1. HEMICffELIDON. 121 



Adult male. General colour above brown ; least wing-eoverts 

 uniform with the back, the greater series dark brown with lighter 

 brown tips to the median series, the greater coverts tipped with 

 whitish ; primary- coverts and primaries dark brown, the secondaries 

 edged with pale brown, whitish at the tips ; tail dark brown ; lores 

 butFy white ; in front of the eye a dusky spot ; round the eye a ring 

 of buflfy-white feathers ; feathers below the eye and ear-coverts 

 brown like the crown ; cheeks white, mottled with brown bases to 

 the feathers; throat white, widening out on the lower part and sepa- 

 rated from the cheeks by a broad moustachial line of brown ; breast 

 and sides of body ashy brown, the former slightly mottled with 

 grizzly white edgings to the feathers ; abdomen and under tail- 

 coverts pure white ; thighs brown ; under wing-coverts light tawny, 

 with dusky bases to the feathers, the quills ashy brown below with 

 an edging of light tawny to the inner webs ; " upper mandible 

 dusky black ; lower mandible yellowish brown, tipped with dusky ; 

 legs and feet brownish black ; iris dark brown '' (Armstrong). Total 

 length 4-9 inches, cidmen 0-4, wing 3'15, tail 2-2, tarsus 0"5. 



06s. The description is from a specimen collected by Dr. Eadde in 

 Eastern Siberia on the iSth of ilay, 1856, and therefore in full 

 breeding-plumage. Examples from other parts of China and the 

 Himalayas are similar, but great variation takes place in this species 

 as regards the tone and intensity of the brown colour both on the 

 upper and under surface, and also in the uniform or mottled colour 

 of the breast. The coloration of the throat is very different in indi- 

 viduals, being in some almost uniform brown, succeeded by a jugular 

 spot of white. 



Young (Peking, Sept. 1868, R. Swinhoe). Ashy brown, mottled 

 with whitish streaks and terminal spots to the feathers, the greater 

 coverts edged and tipped with buffy white, the rest of the coverts 

 spotted with whitish at the tip like the back ; primary-coverts and 

 quills dark brown, the inner secondaries edged and tipped with pale 

 rufous ; under surface very thickly mottled with brown, the feathers 

 being white with dusky brown edges. (ATus. H. Seehohm.) 



Hah. Eastern Siberia, China, Burmese countries, Himalaya Moun- 

 tains. 



a. Ad. sk. N. India. Earl of Giffiird TP.]. 



h. Ad. sk. Cashmere. E. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



c. c? ad. ; d,e. 2 ad. sk. Sonamarg, July Capt. Biddidph [C.]. 



187.5. 



/. $ ad. sk. Rawul Pindee. Capt. Biddulph [C.]. 



g-k. Ad. sk. N.W. Himalaya.^. Capt. Stackhouse Pin will 



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/-?. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



(Types of H.fidiginnsa.) 



r. Juv. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [PJ. 



s-v. Ad.sk. Darjiling. .T. Fotheringham, Esq ' 



u\ x. Juv.sk. Darjiling. J. Fotheringham,Esq 



