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female of the present species. Colonel Legge does not describe this 

 sex, and the only ornithologist who appears to have really known 

 it is Mr. E. W. Oates, who in his ' liirds of Burmah' gives a full 

 description. 



It will be seen that the above description agrees very closely to 

 that given by Mr. Oates of the adult female, with the exception 

 that the eyebrow and sides of face are described by him as being 

 pale reddish brown. Those which have the sides of the face 

 yellowish brown streaked with black, like the one he described, are 

 probably younger birds, and those which have these parts uniform 

 rufous arc older birds. It must not be overlooked that a female 

 from Sadhya and another from Laynah are both in a cinnamon 

 plumage, and exactlj- resemble the adult males. A bird in the 

 striped plumage from San Mateo, and determined by Mr. Everett 

 to be a female, is apparently moulting into the chestnut-backed 

 plumage : although there is no evidence that the female becomes 

 cinnamon like the male, it must not be forgotten that the majority 

 of striped specimens have been determined, by excellent collectors, 

 to be young birds. 



Hah. From Amurland to China and Formosa, but not in Japan ; 

 the Burmese countries, Indian Peninsula, and Ceylon ; Malacca ; 

 Malayan Archipelago to the Philippines and Celebes, 



a. c? ad. sk. 

 h,c. d ; d-h. 2 

 ad.et.juv.sk. 

 i, k. S ? ad. sk. 

 l-o. (S ad. ; 2>- 



2 ad. sk. 

 q. Iinm. sk. 

 r. Ad. sk. 

 s. S ftd. sk. 



t, u. (S ad. et 



juv. sk. 

 V. c? ad. sk. 

 w. S ad. sk. 

 X, y, z. fS ad. 



sk. 

 a'. Imm. sk. 

 b', c'. c? ad. et 



juv. sk. 

 d'-h'. (S ad. ; 



i'. 9 ad. sk. 

 k', I. 2 ad. sk. 

 m'. (S ad. sk. 

 n', o'. cf ad. ; 



p',q',r'. 2 ad 



et juv. sk. 

 «'. Imm. sk. 

 t'. (J ad. sk. 



Ceylon. 



Ceylon, March, July, Nov. {Ne- 



vill: Chapman). 

 Coorg. 

 Belgaum, Julv to Sept., Xov. 



{H. A. Butler). 

 Western Ghats [Coussmaker) . 

 Maliableshwar. 

 Pokhur, Ajmere, Jan. 8 {Sir O. 



St. John). 

 Hydrabad, Sind, Aug. {S. Doig). 



Delhi, July ( W. N. CMll). 



Naini Tal. 



Etawah, July to Sept. 



Nepal. 



Darjeeling Terai, Nov., March 



(i. 3Iandelli). 

 Calcutta, Aug., Dec, Jan., June 



{A. O. H. (^- W. T. Blanford). 

 Dacca. 



Faridpur, May {J. R. Cripps). 

 Commilla, Tipperah. 



Assam [McClelland). 

 Dollah, Assam, May 8 (J. Cock- 

 burn). 



u', v'. (J ad. sk. Sadhjna, Assam, April {J. Cock- 

 bur7i). 



Gould Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Gould Coll. 

 Colonel Sturt [P.]. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Pinwill Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hodgson Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume CoU. 

 Hume CoU. 



India 3Iuseum. 

 Hume CoU. 



Hume Coll. 



