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coverts like the back, sliglitly shaded with grey ; remainder of wiug- 

 coverts and quills dark brown, edged with lighter brown ; two centre 

 tail-feathers blackish, the next on each side with a white patch at 

 the base of the outer web : remainder of the feathers white at base, 

 with a broad ending of black, which extends a little way up the 

 outer web ; lores, feathers round the eye, ear-coverts, and sides of 

 neck dark grey : under surface of body from the chin to the abdo- 

 men deep orange-chestnut, the sides of the breast dark grey ; a line 

 of black feathers running from the base of the bill down the sides 

 of the throat to the sides of the upper breast, and dividing the 

 orange throat from the grey neck ; abdomen whitish ; flanks and 

 under tail-coverts fawn -buff; thighs ashy; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries light fawn-biiff, whitish near the edge of the wing ; quills 

 dusky brown below, fulvescent along the edge of the inner web ; 

 " bin brown above, lower mandible yellowish, brown at the tip ; 

 feet dark brown, the soles yellowish ; iris hazel-brown " (Legge, 

 MS.). Total length 4-4 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-7, tail 2-2, 

 tarsus 0"7. 



Adult female. Eather lighter brown above than the male, and 

 without any grey on the rump ; ear-coverts light brown ; lores, 

 feathers round the eye, and cheeks ashy whitish ; throat buffy white ; 

 breast and sides of body yellowish orange, the sides of the upper 

 breast greyish ; centre of the body and under tail-coverts white ; 

 wings and tail much as in the male ; under wing-coverts yello'W'ish 

 like the flanks ; " biU dark horn-colour, the lower mandible light ; 

 legs blackish lead-colour ; iris umber-brown " {Legge, MS.). Total 

 length 4-6 inches, vnng 2-65, tail 2, tarsus 0-7. 



Mab. North-western India from Cashmere southwards ; Ceylon, 



a. 2 ad. sk. Cashmere. Capt. J. Biddulph [C.]. 



b. cj ad. sk. llambodde Pass, Cevlon. Capt. W. Vinceut Legge [P.]. 



Jan. 17, 1877. 



c. 2 f'd. sk. Dimbidla, Ceylon, Nov. Capt. W. Vincent Legge [P.]. 



15, 1871. 



11. PETR(ECA. 



Type. 

 Petroica, Sivainson, Zool. Illustr. 2nd series, i. pi. 36 



(1829) P. leggii. 



Erytbrodryas, GmiM, P. Z. S. 1842, p. 112 P. rhodinogastra. 



Myiomoira, Reichenh. Syst. Ai\ Taf. Ixvii. (1850) . . P. toitoi. 

 Melanodryas, Gould, Ilanclb. B. Austr. i. p. 283 (1865) P. cucullata. 

 Amaurodryas, Gould, Handb.B.A%istr.\.^.2QQ (1865j P. ^Ittata. 



Bill oi Petroeca lc(j(jii. 

 Haiige. Australia, New Zealand, Pacific islands. 



