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the Eev. H. H. Slater. I find that this bird is not to be specifically 

 separated from A. aJcool, being alike in plumage, but just a trifle 

 larger in size. Total length 10-5 inches, culmen 1-25, wing 5-15, 

 tail 2"3, tarsus 1-95, middle toe and claw 2'1, 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour: " bill green ; the 

 culmen dark brown ; the tip of the lower mandible lavender ; feet 

 dull lake-red ; iris crimson " (A. E. Butler, MSS.). Total length 

 10 inches, culmen 1'3, wing 4*7, tail 2*1. tarsus 1-9. 



Hub. Indian Peninsula generally, ranging eastward to Assam 

 and the Khasia Hills. 



a. Ad. sk. 



b, c. (J 2 ^^- sk. 



d. Ad. sk. 



e. Ad. sk. 

 /. 2 ad. sk. 



ff, h. c? ad. ; i-m. 

 2 ad. et juv. sk. 

 n. Ad. sk. 

 o-q. Ad. sk. 



r. Ad. sk. 

 s. Ad. sk. 

 t. Ad. sk. 

 u. 2 ad. sk. 



V. c? ad. sk. 

 to. Ad. sk. 

 .V. Ad. sk. 

 y. Ad. sk. 

 z, a'. Ad. sk. 

 b'. Ad. sk. 



c'. Ad. sk. 



d', e'. Ad. sk. 



/', ff'- c? $ ad. ; h', 



i'. Pull. sk. 

 k'. 2 ad. sk. 

 I' , m' . Ad. st. 

 n'. Ad. sk. 

 o'. Ad. sk. 

 p'. Ad. sk. 



India. J. E. Reeves, Esq. 



(Type of i?. griseopectus.) 

 Aug., Sept. {E. A. Hume (Joll. 



Deesa 



Butle) 



North-west India (Griffith). 

 Kurki, N . W. Provinces. 

 Mount Aboo, May 2 {E. A. 



Butler). 

 Sambhur, Jan., April, July, 



Dec. {R. M. Adam). 

 Jhansie, Aug. 7. 

 Delhi, Jan., March (C. T. 



Bhxjham). 

 Cashmere, May 5. 

 Dehra Dhoon. 

 Dehra Dhoon. 

 Sewalik Hills, March (JDr. 



IScott). 

 Kumaoii, Jan. 28 {G. Kiny). 

 Kumaon {Strachey). 

 Etawah. 



Nepal lyB. H. Ilodgsoii). 

 Darjiling Terai. 

 Bhotan Doars, Jan. (i. 3Ian- 



delli). 

 Assam {A. W. Chennell) *. 

 Behar. 

 Saugor, Jan., Aug. 



India Museum. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 India Museum. 

 Hume Coll. 

 India Museum. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 Hodgson Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Depalpur, Jan. 9. Col. Swinhoe [P.]. 



Gwalior. C. Maries, Esq. [P.]. 



Deccan (Burgess). Gould Coll. 



Deccan (Colotiel Sgkes). India jMuseum.' 



Western Ghats (Coussmaker). Gould Coll. 



4. Amaurornis phceuicura. 



Poule Sultane de la Chine, Daubent. PI. Enl. ix. pi. 896. 

 La Poule Sultane brune, Buff. H. N. Ois. viii. p. 204 (1781). 

 KaUus phoenicurus, Forster, Zool. Bid. p. 19, pi. 9 (1781 : Ceylon) ; 

 Gm. Sgst. Nat. p. 715 (1788). 



* ? Khasia Hills : cf. Hume, Str. P. xi. p. 328. 



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