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aud nasal plumes, as well as a ring round the eye, and the ear-coveits 

 hlack ; cheeks, throat, breast, and upper abdomen white, sliaded 

 M'ith pearly grey on the sides of the breast, the feathers being 

 tipped with chestnut like the flanks, which are bright chestnut ; 

 thighs rufous-brown : under tail-coverts rufous ; under wing-covcrts 

 and axillaries rufous-brown, the lower series dusky brown ; quills 

 dusky brown, ashy along the inner web ; " bill black ; gape yellow ; 

 legs and feet dark plumbeous ; iris deep wood-brown ; eyelids 

 greemah." {Davison); " inside of mouth flesh-coloured; iris pinkish 

 hazel ; eyelids purplish grey ; legs plumbeous ; claws pale horn- 

 colour" (Oates). Total length 10-5 inches, culmen 1-15, wing 5, 

 tail 4-6, tarsus I'T. 



The sexes are alike in plumage ; but one of the female skins has 

 some reddish spots on the white breast. 



a. c?. Lower Pegu (Oa^f js). 



b. $ . Lower Pegu {Gates). . 



Young. Like the adult, but the plumage more fluff'y aud duller, 

 witli the sides of the body and flanks dull brick-red, the white of 

 the breast occupying the abdomen also. 



Hah. Pegu and Tonasserim. 



a. Ad. sk. Tonghoo, Burmah. Gould Collection. 



h. (S ; c,d. 2 ad. Lower Pegu, December. E. W. Gates, Esq. [C.]. 



sk. 



e. J juv. sk. Lower Pegu, Oct. 28. E. W. Gates, Esq. [C.]. 



3. Garrulax diardi. 



Turdus diardi, Less. Traite (TOrn. p. 408 (18.31) ; Pitcher. Arch. 



Mus. vii. p. 376 (1855). 

 Garndax leucogaster, Wald. P.ZsS. 1866, p. 549; id. Ibis, 1867, 



p. 3S7 ; Hume, Str. F. 1880, p. 202. 

 Gairulax diardi, Grai/, Iland-I. B. i. p. i'81, no. 4151 (1869); Oates, 



B. Brit. Burnt, p. 34 (1883). 



Adult. General colour above bright chestnut from the hind neck 

 to the rump ; least wing-coverts like the back ; median and greater 

 coverts light brown, edged with rufous-brown; quills dark brown, 

 externally olivaceous brown margined with rufous-brown, the inner- 

 most secondaries entirely rufous-brown; upper tail-coverts olivaceous 

 blown : tail-feathers blackish brown, washed with olivaceous brown 

 near the base : forehead and crown pure white ; tlie hinder feathers 

 of the crest tipped with grey, resembling the nape and hind neck, 

 which are entirely grey, the latter slightly washed with rufous ; 

 nasal plumes, lores, feathers round the eye, and ear-coverts black ; 

 sides of neck grey ; cheeks, throat, and underparts white, the sides 

 of the breast slightly washed with ashy; the flanks rufous-brcwn, 

 the thighs olivaceous brown ; under tail-coverts light reddish brown, 



