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edges to the feathers ; white eye-streak indistinct, and the white 

 spot on the throat almost entirely absent. 

 Ilah. India and Burmese countries. 



a. Ad. sk. lodia. Purchased. 



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



c. Ad. sk. Lower hills, Murree. Capt.C.H.T.Marshall[P.]. 



d. Ad. sk. Murroe. Capt. J. Biddulph [0.]. 



e. 2 jun. sk. Simla, June 1865. Capt. J. Biddulph | C.]. 



f. Ad. sk. N.W. Himalayas. Capt. Stackhouse I'inwill 



IP.]. 



(/. Ad. sk. Darjiling. J.Fotheringham,Esq.[P.]. 



'h-l. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.j. 



m, n. Ad. sk. Upper Assam {Dr. lieid). R. B. Sharps, Esq. [P.]- 



(). 2 ad. sk. " Dense giass jungle below Dr. J. Anderson [C]. 



Bhamau, Jan. (31, 1875." 



p. c5' ad. sk. Pousee, Kalihyen hills, March Dr. J. Anderson [C.]. 



28, 1875. 



17. EMpidura squamata. 



Rhipidura squamata. Mull. S^ ScJil. Natuurl. Gesch. Land- en Volkenk. 

 p. 184; Grmj, Gen. B. i. p. 259; Bp. Cunsp. i. p. 323: Finsch, 

 Neu-Guinea, p. 169; Gi'ay, Hand-l. B. i. p. 331, no. 4979 ; Salvad. 

 P. Z. «■. 1878, p. 84. 



Rhipidura griseicauda, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. vii. p. 924. 



Adult. Head and neck brown, shading off paler on the mantle ; 

 rest of back, rump, and upper tail-coverts foxy red or bay ; wings 

 brOAvn, with a slight shade of ashy brown on the coverts, the 

 secondaries edged with lighter brown ; tail-feathers ashy brown, 

 tipped with white, more broadly on the outer ones, the extreme 

 bases of the feathers bay ; a frontal line of white extending back- 

 wards and forming an eyebrow ; the feathers above this eyebrow 

 mottled with black spots ; lores, feathers round the eye, and ear- 

 coverts dusky black ; cheeks extending in a narrow line backwards, 

 chin, and upper half of the throat white ; lower throat black, 

 forming a conspicuous patch ; centre of breast and abdomen white, 

 the .sides of the body and thighs ashy brown ; fore neck mottled 

 with black and white, the feathers being black with broad white 

 edges ; under tail-coverts dusky brown, with broad white tips ; 

 under wing-coverts white, with brown bases ; quills brown below, 

 with whitish edgings to the inner web. Total length 6'5 inches, 

 culmen 0-5, wing 2'75, tail 3-5, tarsus 0-8. 



06s. On comparing the Salwati specimen with another from Banda 

 collected by Mr. Wallace, a difference in the forehead is observable. 

 The Banda bird, true R. squamata of Miiller, has a broad black fore- 

 head, with a small spot of whito above the fore part of the eye. In 

 the New-Guinea individual the forehead is white, extending back- 

 Avards over the eye. The type of R. griseicauda, from Waigiou, how- 

 ever, kindly lent me by Count Salvadori, shows the frontal plumes 

 bro^^■^ with white tips; and as it appears a somewhat changeable 



