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largely barred and blotched towards the extremity with black ; the 

 flight- feathers are dark brown, barred on the outer web with rufous 

 buif — except the first primary, which is uniform brown, and the 

 outer secondaries, which are barred on both webs. Forehead, lores 

 and superciliary stripe, chin, and throat rufous chestnut, the super- 

 ciliarj' stripe and the two latter edged above with a yellowish-white 

 band ; car-coverts dark brown, separated from the chestnut super- 

 cilium In' a narrow white band ; rest of the underparts white, 

 regularly baiTed with black. Thighs, vent, and under tail-coverts 

 pale chestnut ; tail brown, with rufous-buff cross-bars edged with 

 black. Bill black or dusky ; iris hazel ; legs and feet orange ; tarsi 

 with a pair of blunt spurs. Total length 6'4 inches, wing 3'3, 

 tail 1*5, tarsus 0-95. 



In immnture males the shaft-streaks on the feathers of the mantle 

 are usually wider ; the rufous chestnut of the lores and superciliary 

 stripes is ill-defined, while on the chin and throat it is mixed with 

 white and the shafts of the feathers are white ; the rest of the 

 underparts are mixed with vinaceous-buff feathers with narrow 

 white shaft-stripes, and the long barred flank-feathers are vinaceous 

 buff barred with black. 



In a (juite iiouiuj mide the only trace of rufous chestnut is on the 

 chin ; the chest and rest of the underparts are dull vinaceous buflf, 

 and most of the feathers have white shaft-streaks. 



Adult female. Difters from the adult male in having no buff shaft- 

 streaks or bars on the feathers of the back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts (in some specimens there are verj- slight traces of buff on 

 the upper tail-coverts) ; the wing-coverts much less barred with 

 buff and blotched with black, and the fore part of the neck, chest, 

 breast, and belly uniform viuaceous buff. 



In immature females the feathers of the mantle and many of those 

 on the underparts have white shafts ; the wing-covcrts are more 

 barred with buff and blotched with black ; the rufous-chestnut 

 sujjcrciliary stripe and throat of the adult are more or less feebly 

 developed, and the chest and sides of the breast are sometimes 

 faintly and narrowly barred with blackish. 



JIab. India and Ceylon. 



ad. (5 2 ad. sk. Mount Aboo, May, July, Hume Coll. 



Aug. (G. King), 



e, f. (S ad. sk. Moimt Aboo. Col. E. A. Butler 



[C.]. 



g. (S ad. sk. N.W. Ilimalavas. Capt. Stackhouse 



Pimvill [P.]. 



h. $ ad. .-^k. IIinialaya.<i. Gould Coll. 



i. cf ad. sk. Gangaotri Valley. 



k, I. <S ad. et Simla. " Ilume Coll. 



imm. sk. 



»i, w. (5 $ ad. sk. Umballah. Hume Coll. 



o>P- 6 2 «d. sk. Di'hra Dhoon, .Fan. Hume Coll. 



q. S ttd. sk. Dehra Dhoon. Tweeddale Coll. 



r. $ ad. sk. Kumaon {Strachey). India Museum [P.]. 



«. cJ ad. sk. Futtegurb,Oct. (^4.^-i>irf<fr- II. Seebohm, Esq. 



am). [P.]. 



