430 FRIXGILLID^E. 



dull rosy, and with ruddy brown on the secondaries, the inner ones 

 being edged with ashy whitish near the tip ; upper tail-coverts 

 brown tinged with rosy, centred with black : tail-feathers dark 

 brown, edged with ruddy brown ; crown of head like the back and 

 similarly streaked with black, but a little more tinged with rosy ; 

 lores dusky ; base of forehead and eyebrow pale rosy with a pearly 

 gloss, streaked with black on the anterior portion of the eyebrow ; 

 ear-coverts, sides of face, and cheeks rosy with a pearly gloss, 

 surmounted by a dark-brown stripe above the ear-coverts ; throat 

 and under surface of body rosy, with a pearly gloss on the throat 

 and fore neck, with black shaft-lines ; the breast and abdomen 

 with crimson reflexions, the latter uniform ; sides of body and 

 flanks brown, streaked with black ; thighs brown ; under tail- 

 coverts rosy, streaked with black, the long ones edged with whitish 

 at the tips ; under wing-coverts rosy, centred with black, the longer 

 ones whitish ; axillaries pale rosy ; quills below dusky, ashy along 

 the inner edge. Total length 7 - 5 inches, culmen 0*45, wing 3-05, 

 tail 2 - 4, tarsus 07. 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 ruddy brown, streaked with black centres to the feathers ; lesser 

 wing-coverts like the back ; median and greater series blackish, 

 margined with light reddish brown, paler at the tips of the feathers ; 

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

 the inner secondaries with pale reddish brown like the greater 

 coverts ; rump a little more uniform than the back, but the upper 

 tail-coverts ruddy brown with black centres ; tail-feathers dark 

 brown, margined with paler brown ; crown of head like the back, 

 and streaked with black in the same manner ; on each side of the 

 crown an eyebrow of creamy white, narrowly streaked with black ; 

 this light streak commencing above the eye and extending to the 

 sides of the occiput ; sides of face, ear-coverts, and cheeks pale tawny 

 buff streaked with black, with a broad line of dark brown along the 

 upper edge of the ear-coverts : throat and under surface of body 

 pale tawny buff, paler on the throat and whiter on the lower 

 abdomen, which is the only part which is not distinctly streaked 

 with black ; thighs brown ; under tail-coverts pale tawny buff, 

 whiter at the ends, with blackish centres ; axillaries and under 

 wing-coverts pale tawny buff, with ashy bases ; quills dusky below, 

 ashy along the base of the inner web. Total length 55 inches, 

 culmen 0-45, wing 3, tail 2-2, tarsus 0-7. 



Hob. Himalaya from Kumaon to Sikhim, and thence to Western 

 China. 



a. rf ad. sk. Himalayas. Gould Coll. 



b. rf ad. sk. Kumaon (Strachey). India Museum. 



c. cf ad. sk. Dolaka, Nepal, Dec. 1875 (L. Hume Coll. 



Mandelli). 



d. e. $ ad. ; f-l. Dolaka, Nepal, Jan. 1875 (L. Hume Coll. 

 2 ad. sk. Mandelli). 



m,n. J $ ad.sk. Dolaka, Nepal, Feb. 1876 (L. Hume Coll. 

 Mandelli). 



