22. B.VMBUSICOLV. 259 



Adult male and female. Top of the bead umber-brown, usually 

 some of the feathers with subtermiual rufous spots ; forehead and 

 lores grey ; back of neck brownish grey, shading into pale olive- 

 brown on the rest of the upper parts ; most of the feathers of the 

 upper back ■with a wide, tri;ingular, terminal, chestnut shaft-patch. 

 Wing-coverts, scapulars, and outer secondaries irregularly barred, 

 vermiculated, and spotted with buff, the scapulars with large sub- 

 terminal dark or very dark chestnut blotches, margined with black 

 and butf ; sonic of the upj)er scapulars are also spotted with white. 

 Lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts with faint, wavy, trans- 

 verse bars of dusky. Quills and their greater coverts blackish grey ; 

 the outer webs of the primaries, inner secondaries, and their coverts 

 irregularly margined and mottled with buff. A pale grey super- 

 ciliary band passing down the side of the neck and dividing the 

 brownish nape from the sides and front of the neck, which with the 

 sides of the face, chin, and throat are bright rufous chestnut. Chest 

 grey, with fine transverse lines of black, and edged below with 

 rufous chestnut. Rest of the uuderparts bright or pale buff ; most 

 of the feathers of the sides and flanks with a large or moderate 

 subterminiU transverse spot or bar of dark chestnut and black or 

 black. Tail dull chestnut ; both webs of the middle feathers and 

 the outer webs of the outer feathers irregularly barred and mottled 

 with buff. Bill blackish grey, with broad pale tip ; iris rich 

 brown ; eyelid brown ; legs and claws light greenish grey. 



Male. Total length 11-8 inches, wing o--t, tail 3-8, tarsus 1-7. 



Female. Total length 10-S inches, wing 5*2, tail 3-5, tarsus 1-6. 



In younger specimens the chin and throat are mixed with buff 

 feathers, and the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts arc spotted 

 with dark chestniit and black. 



Hab. 8. China ; Fokien to Sze-chuen and S. Shen-si. 



a-c. c? ad, et imni. China. J. R. Reeves, Esq. 



sk. [P.]. 



d. 9 ad. St. China. J . R. Reeves, Esq. 



[P.]. 



e. S ad. sk. China. Gould Coll. 



/. $ ad. sk. Foochow, May {It. Swinhoe). Tweeddale Coll. 



g. S ad. sk. Shaughai, Jan. F. W. Stvau, Esq. 



[P.}. ■ 

 h. cS ad. skel. China. Zool. Soc. Coll. 



3. Bambusicola sonorivox. 



Banibusicola sonorivo.x, Gould, P. Z. S. 18(32, p. 285 [Formosa] ; 



Stvin/ioe, Ihi.", 18(i:3, pp. 208, 399 ; Gould, B. Asia, vi. pi. (53 (1864) ; 



SiHn/we, Ibis, 1865, p. 542, 1866, pp. 134, 404, 405, 406; Grant, 



Ibis, 1^9l^ p. 389. 

 Perdi-Y sonoiivox, Grai/, List Gallina Brit. Mux. p. 58 (1867); id. 



Iland-l. B. ii. p. 26'7, no. 9700 (1870) ; Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, 



p. 400. 



Adult male and female. General plumage resembles that of B. 

 thoracica, but is altogether richer and darker, and may be at once 



