4] 8 riciDJc. 



of its occurrence between these localities, llanges in the Burmese 

 Territory into Pegu. 



(I, i. J 5 ad. sk. Kiiladoongi, Dhoon, Sept. 29, Hume Coll. 



1866. 

 c. d ad. \ d,e. 2 Nepal. Hodgson Coll. 



ad. sk. 

 /. 2 .i^"'- ^^- Nepal (B. H. Hodyson). India Museum. 



(J. S "imm. sk. Sikhim Terai, April 20, 1870 Hume Coll. 



(Z. Mandelli). 

 h. 5 ad. sk. Sikhim, Dec. 1875 (L. Man- Hume Coll. 



delli) . 

 i-l. S fith ; wi> "• Bhotau Doars, Dec, Jan., Feb. Hume Coll. 



5 ad. sk. {L. Mandelli). 



0, p. cJ 5 ad. ; q, Thayetmyo, May. Hume Coll. 



r. tS juv. sk. 

 s. $ ad. sk. Burmah {H. Feilden). T^Yeeddale Coll. 



t. c? juv. sk. Arakan Hills, Pegu, June 1873 Hume Coll. 



{E. W. Oates). 



3. Tiga everetti. 



Tiga javanensis {no7i Ljunr/), S/uirpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. 2ud ser. i. 



p. 315 (1877); Tweedd. Mem. ed. n'.-liainsai/, pp. G07, G55, 670 



(1881). 

 Tiga everetti, Tweedd. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 612, pi. xxxvii. J $ ; Sharpe, 



Ibis, 1884, p. 317, 1888, p. 197. 



Adult male, llesembles Tiga javanensis above, but wants the 

 distinct black collar at the base of the hind neck. It, however, 

 difters mainly in having the fore neck and chest olivaceous brown ; 

 the chin and throat rufescent buff, spotted with black ; the feathers 

 of the malar region tipped with red : the feathers of the upper 

 breast margined at the tip with black, and having a broad black 

 squamate marking in the centre ; the remaining underparts trans- 

 versely spotted and barred with black ; under tail-coverts like the 

 under surface of the body, but the lower series are uniform blackish 

 brown, faintly margined with olive ; under wing-coverts olivaceous 

 buff, with black bars and some whitish spots, the axillaries yellowish, 

 barred with black : " iris dark brown ; bill black, basal half of 

 mandible grey ; feet greenish, nails grey " (Everett). Total length 

 10 inches, cnlmen 1''3, wing 5-4, tail 3-5, tarsus 0-9 ; toes (without 

 claws) — outer anterior O'OS, inner anterior 0'58, posterior 0'63. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in having the forehead 

 buflfy brown varied with black, the crown and occiput black, the 

 feathers of the forehead and crown with longitudinal specks of white, 

 the occiput having hair- like stripes of the same, the nuchal crest 

 (only) scarlet; malar region spotted with black and devoid of red. 

 Total length 9*5 inches, culmen 1'25, wing 5-2, tail 3-3, tarsus 0*9. 



Youwj female. Differs from the adult female in having the fore- 

 head more distinctly brownish buff, the crown and occiput uniform 

 black, the nuchal feathers also black, but a few are tipped with red ; 



