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the greater part of the inner web, the innermost secondaries brown 

 like the back ; lower back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and centre tail- 

 feathers brown like the back; the outer feathers with a black bar 

 at the ends, preceded by a bar of white, before which is a narrow 

 blackish bar ; crown of head and neck ashy brown like the back, with 

 narrow blackish shaft-lines; base of forehead and lores white, extend- 

 ing in a band across the sides of the face to the hinder cheeks ; above 

 the eye a line of white, extending backwards above the ear-coverts 

 to the sides of the neck ; above this a baud of black ; below the eye 

 a white patch, followed by a line of black, running to the black ear- 

 coverts ; from the angle of the mouth a black line along the upper 

 line of the cheeks ; the latter, as well as the under surface of the 

 body white, with an isabelline tinge on the lower throat and fore 

 neck ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pure white, the lower 

 greater coverts tipped with black ; lower surface of quills white, the 

 tips black : " edges of eyelids, bill, and nostrils yellow ; remainder 

 of bill black ; feet plumbeous white, claws black ; iris yellow " ( E. 

 IT. Oateg). Total length 19 inches, eulmen 3, wing 10*3, tail 

 4 - 75, tarsus 3*1. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour: "bill black, the 

 region of the nostrils, gape, and base of lower mandible pale green ; 

 feet very pale bluish green ; iris greenish yellow " ( W. Davison). 

 Total length 20 inches, eulmen 3 - 05, wing 10-3, tail 4*3, tarsus 3 - 25. 



Hab. Rivers of the Indian Peninsula from Bind, south to Ceylon, 

 and eastwards to the Burmese countries, as far south as Tenasserim. 



a. $ ad. sk. River .Iheluni, near Sharpur, Hume Coll. 



Sind, Nov. 26 (A. O. H.). 



b. Ad. sk. Sirza district, Punjab. Hume Coll. 



c. <3 ad. sk. Gurgaon district, March 21 Hume Coll. 



( W. N. Chill). 



d. Ad. sk. Delhi. Hume Coll. 

 e ~i- 6 ? ad. sk. River Jumna, near Etawah, Hume Coll. 



Dec. 

 k. $ ad. sk. River Jumna, March (Dr. Tweeddale Coll. 



Scott). 

 I, m. Ad. sk. Nepal. Hodgson Coll. 



(Tvpes of Carvanaca grisea. ) 

 n, o,p. Ad. sk. Nepal (B. H. Rodysnn). India Museum. 



q. <3 ad. sk. Futtehgurh, March 13 Hume Coll. 



(A. Anderson), 

 r, s. Ad. sk. Bhotan Dooars, Feb., Mav Hume Coll. 



(L. Mamlelli). 

 t. Ad. sk. Bhotan (Pemberton). India Museum. 



u. Ad. sk. Assam (McClelland). India Museum. 



*'» iv- d 2 ad. sk. Khandeish, April, Nov. Hume Coll. 



(J. Davidson). 

 .r. Ad. sk. Shemogah district, April 20 Hume Coll. 



(G. F. L. Marshall), 

 y. Ad. sk. Ceylon. Tweeddale Coll. 



z. 2 ad. sk. Kvasoo Creek, Burmah, Tweeddale Coll. 



Oct. (R. G. W. R. '. 

 a'. 2 ad. sk. Sittang Valley, Dec. 2d Tweeddale Coll. 



(i?. G. W. AM 



