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head and back rufescent brown, broadly streaked with black down 

 the centre of the feathers, the dorsal plumes slightly paler-edged ; 

 rump and upper taU-coverts more uniform, the feathers with slightly 

 indicated dusky centres ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median 

 and greater series dusky blackish, externally rufous, with pale 

 ochraceous spots at the ends ; bastard wing, primary-coverts, and 

 quills blackish, externally edged with rufous, the inner secon- 

 daries on both webs ; tail-feathers brown margined with rufous ; 

 crown of head like the back, and streaked in the same manner with 

 black ; lores dull whity brown, surmounted by a narrow streak of 

 creamy buff, which is succeeded by a broad band of bright cinnamon 

 above the ear-coverts ; eyelid creamy buff' : ear-coverts black, with 

 a few whitish streaks on the lower ones, the hinder ones streaked 

 with cinnamon, a shade of which colour pervades the hinder ear- 

 coverts and the hinder checks ; sides of neck ashy grey streaked 

 with black ; cheeks and throat white, mottled with triangular spots 

 of black, especially along the malar line ; fore neck and breast bright 

 cinnamon, forming a broad pectoral band : centre of breast and 

 abdomen ashy or creamy whitish, the sides washed with cinnamon- 

 rufous and broadly streaked with black ; thighs brown ; under tail- 

 coverts creamy bulf washed with cinnamon, and strongly mottled 

 with dark-brown bases ; axHlaries ashy ; under wing-coverts also 

 ashy, mottled with brown bases ; quills dusky brown below, mar- 

 gined with ashy rufous along the inner web. Total length 4"7 inches, 

 culmen 0-5, wing 2-4:5, taU 1-85, tarsus 0-8. 



An adtdt female, in Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay's collection, from 

 Sikhim, differs in having the breast-band paler and streaked with 

 black. Total length 5 inches, wing 2-55, tail 2-15, tarsus \-~o. 



Yovng. Entirely mottled. Above brown, with broad black centres 

 to the feathers ; the head more dingy than the back, but similarly 

 streaked with black, and separated from the latter by a shade of 

 ochreous buff on the sides of the neck and hinder neck ; wing- 

 coverts conspicuously spotted with ochreous at the ends, the greater 

 coverts and quiUs externally edged with rufous ; ear-coverts dusky 

 blackish ; on the sides of the neck behind the ear-coverts a whitish 

 patch; throat ashy whitish, mottled with black streaks ; the pec- 

 toral band of the adult indicated by a broad patch of ochraceous 

 buff broadly streaked with black, occupying the whole of the fore 

 neck and breast ; abdomen whitish, faintly streaked with black. 



Hah. Throughout the Himalayas, extending into the hills of 

 Western Szechuen, 3Ioupin, Kokonoor, and occurring more rarely 

 on the mountains of Tsinling. 



a. Ad. sk. N.W. Himalavas. Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill 



b, c. Ad, sk. Kumaon (Straclieij). India Museum. 



d, e,f. Ad. ; g, h, Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.], 



i. Juv. sk. 



/;-?«. Ad. ;«. Imm.sk. Nepal (//o^/y.son). India Museum. 



o. S ad. sk. Native Sikliini {Man- A. 0. Hume, Esq. 



delli). 



p. Ad. sk. Western Szechueu. ALLe David [C.]. 



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