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= Birds of the Japanese Empire,' where the difference between the 

 two species has been correctly given. 



In the Hume Collection there are several rufous-coloured birds, 

 which have not yet entirely divested themselves of the wavy im- 

 mature plumage, while a female from Dibrughur is beginning to 

 put on rufous plumage, though it is still for the most part in the 

 mottled dress of the young. The birds from the Nicobars are 

 decidedly smaller and darker than birds from the mainland, and the 

 wing does not exceed 9*5 inches. 



Young. Entirely different from the adult, being brown above, 

 thickly mottled and freckled with dusky blackish, and with longitu- 

 dinal ochraceous shaft-streaks to the feathers of the upper surface ; 

 wings like the back ; primary-coverts for the most jwrt rufous, freckled 

 with dusky, the quills black tipped with white ; primaries with a 

 sub-terminal shade of rufous ; tail-feathers slaty black ; crown of head 

 and nape crested, the feathers black, with arrow-shaped spots or 

 bars of white ; sides of face and sides of neck regularly barred with 

 ochreous brown and black, with mesial white spots on the feathers 

 on the sides of the neck ; chin and upper throat uniform white ; the 

 centre of the lower throat and fore-neck generally pale vinaceous 

 buff, varied with black streaks and black mottling or bars, the 

 feathers being browner laterally ; sides of the body like the breast, 

 similarly mottled and streaked with white ; under tail-coverts white, 

 with scarcely any black markings ; under wiug-covcrts white mottled 

 with dusky ; axillaries barred with black and white. 



Hab. Assam and the Burmese countries to the jS'icobars and 

 Andaman Islands, south through the 3Jalayan Peninsula to Borneo 

 and the Philippines, extending north to Hainan and Formosa. A 

 visitor to Southern India and Ceylon during the N.E. monsoon. 



a. Ad. sk. 

 7;. Ad. sk. 



<•. (5 imm. sk. 



il. Imm. sk. 

 e. Juv. sk. 

 /. (^ juv. sk. 

 </. c? ad. sk. 



h. c? ad. : i. 2 



imm. sk. 

 7c. Ad. sk. 

 I. Juv. sk. 

 wj-ff. Ad. et imm. 



8k. 

 r, s. t. Ad. et imm. 



sk. 

 «. Ad. sk. 

 V. 2 ad. ; 10. S 



juv. sk. 

 x,y. c? 2 ad. sk. 



Coorg {F. Bai/). 



20 miles from Belgaum {E. 



A. Butler). 

 Invercauld, Travancore, " 2500 



feet, in forest," Jan. 3. 

 Ceylon (Nevill). 

 Kandv Lake (A. JMiyte). 

 Colombo, Nov. 10 [Hart). 

 Dipurblieel, As^sam, Mav (A. 



W. Chmnell). 

 Dibrughur, Assam, July, 



Sept. (J. H. Cripps). 

 Dilkusha, Cachar (J. Inglis). 

 Pegu. 

 Malacca {Br. Maingay). 



India Museum. 

 Hume Coll. 



F. Bourdillon, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Hume CoU. 



Hume Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Tweeddale OoU. 



Malacca, July, Sept. ( W. Hume Coll. 



Davison). 

 Malacca. Piiiwill Coll. 



Camorta, Nicobars, Feb., Hume Coll. 



March ( W. Davison). 

 Katchal Inland, Nicobars, Tweeddale CoU. 



Feb. (-R. J. Wimberley). 



