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of Nepal, PasBeres, pi. Ixxvi. %. 1. no. 482, fig. 2. no. 483, pi. Ixxvii. 

 tig. 1. no. 482, tig. 2. no. 483, pi. Ixxviii. fig. 3. no. 406, unde 

 Ilodf/s. Grm/'s Zool. Misc. p. 83 (1844). 

 Euticiila frontalis ( Tigors), Gray, Cat. Mamm. SfC. Nepal Coll. Hodgs. 

 p. 08 (184(i) ; Bh/th, J. A. S. Beng. xvi. p. 134 (1847); Gray, Gan. 

 B. i. p. 180 (1848); Bhitli, Cat. B. Mm. As. Soc. p. 108 (1849); 

 Bp. Comp. i. p. 296 (18-30) ; Horsf. iif Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. 

 i. p. 308 (18.54) ; Jerd. B.Ind. ii.'p. 141 (1863), Gray, Hand-l.B. 



p. 174 (1877) ; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 168 (1877). 



AduU male in full autumn plumafje. Forehead and supercilium 

 cobalt-blue, shading on the crown into blue-black, which extends 

 over the whole head and neck including the mantle and scapulars ; 

 the blue-black feathers are tipped with chestnut, causing these 

 parts to appear to be dusted over with brown; the primaries 

 and secondaries are brown, with narrow pale margins to the outside 

 edges ; the innermost secondaries are dark brown, broadly margined 

 on the outside edges with chestm;t ; the lesser wing-coverts are 

 dark blue, with narrow pale edges ; the median and greater wing- 

 coverts are black with broader chestnut edges, and the primary 

 coverts are dark brown with obscure pale edges : the lower back, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts are rich chestnut ; the two centre tail- 

 feathers are black, margined with chestnut on the outer edge towards 

 the base ; the rest of the tail-feathers are rich chestnut, with the 

 terminal half of the outside web of each outside feather and the tips 

 of all the feathers for about half an inch black. Sides of the neck, 

 ear-coverts, cheeks, chin, throat, and fore neck blue-black, dusted 

 over with brown ; the rest of the uuderparts rich chestnut, somewhat 

 paler in the centre of the belly ; axillaries chestnut, with concealed 

 dusky bases ; thighs sooty brown. Bill, legs, and claws black. 

 Wing considerably rounded and concave ; fourth and fifth primaries 

 nearly equal and longest, second primary about equal to the eighth ; 

 bastard primary l-l to 0'9 inch, rather broad, not quite half the length 

 of the second primary. Length of wing 3*6 to 3-4 inches (females 

 3-5 to 3-2), tail 2-9 t;o 2-7, culmen 0-61 to 0-54, tarsus l-Q to 0-92. 



In the adult male in breeding-plumage the chestnut tips of the 

 feathers which are blue-black have become entirely abraded, causing 

 the dusted appearance of these parts to disappear. The chestnut 

 and pale edges to the wing-coverts and innennost secondaries have 

 also almost all been abraded. 



Adult female in full autumn 2^lumage. General colour of the 

 upper parts rich sooty brown, with a shade of chestnut on the 

 forehead and shading into rich chestnut on the rump and upper tail- 

 coverts ; quills brown, with obscure, narrow, pale margins on the 

 outside edges ; innermost secondaries and wing-coverts dark brown, 

 with broader brownish-white margins on the outside edges ; two centre 

 tail-feathers dark brown, with chestnut margins on the basal haK of 

 the outside edges ; the rest of the tail-feathers rich chestnut, three- 

 fourths of the terminal portion of the outside edge of the outside 

 feather on each side and the apex of each of the remaining feathers 



