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web, these bars almost obsolete on the secondaries, the outermost 

 chequered with white on outer web and barred with deep black 

 very distinctly, the under surface of the wing dull rufous, the cross 

 bars very distinct ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts uniform 

 bay, with vciy indistinct brown spots and very sUght indications of 

 white streaks ; tail deep chestnut-bay, crossed with five or six blackish 

 bars, gradually disappearing towards the tips ; frontal feathers and 

 face dull whitish, with a certain pinkish shade, especially on the former; 

 feathers round and in front of the eye deep chestnut ; facial ruff deep 

 chestnut, with bufiy- white bases to the feathers and narrow blackish 

 subterminal bars, the lower part of the ruff more varied, being 

 whitish tij^ped with chestnut, and subterminaUy barred with black, 

 aU in strong contrast ; above the eye, over the summit of the ruff, a 

 conspicuous tuft of whitish feathers ; under surface of body golden 

 buff on breast, slightly washed with pinkish, the abdomen and flanks 

 more decidedly glossed with a pale vinous pink shade, inclining to 

 huffy white on the vent and under tail-coverts ; the breast sparsely 

 spotted with duU brown, becoming rather larger and darker on the 

 abdomen and flanks ; under wing-coverts orange-buff, shaded with 

 chestnut, forming a large patch near the outer edge of the wing, 

 the greater series buffy white, excepting the outermost, which are 

 spotted with dusky blackish in the form of bars ; tarsus buffy white, 

 unspotted ; bill yellowish ; toes brown ; claws yellowish ; iris black. 

 Total length 12 inches, culmen 1-4, wing 7'3, tail 3-1, tarsus 1-9. 



Adult female. Decidedly larger than the male. Total length 13-5 

 inches, wing 8, tail 3-4, tarsus 2. 



Obs. Mr. Hume is not sure of the specific identity of the Phodili 

 from all the localities mentioned. Writing on a Ceylouese example 

 he obser\-es : — " The Ceylon bird differs from the Nepal race in its 

 somewhat smaller size, in the much closer and darker banding of 

 the lower surface of the quills, in the dark brown patch on the wing- 

 lining at the base of the first two or three primaries (this patch 

 being bright chestnut in the Nepal bird), in the dark brownish tint 

 of the lesser wing-coverts along the ulna and of the whole crown, 

 in the conspicuous black banding (almost obsolete in the Nepal bird) 

 of the outer webs of the quills, in the much closer banding of the 

 tail, and in the darker tint of the back, and especially of the lower 

 part of it ; in fact the bird seems referable rather to the Malayan 

 than the Himalayan race." 



Hah. The same as that of the genus. 



a. S ad. St. Java. Hon. East-India Co. [P.]. 



b. 2 ad. st. Java. Zoological Society. 



c. $ ad. st. .lava. Earl of Ellenborough [P.]. 



d. S ad. sk. Sarawak, Borneo. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



e. 2 ad. sk. India (Jerdon). J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 



