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axillaries and under wing-coverts yellowish buff with white 

 bases ; quills duskj' brown below, j-ellowish buff along the inner 

 web ; " bill dusky horny above, pale beneath ; legs reddish horny ; 

 irides orange-yellow in some, straw-yellow in others" {Jcrdon). 

 Total length 8-3 inches, culnien 0-S5, wing 3-85, tail 4-5, 

 tarsus 1-15. 



Young. More reddish brown than the adult, the outer aspect of 

 the wings and tail deeper golden buff ; head and hind neck bright 

 chestnut; car-corerts rufous; cheeks and under surface of body 

 yellowish buff, more reddish on the fore neck and chest; the white 

 shoulder-patch absent. 



Intermediate specimens are often met with, having the white 

 head intermingled with a few reddish feathers, the remains of 

 young plumage. 



Hub. Eastern Himalayas, extending into the hills of Arakan. 



a, b, c. Ad. ; d. Juv. Xepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



sk. 

 e. Ad. ; /, ff. Juv. Xepal (Hodgson). India Museum. 



.<k. 

 /i. ? imm. sk. Arakau hills, lat. 19= X. E. W. Gates, Esq. [C.]. 



2. Gampsorhynclius torquatus. 



Gampsorhynchus torquatus, Hume, Proc. A. S. Beng. 1874, p. 107 ; 



id. Str.~F. 1874, p. 440; Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1875, p. .3-52 ; 



Hu7}ie 4'- Davison, Str. F. 1878, vol. i. p. 258 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, 



p. 95. 

 Gampsorhynchus rufulus, Wuld. Ibis, 1875, p. 460 {nee Blyth). 



Adult. Similar to G. rufulus, but more fulvous in general appear- 

 ance, and having an orange shade round the neck forming an indi- 

 stinct collar ; but the most striking difference is in the white tips 

 and edgings to the tail-feathers, instead of the golden-buff colourino" 

 of these parts in G. rufuJus; the undcrparts are also much brighter 

 golden buff in colour, and there seems to be some slight mottling of 

 black spots on the sides of the fore neck ; " bill greyish horny or 

 fleshy white, with, in some cases, a dusky line on the culmen ; the 

 legs and feet greyish white, slaty white, or fleshy white, with a 

 blue tinge ; irides pale to bright golden " (TF. Davison). 



Ohx. Xone of the specimens in the Museum are quite adult, all of 

 them having a few remains of the immature plumage visible in the 

 white head. 



The pair shot by Capt. Bingham measure as follows : — 



, ', Culuien. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. 



in. in. in. in. in. 



a. (S ad. Meplav, Xov. 24. . . 



b. 2 ad. Meplay, Xov. 24. . 



The sexes are alike in plumage ; but the female is a trifle larger 

 than the male. 



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