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sooty black, washed with deep vinous like the nape and hind neck ; 

 forehead and sinciput deep vinous crimson ; lores sooty blackish as 

 well as the feathers round the eye ; above the ear-coverts a broad 

 band of rosy vinous ; upper edge of ear-coverts and sides of neck 

 like the back ; feathers below the eye, cheeks, and greater part of 

 ear-coverts rosy vinous, the throat deeper coloured and more vinous 

 crimson ; fore neck, chest, and breast sooty black, washed with deep 

 vinous ; abdomen deep rosy ; sides of breast, side9 of body, and 

 flanks sooty brown, the latter washed with vinous ; thighs brown ; 

 under tail-coverts pale rosy with dusky centres : under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries sooty blackish, washed with vinous, especially on the 

 edge of the wing ; quills below dusky, ashy along the inner edge : 

 " bill dusky, darker on the culmen and greyish at the base of the 

 lower mandible ; feet fleshy brown ; toes a shade darker than the 

 tarsi; claws horny brown; iris dark brown " (/. Scully). Total 

 length 5 - 8 inches, culmen 045, wing 3 - 5, tail 2'35, tarsus 08. 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 dark brown, with black centres to the feathers of the mantle and 

 upper back, which are also slightly washed with dull ochreous 

 brown on the margins ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median 

 and greater coverts dark brown, edged with dull ochreous brown, 

 paler at the ends of the outer webs and forming a double wing-bar : 

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills dark brown, edged with 

 ochreous brown, the inner secondaries paler ochreous near the end 

 of the outer webs, like the greater coverts ; rump and upper tail- 

 coverts uniform brown, washed with ochreous brown ; tail-feathers 

 dark brown, with dull ochreous-brown margins ; crown of head 

 dusky brown, slightly washed with ochreous ; lores, feathers round 

 the eye, ear-coverts, cheeks, throat, and under surface of body dull 

 brown, slightly washed with ochreous ; the lower breast and abdo- 

 men i^aler and clearer whity brown ; sides of body and flanks dull 

 brown like the breast ; thighs brown ; under tail-coverts pale 

 ochreous brown with dusky brown centres ; under wing-coverts aud 

 axillaries dusky, edged with ochreous brown ; quills below dusky, 

 ashy along the inner edge : " bill dusky, the base of the lower 

 mandible paler brownish ; tarsi and toes dingy brownish fleshy, 

 claws horny brown ; iris dark brown " (J. Sadly). Total length 

 5 - 5 inches, culmen - 45, wing 3 - 3, tail 2-25, tarsus 0*8. 



Young male. Resembles the old female, but is a little more reddish 

 brown : " bill dusky, darker above and lighter at the base of the 

 lower mandible " («/. Scully). Total length 6-3 inches, culmen 045, 

 wing 3 - 4, tail 2-5, tarsus 0-35. 



The Western specimens are much paler than those from Sikhim, 

 not so black above, and not showing the same dusky patch on the 

 chest, the fore neck being brown with a rosy wash. Some of the 

 Nepal, and a few even of the Sikhim specimens are so intermediate 

 that it is not possible to characterize the Western race even as a 

 distinct subspecies. 



Hah. Himalayas, from Cashmere to Bootan, extending into 

 Moupin in Western China. 



