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rump a pale sandy buff slightly washed -with ashy ; upper tail- 

 coverts ashy grey ; wing-coverts ashy grey, the greater series black 

 internally ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills black, slightly 

 edged with ashy near the end of the outer web, the secondaries 

 broadly edged with ashy grey : tail black, except the centre feathers, 

 which are ashy grey with black shafts ; crown of head, sides of face, 

 sides of neck, throat, and chest ashy grey ; breast and abdomen, as 

 well as the under tail-coverts, fawn-buff ; thighs ashy ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries ashy grey ; quills blackish below, 

 browner on the inner web : " bill greyish blue, yellowish at the 

 tip and on the edges ; legs and feet pale fleshy : iris brown " (A. 0. 

 Hume, AISS.). Total length 8-5 inches, culmen 0-95, wing 5-1, 

 tail 3 - 55, tarsus 1. 



Young male. Resembles the adult female, but with the yellow 

 rump and black wings and tail of the adult male ; the back inter- 

 spersed with many black feathers ; the fawn-coloured under surface 

 rather brighter than in the adult male, the feathers of the fore neck 

 and chest obscured with dusky tips ; throat ashy grey, as in the old 

 female, but mottled with the black feathers of the approaching adult 

 plumage : " bill waxy green : legs and feet pale fleshy ; iris hazel. 

 Total length 9-2 inches, wing 5, tail 3*4, tarsus 1*15, bill from gape 

 0-78/' (C. T. Bingham.) 



No perceptible difference is observable between specimens killed 

 in winter and summer, excepting that the bill is much paler in the 

 former season, when it is more yellowish with less blue in both 

 mandibles. A male killed near Simla, on Sept. 11, according to 

 Mr. Hume, had the " legs yellowish fleshy " and the bill " pale 

 horny greenish ; " and a second male from Simla, procured on the 

 8th of October, also had the bill " horny greenish," but the legs 

 were fleshy pink and the " irides reddish brown." 



Old males often have the yellow on the hind neck intensified into 

 orange, and this deeper tint also occasionally pervades the fore neck 

 and chest. The yellow on the back is so arranged that it forms a 

 continuous streak down the mantle, but on examination the feathering 

 will be found to be particoloured, the exterior portion being black, 

 the inner portion yellow. 



Hab. Himalayas, " breeding in the pine-forests south of the 

 first snowy range and west of the Ganges, from 5000 to 9000 feet " 

 (A. O. Hume). 



a. 2 A &- s k- [Himalayas.] Zoological Society. 



(Type of the species.) 



b, c. S 2 ad. sk. Ruttun Pir, Cashmere, May Hume Coll. 



10, 1871 ( W. E. Brooks), 



d. $ ad.sk. Gulmurg, June 6, 1871 (W. Hume Coll. 



E.Brooks). 



e,f. c? 2 ad. sk. Dhurmsala, May 1870. Hume Coll. 



g, h. 3 5 ad. sk. Above Dhurmsala. Capt. Stackhouse 



Pinwill [P.]. 



i, j. S 2 ad. sk. Between Dhurmsala and Capt. Stackhouse 



Chamha. Pinwill [P.], 



