28. CALT.ACANTHIS. 233 



pale cinnamon-brown ; the throat, fore neck, and breast brighter 

 rose-colour ; the chin dusky blackish ; abdomen ochreous buff ; sides 

 of body and flanks cinnamon-brown, washed with rosy ; thighs 

 ashy brown ; under tail-coverts pale cinnamon-brown, with dusky 

 bases ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, with ash)- bases, 

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

 inner edge. Total length 6'5 inches, culmen 055, wing 3 - 9, tail 2-5, 

 tarsus 0-75. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in being much paler and 

 more ochreous-brown ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median 

 coverts dusky blackish, washed with ochreous-brown, with pale 

 ochreous spots at the tips : greater coverts, bastard-wing, primary- 

 coverts, and quills blackish, externally washed with ochre and all 

 tipped with white ; tail as in the male, but the white on the outer 

 feathers not so extended ; head dusky brown ; frontal band, eye- 

 brow, and feathers round the eye saffron-yellow ; ear-coverts dusky 

 brown, washed with ochreous-buff, with pale ochreous shaft-lines ; 

 cheeks and under surface of body pale ashy brown, washed with 

 ochreous, the throat and fore neck washed with yellow ; axillaries 

 and under wing-coverts ochreous-buff, with ashy bases. Total length 

 6 - 5 inches, culmen 065, wing 3 - 9, tail 2-3, tarsus 0-85. 



Hab. North-western Himalayas from Cashmere to the neighbour- 

 hood of Naini Tal. 



a, b. c? ad. sk. Cashmere. Purchased. 



c. $ ad. sk. Gulmurg, Cashmere, Hunie Coll. 



Aug. 1874. 



d. J ad. sk. Gulmurg, June 1871 Hume Coll. 



( W. E. Brooks). 



e. $ ad. sk. Sonarrnurg, July 16, Hume Coll. 



1874. . 

 /. J ad. sk. Mum, 1868 (C. H. T. Hume Coll. 



Marshall), 

 g. cJ ad. sk. Chamba, Jan. 20, 1880 Hume Coll. 



(C. H. T.Marshall). 

 h. (J ad. sk. Kotegurh, near Simla. Hume Coll. 



t, k. J ? ad. sk. Bussahir, N.W. Hima- Hume Coll. 



layas, Dec. 6, 1869. 

 /. $ ad. sk. Fagoo, near Simla. Hume Coll. 



m, n. 3 5 a d. sk. Between Simla, and Capt. Stackhouse Pimvill 



Mussoori. [P-]- 



o,p, q. d ; r, s. $ Naini Tal, Oct. 1869 (M. Hume Coll. 



ad. sk. Thompson). 



t. [ $ ad.] st. Himalaya Mountains. Purchased. 



29. LOXIMITRIS*. 



Type. 



Loximitris, Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soe. 2V. IT. xi. p. 93 



(1866) L. dominicensis. 



Range. San Domingo. 



* No specimen of this genus has been at my disposal, so I have been obliged 

 to copy the information given by Mr. Cory. 



