1-1. lAN'rnociJfn.A. :585 



coverts a spot of crcamj' white, afljoining the sides of the neck, 

 which are ochraccous buff witli dusky hlack cross bars, enlivened 

 by a grey shade near tlie liiuder ear-coverts ; fore neck ochraccous 

 buff, with distinct black cross bars ; breast more asliy ochraceoiis, 

 with the black bars less distinct ; the flanks slightly more rufesceut, 

 with pale tips, before which is a narrow subterminal bar of black ; 

 abdomen, thiglis, and under tail-coverts pale fawn-colour, rather 

 deeper on the latter ; under wing-coverts and axillaries black with 

 white tills, the carpal edge of the wing white ; quills blackish below, 

 with broad white ends to the primaries ; " bill blackish brown, the 

 base of the lower mandible greenish grey ; feet whitish rufous ; iris 

 yellow '" (David). Total length 13-5 inches, culmen 1-25, wing 4-75, 

 tail 6, tarsus 1*9, (3Ihs. R. G. Wardlaw Ramsai/.) 



Adult female. Similar in colour to the male. Total length 

 13 inches, culmen 1-15, wing -l-G, tail 5-7, tarsus 1-85. 



Huh. Forests on the hills of Szechuen, and the frontiers of that 

 province and Kokonoor. 



a. $ ad. sk. Western Szechuen, Feb. 16, 1870. Abbe David [0.]. 



4. lanthocincla lunulata. 



lanthocincla lunulata, J. Vcrr. Nouv. Arch. Mits. vi. p. 3(), pi. 3. 



fig. 2 (1870) : id. op. eit. vii. Bull. p. 41 (1871) ; Gould, B. Asia, 



part XXV. (187o). 

 Cinclosoma lunulatum, David 8c Oust. Ois. Chitie, p. 195, pi, 53 (1877). 



Adult male ( Southern Shensi ; A. David). General colour above 

 light brown, the feathers tip])ed with ochraccous buff, before which 

 is a broad black bar ; on the rump and irpper tail-coverts these pale 

 tips are less marked and the black subterminal bars are narrower; 

 wing-coverts coloured like the back and marked in the same manner ; 

 bastard-wing plumes lavender-grey ; primary-coverts black, tipped 

 with white; ijuills blackish, tipped with white, the primaries exter- 

 nally lavender-grey, the secondaries light brown like the back, the 

 innermost secondaries tipped with white, with a subterminal black 

 bar ; centre tail-feathers olivaceous brown, with a narrow white 

 tip, before which is a black bar, the remainder of the feathers 

 lavender-grey, more or less washed with brown near the base, 

 broadly tipped with white, before which is a broad subterminal 

 liand of black ; crown of head and nape uniform mouse-brown, as 

 also the feathers concealing the nostrils ; lores white, extending 

 under the eye, and also forming an indistinct eyebrow mixed with 

 mouse-brown ; feathers round the eye mouse-brown ; cheeks, car- 

 coverts, thi'oat, and fore neck mouse-brown, and the feathers varied 

 with white at the tip ; sides of neck ashy, with Avhite tips to the 

 feathers ; breast ashy, the feathers tipped with white ; abdomen 

 uniform white ; sides of body pale rufescent brown or fawn-colour, 

 with a few black cross bars ; thighs and under tail-coverts fawn- 

 colour, the latter si)arsely barred with black ; axillaries and under 

 wing-coverts light fawn-brown, the lower series ashy, black at the 

 tips ; under surfice of (piills ashy, dusky toward the tips, Avhich 



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