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quills dusky black, tlie outer webs of tbe primaries spotted with 

 white, more or less smoky ; the inner webs of the quills (except on 

 the apical portion of the primaries) spotted with pure white ; shafts 

 dark brown ; tail black, the central pair of feathers spotted upon 

 both webs with greyish, and margined at the base with olive ; shafts 

 black ; nasal plumes black ; base of forehead dark slaty grey ; crown 

 crimson, the outer edge, also the occiput and nape, black, the fea- 

 thers having theii- bases and basal margin grey and more or less 

 exposed, and having a striped character ; face leaden grey, with a 

 black spot in front of the eye, the malar region broadly striped 

 with or almost entirely black ; chin and throat buffy white ; side 

 of the neck and the whole of the under surface of the body and 

 under tail-coverts uniform olive ; under wing-coverts and axiHaries 

 white barred with black, the edge of the wing washed with yellow. 

 Total length 12-5 inches, culmen 1-65, wing 5"55, tail 4-15, tarsus 

 1-2 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0-8, outer posterior 0-75, 

 inner anterior 0-67, inner posterior 0-4. 



Tonne/ male. Has a central spot of orange-red upon the forehead : 

 the face mouse-grey ; the chin and throat with transverse dusky 

 spots ; the sides of the body, flanks, and thighs having dusky olive 

 spots and transverse markings of didl yellowish white ; the secon- 

 dary quills with the faintest trace of dusky-green bars, and the 

 central pair of tail-feathers more distinctly barred. Otherwise like 

 the adult, but duller in colour. 



Adult female. Has no red on the crown, this being black like the 

 occiput and nape, the grey basal margins of the feathers showing, 

 and giving a striped appearance to the top of the head. Total 

 length 12'5 inches, cidmen 1'45, wing 5-6, tail 3-8, tarsus 1-2. 



jyestlinr/ (apparently female). Has all the tail-feathers barred, 

 but very faintly ; the flanks and thighs broadly barred with blackish. 

 In other respects much resembling the young male described. 



Hab. Cashmere, throughout the Himalayas, also in Yunnan, 

 Cachar, Assam, south into the central portion of the province of 

 Tenasserim, and in 8iam, Cambodia (Uannaad), and also in South 

 Cochin China {Pierre). 



a. (J ad. sk. Cashmere. E. M. Lang- 



worthy, Esq. 

 [P.]. 



b. 2 ad. sk. Cashmere (Dr. Belleic). India Museum, 

 e. 2 ad. sk. Murree. Col. "Way [P.]. 



d. $ ad. sk. Kotekbaie, Feb. 20, 1871. Hume Coll. 



e. (S ad. sk. Kotegurh. Hume Coll. 



f. 2 ad. sk. Fagoo, Simla, Aug. 17, 1868 Hume Coll. 



{A. 0. H.). 



(J, h. <S ad. ; i. 2 Middle range of hills north of Hume Coll. 



ad. sk. Masuri. 



Jc. 2 ad. sk. Masuri. Hume Coll. 



/, m, 71. S ad. sk. Naiui Tal, Sept. 18G6. Hume Coll. 



0. 2 ad. sk. Almorah, Oct. 29, 1866. • Hume Coll. 



Pj ?• 2 ad. sk. Kaladoongi, Sept. 1866. Hume Coll. 



r, s. d ? ad. sk. Siwalik Range. Hume CoU. 



