13. MIRAFKA. (515 



reddish to yeUowish brown" (W. V. Le,/ge). Total length 5-6 

 inches, cnlmen 0-55, wing 3-3, tail 1-9, tarsus 1-09. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but smaller. Total length 

 &-3mches, culmen 0-55, wing 3-1, tail 1-65, tarsus 1-05 



Bab. Ceylon and Southern India as high as Maunbhoom. 

 a. d ad. sk. Trincomalie, Ceylon, Oct. 9. Colonel W. V. Legge 



r ah" t' S'^"!"°- GoiddColl. 



c Ad. sk. Ceylon. Tweeddale Coll 



^, e. c? ? ad. sk. Cohimbo, Ceylon, Nov. (fi-a,-<). Hume Coll. 



/, ff, h. Ad. sk. Aujango, Travancore. Hume Coll 



I. <S ad. sk. Eastern base of Palaui Hills, Hume CoU' 



June 7 (6'. B. Fairbank). 



Z \ri^ < n°'''"^- X ^ Tweeddale Coll. 



m. S ad. sk. Coonoor, Jan. {Br. Day). Hume Coll. 



n-q S\ r-u. $ Mysore, March, May ( W. Hume Coll. 



ad. sk. Daviso7i). 



V, 20. 2 ad. sk. Muddur, Mysore, July ( JF. R. B. Sharpe, Esq 



Uavison). rp i ^ 



Z' o ^3" "f- Sf,°^^^°J^^' ^®Pt- (^- ^- W- ^•)- Tweeddale Coll. 



y. $ ad sk ElIore,Feb. Hume Coll. 



z-e^ ad. ; f'W. Madras, March. Hume Coll. 



Ad. sk. 



k', I'. Ad. sk. Madras. T.C.Jerdon,Esq.[P,]. 



m'. d ad. sk. St. Thomas' Mount, Madras, ^'Oa't's CoU.' '^''""^ 



March. 

 «', o', p'. Ad. sk. Maunbhoom, Feb., April (R. C. Tweeddale Coll. 

 Beavun). 



Subsp. a. Mirafra microptera. 



Mirafra microptera, Ilmne, Str. F. i. p. 483 (1873), viii. p. 108 (1879). 

 Mirafra aihms (jiec Jerd.), Bhjth ^ Wald. B. Bunn. p. 95 (1875) • 

 Uates, Handb, B. Br. Bunn. i. p. 376 (1883). 



Adult maU. Similar to Mirafra affinis, but smaller and rather 

 purer white below: "bill, lower mandible and margins of the upper 

 very light pinkish flesh-colour, remainder of upper mandible dark 

 horn-colour; legs light flesh-colour; claws pinkish; iris hazel" 

 (A. W. Oates). Total length 5 inches, culmen Q-G, wing 2-0-2-8 

 tail 1-75, tarsus 0-9. ' 



The Cochin China specimens are in worn and dark plumage, and 

 1 am not quite certain that they are identical with M. microptera 

 ihe wing measures 2-8-2-9 inches. 

 Bab. Thayetmyo district, Burmah, extending to Cochin China. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Palow, Thayetmyo, May 26 Hume Coll. 



A A.:i 1 {E.W. Oates). [T^yVBoi M.viicroptera.) 



b, c. Ad. sk. Thayetmyo, July, Oct. (^. W. Hume Coll. ' 



Oates). 



d, e cS 2 ad. sk. Thayetmyo, Sept. riE.<?.TF.i?.). Tweeddale Coll. 



/. Ad. sk. baigon, Cochin China, May. M. E. Pierro 



ff, h. Ad. sk. Baria, Cochin China, July. M E Pierre 



