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creasing in extent towaids the outermost ; least wing- coverts slaty 

 grey like the mantle : median and greater coverts pure white, the 

 outennost and bastard wing slaty grey ; primary-coverts and pri- 

 maries dark brown, narrowly margined with slaty brown, the inner 

 secondaries broadly edged with greyish white ; ear-coverts, sides of 

 face, and sides of neck slaty grey, rather blacker on the cheeks ; 

 behind the eve a small longitudinal mark of white feathers ; entire 

 throat and breast deep orange, fading off into orange-yellow on the 

 flanks ; lower abdomen and under tail-covcrts white ; thighs slaty 

 grey ; axillaiics orange like the breast ; under wing-coverts white, 

 the edge of the wing mottled with greyish bases to the feathers ; 

 quills brown below, ashy whitish along the inner web ; " bill black ; 

 feet brown; iris black" (David). Total length 4-7 inches, culmen 

 0-4, wing 3, tail 2-1, tarsus 0-0. 



Ohs. The description is taken from the Xatuna-Island specimen 

 mentioned below. Other specimens of adult males are very similar, 

 but vary in the extent of black pervading the upper surface, which 

 extends over the cheeks and sides of the neck, and also over the 

 least wing-coverts. The specimens which exhibit these peculiarities 

 are chiefly Bornean, and they may probably be putting on their full 

 plumage before returning from their winter quarters ; they are more 

 richly coloured than Jajmnese or Chinese specimens in the collection 

 of the iluseum and of ilr. Seebohra. 



Adult fi-male. Diff'erent from the male. General colour above 

 olive-brown, lighter on the rump, where it is yellower ; upper tail- 

 coverts blackish ; tail brown, white at the base of the outer webs of 

 the feathers ; least wing-coverts olive like the back ; remainder of 

 the coverts brown, edged with olive, the greater series tipped with 

 white ; primary-coverts and quills brown, narrowly edged with 

 olive, the inner secondaries with white ; lores yellowish buif ; round 

 the eye a ring of buffj'-white feathers ; ear-coverts olive, with nar- 

 row whitish shaft-lines ; cheeks slightly shaded with grey; under 

 surface of body as in the male, but not so deep orange. Total length 

 4'5 inches, wing 0*4, tail 2 9, tarsus 06. {Mus. H. Sahohm.) 



Young male. In general like the adult female, but much paler 

 orange on the breast, with two bufly-white bars across the wing, 

 composed of the tips to the median and greater coverts ; sides of 

 face grey, the cheeks more or less blackish : tail-feathers broadly 

 white at base of outer web. 



Yonny female. Like the young male, but with no white at the 

 base of the tail-feathers. 



Hah. Eastern Siberia, Japan, throughout China, migrating into 

 the Malayan peninsula and Borneo. 



a. (S ad. sk. .Japan. Purchased. 



b. $ ad.: c. 2 juv.sk. Tingchnw,China,Dec.l867. R. Swinhoe, Esq. [C.l. 



d. J ad. sk. 4-^ 30' N. lat., 106° E. long., K.B. Sharpie, Esq.{;P.]. 



north of theNatunalslands, 

 Xo v. 1 4 , 1 87 1 ( Capi. Con rad. ) 



e. f, g. S ad. .sk. Labuan. Hugh I^ow, Esq. [0.1. 

 A, I. 2 ad.; ^-. cjjuv.sk. Labuan. Hugh Low, Esq. [C.J. 

 /. c? ad. sk. Eastern Seas. Sir E. Belcher [P.]. 



