'M. PARAU0I0KNI3. 497 



2, Paradoxornis guttaticollis. 



Paradoxornis guttaticollis, A. David, N. Arch. Mm. vii. Bull. p. 14 

 (1871); id. ^- Oud. Ois. de la Chine, p. 203, pi. 64 (1877). 



Parado.xnniis austeni, Goidd, B. Asia, part xxvi. (1874) ; Godwin- 

 Austen, J. A. S. Belief, xliii. p. 1")9 (1874) ; Hume, Sir. F. 1875, 

 p. 392, 1879, p. 95. 



Adult. General colour above sandy brown, the wing-coverts like 

 the back, but washed slightly with sandy rufous ; quills dark brown, 

 externally sandy rufous, paler towards the ends of the primaries ; 

 tail-feathers light brown, margined with sandy buff : head and hind 

 neck light rufous ; lores and feathers below the eye white, the 

 latter mottled with dusky bases to the feathers ; ear-coverts black ; 

 under surface of body whitish, washed with pale sandy buff on the 

 throat, breast, and sides of bod}', as well as the under tail-coverts ; 

 lower throat with some large blackish spots ; thighs dusky fulvous- 

 brown ; under wing-coverts and axillaries light sandy buff, the 

 lower series rather more fulvous ; quills brown below, sandy buff 

 along the inner web ; " bill yellow ; feet greenish, claws greenish 

 grey ; iris chestnut-rufous " (David). Total length 6 inches, eulmen 

 0-6, wing 3-05, tail '.i-2, tarsus I'Oo. 



Hah. Western Szechueu, extending into the xs'aga and Khasia 

 hills. 



a. Ad. sk. Naga hills, oOOO feet. Col. II. H. Godwin- Austen 



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3. Paradoxornis heudii. 



Paradoxornis heiidii, David, C. R. Ixxiv. p. 1449 ; id. N. Arch. Mus. 

 ix. Buli. pi. 4. fig. 2 ( l>7o) ; Goidd, B. Ami, part xxn. (1874) ; 

 David if Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 204, pi. Ixiii. (1877). 



Adult male (Nankin. Dec. 187^ ; Pere Heude). Head pearly 

 grey, this colour extending onto the mantle, where it is slightly 

 streaked with dusky blackish and washed with vinous : the back a 

 little more chestnut : lower back and rump paler and more sandy 

 buff; upper tail-covcrts and centre tail-feathers pale vinous, a little 

 more rufous towards the cuds ; remainder of the tail-feathers black, 

 ashy at the ends of the outer webs, white towards the ends of the 

 inner ones, the white increasing towards the outer feathers, the 

 outermost white along the outer web ; wing-coverts chestnut like 

 the back ; on the edge of the wing a patch of white ; primary- 

 coverts black, externally chestnut ; quiUs black, pale chestnut along 

 the outer webs and round the tips ; the secondaries black, washed 

 externally with sandy buff, the innermcst broadly white along the 

 inner welj ; lores, sides of face, and ear-coverts pale greyish or hoary 

 whitish, separated from the grey crown by a very distinct super- 

 ciliary streak of black extending to the sides of the nape ; throat 

 greyish white, changing to pale vinous on the lower throat and fore 

 neck ; rest of the under surface deep sandy buff, washed with chest- 



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