128 MUSCICAPID^. 



Adult male. General colour above ashy brown, the wing-coverts 

 rather darker than the back, and the greater series edged with 

 rusty brown ; jirimary-coverts sooty brown ; wing-coverts dark 

 brown, the secondaries edged with nisty, paler at the tips ; tail 

 brown, like the back ; lores and a ring of feathers round the 

 eye huffy white ; in front of the eye a dusky spot : ear-coverts and 

 cheeks brown ; throat and rest of under surface of bodj- pure white, 

 the sides of the neck, breast, and sides of body suffused with brown ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries light fawn-brown ; quills dark 

 brown below, light fawn-colour along the inner web ; " bill black, 

 the lower mandible yellowish at base ; legs dark vandyke-brown ; 

 iris chocolate "' (A. Everett). Total length 4'8 inches, culmen 0"45, 

 wing 2-75, tail 1"95, tarsus O'oo. 



Mr. Hume observes (Str. F. 1873, p. 219) :— " The colours of the 

 soft parts vary somewhat. In some specimens the legs, feet, and 

 upper mandible are brown, in some black, or nearly so ; in all the 

 gape, inside of the mouth, and lower mandible are yellow, paler and 

 purer in some, more orange in others, and the tip of the lower 

 mandible is always brownish." 



Young. Differs from the adult in being flammnlated above, the 

 feathers having large ovate spots of ochraceous birff in their centres, 

 the wing-coverts and quills being edged with rufous-buff ; sides of 

 face light brown streaked with buff ; under surface of body white, 

 mottled with dusky brown edgings to the feathers ; upper tail- 

 coverts and edges to the tail-feathers rufous. 



Ohs. Considerable variation takes place in this species, but only 

 as regards the colour of the brown upper surface, which differs in 

 intensity, and as regards the brown on the chest ; this varies in ex- 

 tent, being sometimes broad, sometimes narrow, and occasionally 

 dissolved into obscure streaks. The edges to the wing- coverts and 

 quills are often rufesceut, and this is probably a sign of immaturity. 

 I cannot see the least reason for separating Aheonax terricolor 

 of Hodgson, notwithstanding Mr. Brooks's opinion that they con- 

 stitute distinct species ; and I have had the opportunity of comparing 

 with the Museum series two specimens belonging to Mr. Seebohm, 

 and determined as A. terricolor by Mr. Erooks himself, to say nothing 

 of a large series of the typical specimens from Nepal. 



Hah. Japan and Eastern Siberia, throughout China, the Burmese 

 countries, India and Ceylon, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, and the Philip- 

 pines. 



a. Ad. sk. China. Mr. Fortune [C.]. 



b. J ad. ;^k. N.W. Himalayas. Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill 



[P.l 

 c-f. .\d. ; r/,/(, !. Juv. sk. Nepal. B.H.Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



k. Ad. sk. Deccan (Sykes). Secretary of State for 



India [P. j. 

 Hugh Cuming, Esq. [C.]. 

 Pm-chased. 

 J. C. I). I'ackman, Esq. 



