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wash of fulvous on the flauks ; uuder wiu^-coverts and axillaries 

 jet-black, with uarrow and almost obsolete white tips ; quills broMTi 

 below, white at base and along the edge of the inner web ; bill 

 black; feet black: iris dark brown. Total length 4-3 inches, 

 culmen 0-45, wing 2-6, tail 1-8, tarsus 0-9. {Mus. If. Seehohm.) 



Adult female (Valley of the Yen-e-sa}', June 11th, 1877). 

 General colour above brown with sandy-buff edges to the feathers, 

 broader and more extended on the scajjulars ; wings dark brown, 

 with sandy-brown margins to the feathers, the greater series with 

 buff tips, the secondaries tipped with whitish ; a smaller white 

 patch than in the male, formed by the innermost median and greater 

 coverts and the concealed bufi'y-white bases of the innermost secon- 

 daries ; rump and upper tail-coverts reddish buff, the latter slightly 

 marked with brown ; tail dark brown with very narrow fulvous 

 tips and margins to the outer feather ; a narrow frontal line, lores, 

 feathers above and round the eye fulvous ; ear-coverts dark brown, 

 streaked with fulvous ; sides of neck mottled, being sandy buff with 

 dark brown centres to the feathers ; cheeks aud throat dull ashy 

 fulvous ; remainder of under surface of body pale sandy bufi", a few 

 of the feathers of the fore neck and chest with orange-rufous centres ; 

 under wing-coverts ashy fulvous, the axillaries sandy buff with dark 

 brown bases to the feathers. Total length 4-2 inches, eulmen U-45, 

 wing 2-6, tail 1-75, tarsus 0-85. (Mus. H. Seehohm.) 



Hah. India, Burmese countries, extending eastwards to China 

 and Japan ; throughout Siberia, westwards to the Petchora river 

 in Northern Russia, and south of the Ural river. In the Eastern 

 Himalayas a large race (P. rohxistd, Tristr.) is found (cf. Hume, 

 Str. F. 1877, p. 244). 



a. (J ad. sk. Ust Zylma, Petchora Henry Seebohm, Esq. 



River, May 25, 1875. [P.']. 



b. (S ad. sk. Yen-e-sav Valley, 67° N. Henry Seebohm, Esq 



lat., July 4, 1877. [P.]. 



c. d. c5" 9 ad. sk. Kuschowat, Ob River, Dr. Otto Finsch I C.I. 



July 11, 1876. 



e. (S imm. sk. India. 



/. (S hiem. sk. India. Capt. W. Elliot. 



y. 6 ad. sk. Siudh. Dr. Heurv Gould ' P.]. 



h. $ ad. sk. Ghuzni. Dr. HenrV Gould IP.]. 



'■ c? ad. sk. Cashmere. R. B.Shai-pe, Esq. [P.]. 



k, I. ^ ad.;w), n. $ ad. N.W. Himalayas. Capt. Stackhouse Pin- 



sk. 



wi 



11 [P.]. 



.p. d imm. sk. N.W. Himalayas. Capt. Stackhouse Pin- 



will [P.]. 

 d ad. ; t-io. (S Nepal. B. II. Hodgson, Esq. 



hiem. sk. 



[P.]. 



x-c'. S ad. ; d'. Juv. sk. Nepal. B. II. Hodgson, Esq. 



e\ (S hieui. sk. Darjiliug. Secretary of State for 



India '[P.]. 



f. 6 hieju. sk. Darjiling ('7'. ('. J«vf/y«). C. Bvgrave Wharton, 



E84. [P.]. 



9'- 6;ft',t'- ? ad.sk. Behar. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



[P.1. 



