21. BUT0RIBE8. 



179 



{E. W. Oates). Total length 19 inches, culmon 2-75, wing 7, 

 tail 2%'5, tarsus 2, middle toe and claw 2-1. 



Adult female. Exactly like the male, but a trifle more dingy, 

 especially in the throat-markings, wliere the brown is a little more 

 distinct on the margins of the feathers. Total length 18 inches, 

 culmen 2*4, wing 6-8, tail 2-7o, tarsus 1-8, middle toe and claw 2. 



Whiter plumacje. Duller than in summer and much greener above, 

 without any grey shading; the head green. 



Young. Brown above ; the wing-coverts with triangular whitish 

 or sandy -buff' spots at their ends ; the head black, streaked with 

 ochreous-buff shaft-lines ; sides of face and under surface of body 

 whitish, strongly streaked with dusky-blackish margins to the 

 feathers. 



The young bird is browner than the adults, with white mesial 

 streaks on the wing-coverts ; crown of head dusky black ; under 

 surface of body less grey and washed with brown. 



Hah. Indian Peninsula and Ceylon, the Burmese countries and 

 China to the Yangtse lliver, Formosa, Philippines, Malayan Penin- 

 sula, Borneo, Java, Sumatra, and Celebes ; the Mascarene Islands 

 and Diego Garcia. 



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r, s. $ ad. et juv. 



sk. 

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ad. ; 10. Juv. sk. 

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n'-d' . Ad.etjiiv.sk. 

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h' . (S ad. sk. 

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 k' , I' . Ad. ; m' , n . 



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 q . Ad. sk. 

 r', s'. Ad. sk. 

 t'. c? ad. et juv. ; 



«'. 2 juv. sk. 

 v. 5 ad. sk. 



Sikhim, Nov., Jan., Feb. (Z 



Mandelli). 

 Native Sikhim, Jan. (i. 



Mandelli). 

 Nepal. 



Nepal {B. H. Hodgson). 



Kumaon (Strachey). 



Kuiiiaon IShahur, Jan. 25 

 (G. KiiKj). 



Cashmere. 



Larkhana, Sind, Jan. o {A. 

 O. H.). 



Hvdrabad, Sind, June, Sept. 

 {E. A. Butler). 



Etawab. 



Futtehgurh, July 2 {A. An- 

 derson). 



Gondah, Oudh. 



Behar. 



Dinapore. 



Dinapore, Oct, 24 (W. E. 

 Brooks). 



Sumbalpur, Jan. 2. 



Mhow, Oct. 18. 



Sanger, Jan. 



Seoui. 



Deccan (Sykes). 



Khandeish. 



Dhulia, Oct., Jau. (/. Bund- 

 son). 



Koma River, near Pan, Mav 

 20 {S. B. Fail-hank). 



. Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hodgson Coll. 

 (Types of E. chloriceps.) 

 India Museum. 

 India Museum. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Pinwill Coll. 

 Hodgson Coll. 

 Pinwill Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Colonel Swiuhoe [P.]. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 India Museum. 

 India Museum. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



