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greater coverts witla narrow fulvescent margins ; quills sepia-brown, 

 externally dark olive-brown, more ashy on the outer webs of the 

 primaries ; tail-feathers dark olive-brown, narrowly fringed with 

 whitish at the tips ; head and nape dull rufous-brown, with narrow 

 fulvous shaft-stripes ; hind neck broadly streaked with blackish 

 brown ; base of forehead streaked with blackish shaft-lines ; lores 

 and a tolerabh' broad eyebrow ashy whitish, with minute tips 

 of black to the feathers, this eyebrow continued to the sides of the 

 neck in a uniform creamy-white band; ear-coverts rufous-brown, 

 dusky on the hinder margin ; eyelid yellowish white ; cheeks 

 white ; sides of neck very distinctly streaked, the feathers brown, 

 the inner web being more or less entirely creamy white ; throat 

 white ; remainder of under surface of body ochraceous buff, broadly 

 streaked with blackish brown down the centre of the feathers, 

 the streaks on the flanks broader, paler, and more olive-brown 

 in tiut ; centre of abdomen creamy white ; thighs fulvous-brown ; 

 under tail-coverts olive-brown, edged with creamy white, the 

 outer ones entirely of the latter colour on the inner web ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries light ochraceous bitff ; quills dusky below, 

 light ochraceous along the edge of the inner web. Total length 6"6 

 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 2-75, tail 2-75, tarsus 1'05. 



Hah. Lower hiUs of Nepal and Sikhim, extending eastwards to 

 the Bhootan Dooars and the Khasia hills. 



a. Ad. sk. ? Oude. Capt. Stackhouse Pinvrill 



[P-]- 



b, ■€. A-d. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



(Types of Hemipteron nipalense.) 

 d, e. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.], 



/, ff, h. Ad. sk. Nepal {B. H. Hcdgson). India Museum. 



i. Ad. sk. Darjiling. Purchased. 



k. Ad. sk. Dariilinnr. Henrv Seebohm, Esq. 



[P.-]. 

 I. Ad. sk. Lower hills, Bhotan Dooars, E. W. Gates, Esq. 



Dec. 1872 {L. MandeUi). 

 m. Ad. sk. Khasia hills (Jerdon). Gould Collection. 



2. Pellorneum intermedium. (Plate XIII. fig. 1.) 

 Adult female. Similar to P. nipalense, but smaller and having the 

 eyebrow creamy buff or light tawny instead of ashy white, and 

 with onh' the extreme base of the forehead and lores streaked with 

 black shaft-lines. Total length G'l inches, culmen 0*7, wing 2"55, 

 tail 2-b, tarsus 1. 



Young. Uniform rufescent brown, rather more olive on the wings 

 and tail ; the head slightly more rufous than the body, with narrow 

 fulvous shaft-streaks ; sides of face tawny ; under surface of body 

 white, washed with tawny buff on the breast, sides of body, flanks, 

 and thighs. 



Hah. From Cachar to the neighbourhood of Thayetmyo. {Mus. 

 R. O. Wardlaiv liamsay.) 



a. $ ad. sk. DiUtooska, Cachar, Mav 11, 1S78. J. Inglis, Esq. [C.l. 

 6. 2 juv. sk. Dilkoosha, June 9, 1878. J. Inglis, Esq. [C.J. 



