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mens are five in number ; but the tail is shaded with rufous in the 

 reddish brown bird, grey in the others. 



Fokien. In the British Museum is a specimen, presented by Mr. 

 Gould, which is thoroughly intermediate between the rufous and 

 grey plumages mentioned in the foregoing paragraph. The general 

 colour of the bird is the usual chocolate-brown ; but it is shaded with 

 rufous on the back, and has the hind neck decidedly rufous. The 

 bands on the tail are five, and the abdominal streaks are well broken 

 up and the spots distinct. The first primary is nearly uniform, but 

 has indications of apparently developing bars of rufous on the inner 

 web. 



Formosa. A specimen is in the Norwich Museum procured from the 

 Maison Verreaux, but bearing no evidence of Mr. Swinhoe's collect- 

 ing. It seems to be not quite adult, and has the scapulars rather 

 browner than the back, the concealed white spots being for the most 

 part tinged ^vith fulvous ; the wings decidedly rufescent : tail with 

 five bars ; bars on first primary pretty plain ; abdominal streaks of 

 irregular shape, with the subtcrminal spot nearly separate in some 

 feathers. 



Amoi/. I have examined two specimens from Amoy, collected by 

 Mr. Swinhoe. They are both in the oi'dinary chocolate plumage, 

 with no perceptible difterence in the colour of the head ; the wings 

 also are not particularly rufescent. Bands on taU five. The stripes 

 on the abdomen in both specimens are in process of dissolution ; but 

 one (killed in Xovcmber 1866) seems to be a little younger than the 

 other, for it has a decided fulvous tinge on the under parts, and the 

 first primary has no bars ; whereas the other specimen is not so 

 fulvescent below, and has indications of bars on the first primary. 



Tingcliow. The single bird in Mr. Swinhoe's collection fi'om this 

 locaUty was killed in August 1867, and is smaller than any of the 

 other Chinese specimens yet examined {cf. table of measurements 

 given below). It seems to be a fully adiilt bird, with the spots on 

 the abdomen thoroughly separate and the chest-streaks narrowed. 

 The colour is uniform chocolate, the head resembling the back, the 

 wings with a scarcely perceptible rufous tinge. Bars on tail six, 

 the basal one completely hidden by the tail-coverts. First primary 

 with distinct fulvous bars on the inner web. 



Haitian. Mr. Swinhoe collected a male and female in this island 

 on the 29th of March, 1868. The former is the smaller bird ; but 

 otherwise thej' resemble each other, both being nearly unifonn cho- 

 colate, with very little rufous on the wings. They are both some- 

 what washed with fulvous below, and have each five bars on the tail, 

 the streaks on the abdomen being irregular in shape and breaking 

 up into spots, and the bars on the first primary are plainly to be 

 seen. 



The following are the general measurements of the series ex- 

 amined : — 



