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body pale ashy brown, the feathers edged with greyish white on the 

 lower breast and sides of body ; breast rather more ashy, with some 

 dusky-brown streaks on the sides of the upper part of it ; abdomen 

 whitish ; thighs pale ashy ; under tail-coverts white, mottled with 

 dusky-blackish centres ; under wing-coverts and axillaries ashy 

 whitish, with dusky bases ; quills below dusky, ashy along the 

 inner edge : " upper mandible brown, except a spot at the base of 

 the forehead, which is brownish fleshy ; lower mandible brownish 

 fleshy, the tip and sides brown ; legs, feet, and claws blackish brown ; 

 iris cinnabar-red " ( W. Davison). Total length 6 inches, culmen 

 OS, wing 3-85, tail 2-5, tarsus 0*75. 



Adult female. Scarcely different from the male, but has the grey 

 of the rump washed with brown. Total length G inches, culmen 

 0-5, wing 3 - 75, tail 2-2, tarsus 0*75. 



Young. Differs from the adults only in being much more rufous, 

 the lower back and rump being more ashy, the wing-coverts tipped 

 with fulvous ; the head is dark rufous, mottled with blackish 

 centres to the feathers ; sides of face and under surface of body 

 deep rufous, whitish in the centre of the abdomen. 



The young birds after their first moult are like the adults, but have 

 the head and ear-coverts uniform tawny rufous, and from this stage the 

 full plumage is apparently gained by a direct moult, as several red- 

 headed specimens exhibit traces of the approaching stripes on the head. 



Dr. Stoliczka affirms that the adult female is the bird with the 

 uniform crown ; but Mr. Hume's collection contains several males 

 in this stage of plumage, and also many in a state of transition from 

 the uniform crown to the striped one of the adult. 



Hub. From the Altai Mountains to Kashgar, Western Thibet, 

 Afghanistan, and the North-western Himalayas as far as Kumaon. 



a, b, c. Ad. sk. 



d. Ad. sk. 



e. c? ad. ; /. $ ad. ; 

 </, h. d 5 imm. sk 



i. $ ad. sk. 

 k. $ ad. sk. 

 /. $ ad. sk. 



m. Ad. sk. 



n. Juv. sk. 



o. Ad. sk. 



p, q, r. <$ imm. sk. 



s. Ad. sk. 



t-y. Ad. ; z-k '. Inini. 



sk. 

 l',m'. Ad. ; ri '. .Juv. 



sk. 

 o'. Imm. sk. 



p',q',r',s',t'. <S ad. ; 

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Kashgar (Br. Belleiv). 



Thibet. 



Gilgit, Feb. 1878 (J. 



Biddwlph |. 

 Gilgit, Feb. 24, 1879. 

 Gilgit, Feb. 14, 1879. 

 Pir Fungal, Cashmere, May 



12, 1871 ( W. E. Brooks). 

 Chamba, Jan. 1882 (C //. 



T. Marshal/). 

 Sutley Valley. 

 Narkunda, Dec. 1868. 

 North of Simla (Dr. Stoliczka) 



Kuhi (Major Hay). 



Jural in Kunaitee, Dec. 1870. 



Totulee in Kotekhaie, Feb. 



27, 1871. 

 Fumlahi, near Kotegurh, 



Julv 17, 1869. 



Simla', Nov. 1880 ( IV. 

 Davison). 



India Museum. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Dr. J. Scully [P.]. 

 Col. Biddulph [C.]. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 1 1 nine Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



(Types of species.) 

 Gould Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



