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brown, the inner secondaries washel and margined with the latter 

 colour, the primaries sandy brown externally ; nasal plumes, lores, 

 feathers above and below the eye, and ear-coverts blue-black, form- 

 ing a broad band on each side of the head ; sides of face, sides of 

 neck, and entire underparts white, with a slight pinkish shade on 

 the breast ; thighs and under wing-coverts light brown ; bill dusky 

 blackish; legs plumbeous brown; iris brownish yellow. Total 

 length S"5 inches, 'culmcn 0'95, wing 4'7'5, tail 3-4, tarsus 0'8. 



Young. Differs from the adult in being light brown, with the 

 head of the same colour as the back, the feathers of the upper sur- 

 face having all of them light margins to the feathers, rather rufous 

 on the wing-coverts and quills, the upper tail-coverts and tail 

 strongly washed with rufous ; underneath creamy white, with an 

 ashy shade on the throat and breast ; band along the side of the 

 head ashy brown instead of black. 



Hab. Eastern Himalayas, ranging into Assam and Burmah. 



a. Ad. St. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P. 



b. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Es(i. [P._ 



c. d. Juv. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P. |. 

 e. Juv. sk. Sikhim. W.T.Blanford.Esq. [P.]. 

 /. Juv. sk. T)a.r\ilmg{Dr.Jerdon). C.BygraveWhartou,Esq. 



[P.]. 

 q, h. Ad. sk. N.W. Himalavas. Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill 



«', k. Ad., 1, 711. Juv. sk. Nazeerah, Upper As- R. B. Shai-pe, Esq. [P.]. 

 sam (Dr. Reid). 



4. Tephrodornis sylvicola. 



Tephrodomis sylvicola, Jerd. Madr. Juian. x. p. 236; B!i/th, J. A. 

 S. B. XV. p. :504; id. Cat. B. Mus. A. 8. B. p. 15.3; Bjh Cunsp. i. 

 p. .357 ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 408 ; Gray, Iland-l. B. i. p. 394. 



Adult. Above dark cinereous brown, the lower back greyer at the 

 base of the feathers and dark grey towards their tips ; upper tail- 

 coverts white, the longer ones blackish brown ; wing-coverts slatj' 

 like the back, the greater series and the quills and tail brown ; 

 nasal bristles, lores, featliers above and below the eye and ear- 

 coverts blue-black ; checks and entire under surface of body white, 

 with an ashy pink shade on the breast ; thighs ashy brown ; under 

 wing-coverts dull cinereous ; bill blackish ; legs plumbeous ; iris 

 wax-yeUow. Total length 8-5 inches, culmen O'S, wing 4'55, tail 

 4-4, tarsus 0-8. 



Ohs. The single specimen in the Museum being in poor condition, 

 and the description being, therefore, perhaps a little inaccurate, I 

 subjoin the following remark of Dr. Jerdon's respecting it : — " This 

 species differs from T. pelvica in being smaller, in the jmrer and 

 darker cinereous hue of the upjicr plumage, and in the white 

 beneath ; also in the more conspicuous and darker eye-streak." 



Hah. Southern parts of the Indian peninsula. 



a. Ad. sk. [India.] 



