2. LiMOxiDRoirtrs. 533 



P. Z. S. 1871, p. 364; IToldsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 458; Walden, 

 Ibis, 1874, p. 239 ; Salrad. Ucc. Born. p. 2()1 (1874) ; Hume 

 Sir. F. 1874, p. 239, 1875, p. 142 ; Blyth ^- Wald. B. Burm. p. 16 

 (1875) ; Bourd. Str. F. 1876, p. 401 ; Tacz. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 

 ii. p. 151 (187G) ; David ^ Oustal. Ois. Chine, p. 305 (1878) ; Hume 

 (§• Davison, Str. F. 1878, p. 3r,4; Bait, Str. F. 1878, vol. ii. p. 219; 

 Lef/ffe, B. Cei/Ion, p. 614 (1879) ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, pp. 65, 103 ; 

 Vidai, Str. F. 1880, p. 69 ; Bingham, t. c. p. 189 ; Oates, B. Brit. 

 Burm. i. p. 164 (1883) ; Damson, Str. F. 1883, p. 397. 

 Nemorivaga indica, Fitz. Sitz. Akad. Wien, xlvi. p. 220 (1864). 



Adult male. General colour above olive-brown, the upper tail- 

 coverts blackish, the lateral ones pale ashy olive-bro-wn with whitish 

 margins ; lesser wing-coverts like the back, the lower ones mottled 

 with black bases ; median and greater series blackish, broadly 

 tipped with yellowish white, browner on the inner greater coverts : 

 bastard-wing and primary-coverts blackish ; quills blackish brown, 

 with a yeUowish-white base to the outer web of the primaries 

 and inner secondaries, followed by a second bar of yellowish white 

 formed by the markings on the outer webs at about two thirds 

 of their length ; innermost secondaries olive-brown, darker brown 

 on the inner web ; two central tail-feathers ashy brown, washed 

 externally with olive; remainder of the tail-feathers blackish, 

 obsoletely tipped with white ; outer tail-feathers white, with an 

 oblique mark of dark brown on the inner web, the outer web 

 slightly washed with olive-brown ; penultimate feather dark brown, 

 with the terminal third of the inner web white, the outer web 

 olive, whitish at the extreme tip ; crown of head a little more 

 dingy than the back, with a dusky blackish line along the sides 

 of the crown above the eyebrow, which extends from the base 

 of the nostrils ; lores and eyelid also yellowish white ; ear-coverts 

 olive-brown, mixed with white on the lower part : cheeks white, 

 extending on to the sides of the neck ; under surface of body entirely 

 white, tinged faintly with yellow on the breast, thighs, and under 

 tail-coverts ; across the fore ueck a crcscentic band of black, ex- 

 tending upwards towards the hinder cheeks in the form of blackish- 

 tipped feathers ; on the sides of the upper breast a second crescentic 

 band of black, not meeting in the centre ; axillaries white, washed 

 with olive-yellow ; under wing-coverts dull white, washed with 

 olive, those near the edge of the wing mottled with dusky bases ; 

 the lower greater coverts dusky brown ; quills below dusky, with a 

 good deal of white on the inner webs, forming a Y-shaped mark on 

 the under surface of the quills : " upper mandible dark brown, 

 lower mandible fleshy pink ; legs, feet, and claws flesh-colour ; iris 

 deep brown" {Davison). Total length 6-6 inches, eulmen 0-55, 

 wing 3-1, tail 2-85, tarsus 0-85. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour. Total length 

 5-8 inches, eulmen 0-55, wing 3, tail 2-6, tarsus 0-8. 



Tiiere seems to be no difference in the winter and summer 

 plumages of this species. 



Hah. Eastern Siberia and Xorthcm China, ranging in winter 

 into the Indian peninsula and Ceylon, the Andaman Islands, Bur- 



