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inch of the base of midille toe. The following is a description of tliis 

 specimen, which I take to be the trnc N. jctponka (Schl.) : — 



Adult. Above chocolate-brown, the head slightly darker than the 

 back, the scapnlars with half-concealed bars and spots of white, very- 

 large, and in some instances nearly traversing the feathers ; wing- 

 coverts nniform chocolatc-})rown, as also the primary-coverts ; quills 

 dark brown, barred with paler brown, some of the lighter bars in- 

 clining on the outer web to fulvous, the bars on the secondaries much 

 less distinct and narrower, except on the inner web, where they are 

 broader and fulvous white ; upper tail-coverts uniform like the back ; 

 tail light brown, tipped narrowly with whitish, and crossed with five 

 bands of darker brown, the subterminal one rather broader than the 

 others ; lores and frontal plumes whitish, with hair-like blackish 

 bristles directed forwards over the nostrils ; cheeks and chin whitish, 

 with dark brown streaks, the rest of the under surface pure white, 

 thickly streaked -with dark brown, the centres to the feathers being 

 of this colour and very broad, but narrowing towai'ds the base of the 

 plume, and often severing the central streak into two spots, the 

 subterminal one being generally oval in shape, and forming on the 

 flank-feathers lateral bars of white ; leg-feathers brown, mottled 

 with fidvous ; under tail-coverts pure white, with a few brown 

 markings down the centre of some of the feathers ; under wing- 

 coverts brown, streaked with fulvous, the inner ones especially ful- 

 vescent, the median series and the axillars white, barred or spotted 

 with brown, the lower series dark brown, spotted with fulvous bars 

 on the inner web, resembling the inner lining of the quills, which 

 are dark brown below, barred with fulvous on the inner web. Total 

 length 11 inches, wing 8'6, tail 5, tarsus 1'0,5. 



C'hefoo. From this place Mr. Swinhoe has three specimens, col- 

 lected in May 1873 and on the 15th of October 1874. Two of them 

 have five, but the third six bands on the tail ; the chief peculiarity 

 lies iu the reddish shade on the wing-coverts, which are thereby 

 decidedly lighter than the back. The under surface of the body is 

 very thickly streaked with rufous chocolate, the lower flanks barred 

 with this colour ; and from the mai'kings on the abdomen it is evi- 

 dent that this change from broad central streaks to terminal spots 

 is gained not by a moult, but by a gradual change in the pattern of 

 the feather. The immature birds seem to have at the same time 

 remains of fulvous on the breast, the margins to the feathers being 

 of this colour. One of the male specimens killed at C'hefoo in May 

 is not so rufous on the wings as the other, and has the first primary 

 perfectly uniform. 



Foochow. Three of Mr. Swiuhoe's specimens obtained here are in 

 the Norwich Museum. Two of them resemble the Chefoo birds 

 almost exactly, having the first primary unbarred. The third spe- 

 cimen, however, is different from any yet examined by me, for the 

 general colour of the back is rufous brown, the head more greyish, 

 and contrasting with the rest of the upper surface ; the first primary 

 is plainly barred below. The bauds on the tail in all three speci- 



