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spot at the extremity ; nape aud back of the neck rufous buif, also 

 spotted -with black at the extremity. Back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts olive-brown, fringed and barred with black; the subtermiual 

 bars on the lower bark, rump, and upper tail-coverts wider than the 

 rest, sometimes forming a triangular black spot. Lesser and median, 

 wing-coverts light olive-brown, with wide-set narrow wavy black 

 lines and shaft-blotches or spots of black. Basal half of the sca- 

 pulars dull chestnut mottled with black, the outer half ornamented 

 by bands of pale olive-buff, black, and chestnut. Primaries and 

 secondaries and their coverts similar to those of A. torqueola. 

 Ear-coverts buif. Superciliary stripe black, edged superiorly with 

 white, a wide white triangular patch of white commencing at the 

 base of the lower mandible. Chin and throat black ; front of 

 neck black, margined with white ; chest grey ; middle of breast 

 and belly white ; feathers of the sides and Hanks grey edged with 

 olive-brown and each with an oval white spot on the shaft near the 

 extremit}'. Under tail-coverts black, irregularly barred with 

 brownish buff and widely tipped with white. Tail olive-brown, 

 barred and mottled with black. Bill black ; iris brown ; orbital 

 and gular skin intense red ; legs and feet orange-red. 



Male. Total length 10 inches, wing 5-6, tail 2-2, tarsus 1-7. 



Female. Total length 9 inches, wing 5, tail 2, tarsus 1*5. 



In what appears to be a rather less mature male from Dibrughur 

 most of the breast-feathers have the basal two-thirds irregularly 

 barred with black. 



Hal). N.E. India, ranging from Sudiya in Eastern Assam to the 

 Khasia and Garo Hills, southwards through Cachar, Sylhet, Tip- 

 perah, Hill Tipperah, Manipur, and Chittagong ; also found in the 

 Kachin Hills, east of Bhamo. 



a. Ad. sk. Assam [McClelland). India Museum [P.]. 



b, c. c? 5 ad. sk. Sudiya, June (J. Cockbuni). Hume Coll. 

 d-g. (^ ad. sk. Dibrughm', Jan., Apiil {J. JR. Ilume Coll. 



Cri])ps). 



h, i. 5 ad. sk. N. Khasia Hills, Feb., March Tweeddale Coll. 



{A. W. Chennell). 



k, I. Ad. sk. [Khasia Hills.] India Museum [P.]. 



m. Ad. sk. Garo Hills, Feb. {H. H. God- Tweeddale Coll. 



idn-Austen). 



n. Ad. sk. Cachar (J. Inf/lis). Hume Coll. 



0. 5 ad. sk. Svlliet, May (J. R. Cripps). Hume Coll. 



p. Ad. sk. Manipur. Dr. G. Watt [P.]. 



q-s. S fid. sk. Tipperah, Jan., March. Hume Coll. 



t, u. <S ad. sk. et Kachin Hills, Feb. Dr. J. Anderson [P.]. 



sternum. 



3. Arboricola ardens. 



Arboricola ardens, Styun, Bull. Oni. C. no. ii. p. vi (1892); id. Ibis, 

 1893, pp. 56, 436, pi. xii. [Liuwowan, Hainan]. 



Adult male (type). Most nearly allied to A. atrogularis and 

 A. crudir/idaris, but differing widely from both as well as from all 

 other members of the genus in having an orange-scarlet i^atch of 

 feathei's on the fore part of the neck and middle of the chest. The 



