikhim. A. O. Hume, Esq. 



q. Ad. sk. Bootan (^Temherton). India Museum. 



6. Trochalopterum ruficapillum. 



Garrulax ruficapillns, Bh/th, J. A. S. Bemj. xx. p. 521 (18ol). 

 Trochalopteron ruiicapillum, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 44 (1863) ; Hume, 



Str. F. 1878, vol. ii. p. 385, 1879, p. 97. 

 Pterocyclus ruficapillus, Graij, Hand-l. B. i. p. 283, no. 4190 (1869). 



Adult male. General colour above ashy olive, the upper back 

 lunulated, •with ashy tips to the feathers, before which is a reddish 

 brown bar ; the mantle reddish brown, broadly margined with paler 

 reddish; lesser wing-coverts olivaceous, washed with reddish ; median 

 and greater coverts deep chestnut-brown ; bastard-wing and primary- 

 coverts golden olive, the former brighter ; quills blackish, externally 

 golden olive, the inner secondaries golden olive, ashy for their ter- 

 minal third ; upper tail-coverts ashy olive ; tail-feathers olive, golden 

 on their outer webs ; foreheiid and vertex grey, more or less washed 

 with rufous ; nape bright chestnut, forming a patch ; lores and 

 feathers in front of the eye grey ; a broad superciliary baud of hoary 

 grey ; ear-co.verts deep vinous chestnut, hoary grey on the upper 

 part ; checks and throat deep chestnut-red, the fore part of the cheeks 

 washed with hoary grey ; fore neck a little lighter chestnut than the 

 throat and somewhat lunulatcd with lighter rufous margins to the 

 featliers with a sixbtcrminal bar of deeper rufous ; remainder of under 

 surface rufous, ashy olive on the lower flanks, thighs, and under 

 tail-coverts; axillaiies olivaceous buff ; under wing-coverts washed 

 with chestnut, with a spot of hoary grey on the edge of the wing ; 

 lower series of under wing-coverts dusky, as also the lower surface 

 of tlie quills, which are lighter brown along the inner web. Total 

 length 8-(i inches, culmcn 0-95, wing 3-95, tail 4-35, tarsus 1-6. 



Hub. Khasia and Naga hills. 



a. 5 ad. sk. Shillong (.4. JV. Chcnncll). Capt. E. G. Wardlaw 



Eamsay [P.]. 



7. Trochalopterum erythrolaeina. 

 Trochalopteron erythrolsema, Hume, Str. F. 1881, p. 154. 



Male. The lores blackish dusky ; the extreme tip of the chin 

 dusky ; rest of chin, entire throat, cheeks, car-coverts, upper neck 

 all round, forehead, crown, occiput, and upper part of nape deep 



