23. GAERULAX. 



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broad subterminal baiid of black before the white tip, which is very 

 well marked and increases in extent towards the outer feathers ; 

 crown of head like the back, but separated from it bj- a broad collar 

 of orange-rufous : a broad white eyebrow extending from the base of 

 the nostrils to the sides of the occiput, and separated from the crown 

 by a dusky line ; lores, feathers round the eye, and ear-coverts ashy 

 black, with a white patch on the fore part of the latter ; cheeks and 

 throat white, with a circular collar running from the hinder cheeks 

 down across the fore neck, and the tln'oat round this collar becomes 

 gradually orange-rufous ; remainder of under surface white, tinged 

 with fulvous on the under tail-coverts ; the sides of the body light 

 tawny, washed with brown on the inner flanks; thighs ashy brown; 

 axillaries light fulvous-brown ; under wing-coverts ashy brown, the 

 lower Ecries light tawny ; under wing-coverts dusky brown, light 

 fulvous along the edge of the inner web ; "iris bright yellow ; eye- 

 lids dull purple ; bill dark horn, the tip and margins pale horn ; 

 legs light plumbeous ; claws pale horn-colour ; the iris is sometimes 

 greenish yellow, which probably indicates immaturity " {'Dates). 

 Total length 11 inches, culmen I'lo, wing 4'55, tail 5, tarsus 

 1-65. 



As a rule the ear-coverts in the series I have examined have not 

 varied much, having been mostly blackish with a large patch of 

 white ; the latter, however, often becomes quite obscured. The 

 wing ranges from 4'4 to 4'8 inches. 



In Burmese specimens the tips to the tail-feathers are constantly 

 buff ; but in examples from the eastern Himalayas they are white ; 

 so that this colouring of the tail-feathers cannot be considered a 

 specific character. A pair shot by Mr. Gates measure : — 



Total 



length. 



in. 



S . Lower Pegu 11"3 



2 . Lower Pegu 11-5 



Hab. The same as that of G. pectoralis. 

 a. Ad. sk. Nepal. 



Culmen. Winsr. Tail. 



Tarsus. 



h. Ad. St. 

 c, (I, e. Ad. sk. 

 /, g. Ad. sk. 

 h,'i. Ad.sk 

 k. 5 ad. sk. 



/. Ad. sk. 



Nepal. 



Nepal. 



Darjiliug. 



Bootan {Pemberton). 



N. Ivhasia hills {CJiemiell). 



Tons:hoo. 



m. S ad. sk. Thayetmyo, Sopt. 15. 



n. 5 ad. sk. Near Pegu, July 4. 



0,2). c? ad. sk. Lower Pegu, Dec. 1877. 



q. $ ad. sk. Lower Pegu, Jan. 3, 1878. 



B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



(Type of species.) 

 B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P 

 B. H. Hodgson, Esq. \v.\. 

 Henry Seebohm, Esq. [P 

 India Museum. 

 Capt. E. G. Wardlaw 



Kamsav. 

 Capt. 11. 'G. "Wardlaw 



Ramsay 



E. W. Gates, Esq. 

 E. W. Gates, Esq. 

 E. W. Gates, Esq. 

 E. W. Gates, Esq. 



