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lesser wing-coverts black ; median and greater series white, with 

 concealed blackish bases to the latter ; bastard-wing black ; pri- 

 mary-coverts and quills black, edged with white, the secondaries 

 much more broadly margined with white ; tail-feathers black, the 

 two outer ones white with a broad edging of black on the inner 

 web ; crown of head liko the back ; a broad frontal line as well 

 as the sides of the crown white, forming a broad white eyebrow ; 

 the lores and feathers below and behind the eye white ; a line of 

 black from the gape to the ear-coverts, which are also black ; 

 cheeks white, separated from the throat by an obsolete malar 

 line of black ; lower throat black, mottled with white bases to the 

 feathers, the whole of the fore neck and chest black ; remainder 

 of under surface of body pure white, without any shade of ashy ; 

 thighs, under tail-coverts, axillaries, and under wing-coverts white ; 

 quills dusky below, with a great deal of white along the inner web. 

 Total length 8 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 3-9, tail 3'8, tarsus 0*85. 



Young. General colour above dark ashy grey, with a slight wash 

 of olive-brown ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median and 

 greater coverts white, with a naiTow mesial streak of dark brown 

 on the former, the latter with broad blackish bases ; bastard-wing, 

 primary-coverts, and quiUs blackish, narrowly edged with white, 

 much more broadly on the secondaries, the innermost of which are 

 browner ; tail-feathers black, the centre ones edged with ashy white, 

 the two outer ones white, black at the base and along the edge of 

 the inner web ; head like the back, a little paler on the forehead, 

 with a slight appearance of black over the eye and on the crown ; 

 lores ashy whitish : o\er the ear-coverts a broad streak of yellowish 

 white, extending below the eye ; ear-coverts and cheeks dusky 

 brown mixed with black ; throat and chest duU ashy tinged with 

 brown ; remainder of under surface of body white, including the 

 axHlaries and under wing-coverts. 



The adult female seems to be like the male in the facial and throat 

 markings, but the back is dusky ash-colour instead of black. 



In the winter plumage the back is ashy grey, and the black back 

 is assumed by a change of colour in the feathers. The black throat 

 is gradually assumed, and is apparently a long time in being fully 

 developed. The black ear-coverts are constant. 



Hab. Throughout the Himalayas, where it is resident, extending 

 into Turkestan to the west and to Teuasserim in the south, and to 

 Western China in the eastern portion of its range. 



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