50. URAGUS. 467 



Adult female. Similar to the female of U. sibiricus, but smaller 

 and very much darker, the brown of the uulerparts much deeper. 

 Total length 5-7 inches, cabmen 0-35, wing 2v>, tail 2-8, tarsus 0'65. 



Hab. Eastern Siberia, Manchuria, Japan, and the Kurile Islands. 



a. <$ ad. sk. Vladiowstok, Jan. 19. Dr. Lenz. 



b. J ad. sk. Vladiowstok, Dec. 4. Dr. Lenz. 



c. c? ad. sk. Araoor-Land, March. Dr. Lenz. 



d. 2 ad. sk. Yokohama, Japan. Prof. Milne [C.]. 



e. 2 ad. sk. Hakodadi, Oct. 19, 18(35 ( R. Wkitely). Gould Coll. 



f. 2 ad. sk. Hakodadi, Dec. 31, 1834. H. Whitely [C.]. 



g. J ad. sk. Hakodadi, Nov. G, 1884. H. Whitely [C.]. 



3. Uragus lepidus. 



Uragus lepidus, David Sf Oust. Ok. Chine, p. 359 (1877). 

 Adult male (type of species). General colour above brown, the 

 feathers of the bagk and mantle broadly centred with black and washed 

 with dark crimson ; lower back aud rump uniform deep rosy ; lesser 

 wing-coverts dark rosy, the feathers with blackish bases ; median and 

 greater coverts blackish, edged with ashy and broadly tipped with 

 creamy white, forming a dark wing-bar ; bastard-wing, primary- 

 coverts, and quills dark brown, edged with lighter brown, more ashy 

 on the primaries; inner secondaries broadly edged with ashy white on 

 the outer web ; upper tail-coverts dark ashy ; tail-feathers blackish, 

 edged witli ashy, the two outer feathers white for the most part, 

 except for an oblique blackish mark along the inner web and along 

 the outer web, the external feather white along the outer web, with 

 a blackish shaft ; crown of head ashy brown with a slight rosy tinge, 

 all the feathers mottled with dusky centres ; fore part of tbe head 

 silvery white with a rosy tinge, the feathers slightly mottled with 

 dusky spots; lores and base of forehead dark crimson: eyebrow 

 silvery white, continued from the frontal baud; sides of face, ear- 

 coverts, cheeks, and throat silvery whitish with a rosy tinge, some- 

 what lanceolate on the throat ; sides of neck ashy grey, mixed with 

 rosy spots ; fore neck and breast deep rose-colour, the abdomen dull 

 whitish ; sides of body and flanks sandy brown, streaked with dark 

 brown ; thighs ashy brown ; under tail-coverts whitish, tinged with 

 rosy ; under wing-coverts ashy whitish, washed with rosy ; axillaries 

 white : quiUs below dusky, ashy whitish along the inner edge. 

 Total length 5-8 inches, culmen 0-35, wing 2-6, tail 2-4, tarsus 0-6. 

 (Mus. Paris.) 



Differs from the other species of Uragus in having the crown 

 mottled with dusky bases to the feathers, less broad bands of white 

 on the wings, and also by its brown flanks, which are streaked with 

 blackish brown. 



The female resembles that of U. sanguinolentus, but is more ashy 

 and has none of the tawny tinge on the lower back and rump which 

 is seen on the last-named species ; the sides of the body and flanks 

 are also brown, streaked with blackish brown, more coarsely than 

 in U. sanguinolentus. Total length o - 5 inches, culmen 035, wing 

 2-55, tail 2-65, tarsus 0-65. (Mus. Paris.) 

 Hab. China. 



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