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under wing-coverts like the breast, the lower series dusky ; quills 

 dusky brown below, more ashy along the margin ; " bill black ; legs 

 shining fleshy brown ; iris red-brown " {Jerclon). Total length 

 8'S inches, culmeii 0-95, wing 3"9, tail 4, tarsus 1-5. 



Some of the specimens have grey lores and a slight greyish shade 

 on the upper ear-coverts, and there is a perceptible difference in the 

 rufous or olive shade of the underparts. Young birds differ from 

 the adult in being much more rufous, and are uniform above and 

 below, without any of the black edges to the feathers of the back or 

 underparts, the pattern of the wings and tail being the same as ia 

 the adult. 



Hab. Eastern Himalayas. 



a. Ad. sk. Himalayas. J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. (Type 



of species.) 



b, c. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



(Tvpes of T. melannriim.) 



d, e,f, ff. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



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



i. Juv. sk. Nepal. Gould Collection. 



k,l. cJ ad. sk. Darjiling. A. O. Hume, Esq. 



m, n. Ad. sk. Daijihng. H. Seebobm, Esq. 



0. Ad. sk, Bootan (Pemberton). India Museum. 



12. Trochalopteram subunicolor. 



Trochalopteron subunicolor, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xii. p. 952 (1843, 

 descr. ntdld) ; Hodgs. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus., Passeres, pi. 172 

 (no. 842) ; Gray, Cat. Mamni. etc. Nepal jjres. Jlodi/s. p. 84 (1846) ; 

 id. Gen. B. i. p. 226 (1846) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 372 (1850) ; Jerd. 

 B. Ind. ii. p. 44 (180.3) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 282, no. 4179 

 (1869) ; Jerd. Ibis, 1872, p. 306 ; Hume, Nests 8f Eggs Ind. B. 

 p. 259 (1873) ; id. Sir. F. 1879, p. 97. 



Garrulax subunicolor, Blyth, J. A. S. Benq. xiv. p. 599 (1845, descr, 

 p-inc); id. Cat. B. Mus. As. Sue. p. 96 (1849). 



Adult. General colour above olive-brown, mottled with blackish 

 margins to the feathers, before which is a subterminal bar of lighter 

 olive, these margins more narrow and less conspicuous on the lower 

 back, rump, and iipper tail-coverts ; sides of neck like the back, but 

 more decidedly mottled with a pale subterminal bar ; crown of head 

 dark ashy, with black edges to the feathers, the forehead tinged with 

 fulvous ; wing-coverts olive-brown, lighter on the bastard-wing 

 feathers ; primary-coverts blackish, externally olive-brown ; quills 

 dusky, externally golden-olive, the primaries ashy grey towards 

 their ends ; the secondaries externally olive-greenish, the innermost 

 tipped with ashy ; tail-feathers blackish, washed with golden olive 

 on the outer webs, the centre feathers shaded with olive for nearly 

 their entire length, the outer ones narrowly tipped with white ; 

 lores ashy grey, mottled with dusky margins to tlie feathers ; cheeks 

 and ear-coverts dusky brown, with pale shaft-lines ; under surface 

 of body light ochraceous buff, the feathers mottled with dusky bases 



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