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witli chestnut on the median and secondary coverts. Primaries 

 with the basal two-thirds white and the rest blackish grey, finely 

 mottled with rufous buft' at the tips of the inner quills; primary- 

 coverts blackish grey ; secondaries dark grey, with the outer web 

 vermiculated witli buff, and a small white patch at the base next the 

 sliaft. Lores, superciliary stripes, sides of the head and neck, chin, 

 throat, and fore part of the neck white, the latter terminated by a 

 dark cliestnut band, which also margins it laterally. Chest and 

 upper breast white, with wide black transverse bars, less marked or 

 absent on the latter *. Rest of the underparts blackish grey, finely 

 verniiculaled with buff; feathers of the sides and tianks purer grey, 

 margined with chestnut and buff, often fringed externally with black. 

 Under tail-coverts white. Centre pairs of tail-feathers rufous, 

 thickly mottled with black, outer pairs with chestnut ends and 

 the rest of the inner web and subterminal portion of the outer 

 blackish t. Iris dark brown. Bill i)ale horny or slaty, dark at the 

 l)i)int ; cere and scale over nostril orange ; naked patch behind the 

 eye yellow. Legs and feet yellowish red or orange. Tarsi provided 

 with a pair of stout blunt spurs. Total length 25-5 inches, wing 

 12-G, tail 7-8, tarsus 2-8. 



Adult female. Scarcely differs in plumage from the male, but the 

 spurs are absent, and generally the feathers on the front part of the 

 forehead and above the eye are Iniff barred with grey. Total length 

 22o inches, wing 1U"S, tail (;'8, tarsus 2'5. 



In >/OH»r/er e,f(i)iij)J s the chestnut patches on either side of the 

 na])e are more or less united, the upper part of the mantle is usually 

 buff, and the outer primaries are pointed and mottled with rufous 

 buff at the extremities. 



In a cfiick the whole of the upper parts are buff, mottled and 

 blotclied with black ; all the feathers of the mantle, wing-coverts, 

 and scajjulars have a jiale stripe down the terminal part of the 

 shaft, dilated into a triangular white spot at the extremity. Chest 

 and breast rusty, widely tijjped with white, edged internally with 

 black ; breast similar, but less rusty ; tail rufous buff, barred and 

 mottled with black. 



Jiah. Himalayas, ranging west to the Hindu Kush, and north- 

 wards through tlie Altai ranges. 



a. $ nd. sk. Himalayas. J. R. Reeves, Esq. [P.]. 



/>. .luv.sk. Kmuium( Cajit. atracJie;/). Inilia Museum [_P.]. 



c. 5 nd.sk. Kumaon. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



(l-l. (J 2 nd. sk. Bhngarati Valley. Hume Coll. 



til. 2 ad. sk. Simla. ' Ca])t. Stackbouse Piuwill 



[P.l. 



It. 2 imm. sk. N.W. Himalayas {S. Tweeddale Coll. 



Pimcill). 



* In some specimens even the bars on the chest are nearly obsolete ; this has 

 apparently notliing to do with ape or sex. 



t In some the outer tail-featliers are chestnut, more or less mottled with 

 black, except tlie inner and basal part of the inner webs, which are blackish 



