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Key to the Sjiecies. 



a. Bill uniform red or yellow, ciilmen black 



towards tip, but no black base to lower 



mandible; rump white or whitish, lighter 



than the rest of the back; abdomen white, 



not vinaceous or rufous; no grey tips to 



primaries. 



a'. Throat blackish or dark ashy, with white 



streaks ; fore neck and breast uniform dark 



ashy or blackish ; sides of body browTier ; 



head blackish, more or less streaked with 



Avhite ; no white shaft-lines on back. 



a". Eump white; white tips to the tail- 



, , -Leathers cineraceus, p. 41. 



. J\ o white on the rump ; no white tips to 



the tail-feathers colktti, v,. 43,. 



b . Ihroat white like the abdomen ; head white 

 or ashy white ; back brown, with whitish 

 7 T,-n ^li''^ft-li"es. serieem, p. 44. 



b. Jjill yellow, with no black base ; back grey ; 



rump pale vinaceous: head all round and 

 entire sides of face and under surface of body 



vinaceous . . camlodianus, p. 44. 



c liill red or yellow, but the lower mandible 

 having a black base, so that the bill is parti- 

 coloured in skin. 

 c'. Under tail-coverts and tips of tail-feathers 

 white or buff, not chestnut ; grey tips to 

 primaries absent or very indistinct. 

 c". Vinaceous underneath. 



«'". No vinous collar round the hind neck : 



,,„ ^ °o ^^'liite rump hurmanicus, p. 45. 



b . A vinous collar round the hind neck : 



^„ ^ a y.^'te rump hucocephalus, p. 46. 



d J^ure white below andamamnsis, p. 47. 



W. Under tail-co verts and tips of tail-feathers 

 chestnut ; primaries without a grey terminal 

 spot ; rump chestnut, contrasting with the 



ashy back and white head erythropygius, p. 48. 



e'. Under tail-co verts and tips of tail-feathers 

 chestnut ; primaries with a broad grey spot 

 on the end. 

 e". Head ashy grey, with pale shaft-streaks ; 

 the head, neck, and throat sometimes 

 bleaching to whiteness ; rufous of under 

 surface extending to the throat. 

 c'". First primary and bastard-wing black, malaharicus, p 48 

 d"' Jirst primary and bastard-wing white, nemoricolus, p. 52 

 f . Head and breast pure white, sharply 

 defined, and contrasting with the chest- 

 nut abdomen and the grey back blythii, p. 54. 



1. Poliopsar cineraceus. 



Sturnus cineraceus, Tcmm. PI. Col. ii. pi. 556 (IS-^r) • id &■ Schl 

 Faun. Japon., Aves, p. >ib, pi. 45 (igSQ) ; Bp. Cunsp. i. p. 421 



