;}.'5. lacKASiA. .'515 



sjindy brown, shading into grey towards the tip, and with bluckish- 

 browu shaft-stripes. 



Hub. N. Afghanistan and Kafiristan. 



a, b. ^ ad. sk. Kafiristan (Griffiths). India Museum [P.]. 



(Types of the species.) 



4. Pacrasia meyeri. 



Pucrasia meyeri, MadanUz, Ibis, ]88G, p. 14.5 [Central Thibet]. 

 Pucrasia darwiuii, Oiistul. (jiec tSwinh.) Le Nat. 1886, p. i276 [Yer- 

 ka-lo, Upper Mekong], 



Adult male. Differs from the male of P. .vanihosjtila in having 

 "tlie up])er tail-coverts fawn-colour, striped and freckled with black; 

 central tail-feathers rufous, becoming whiter at the tips, with two 

 irregular black bauds on each side, margined with fawn-colour ; 

 outer tail-feathers rich rufous ou the outer webs and brownish on 

 the inner margins, banded with black, each feather tipped with 

 pure white." 



It will be noted that the description of the upper tail-coverts 

 and tail of F. meyeri agrees closely with that of P. macrolojJia. In 

 other respects the present species ap])ears to be entirely similar to 

 X. .vdii'Jws^iila. 



A<J lilt female. Differs from the female of P. xantliosjrila in having 

 the middle tail-feathers fulvous vermiculated with black, and the 

 outer tail-feathers rufous, black towards the apex and tipx>ed with 

 white. 



Hah. Yer-ka-lo, Upper Mekong to Ceutral Thibet. 



5. Piicrasia xanthospila. 



Kuplocanius pucrasia, Lamprei/ (nee firaii), P. Z. S. 1862, ]i. 221. 

 l'ucra*ia xantbosjnla, Gniti, i'. Z. .S'. 1804, p. 2.59, pi. xx. ; 3Ii//ie- 



Edio. N. Arch. Mus. Bull. i. p. 14, pi. 1. figs. 3 & 4 {l8(;o) [X.l^. 



of Pckin] ; Savrin, P. Z. S. ]8(K;, p. 4;}7 pits, of X. and W. t'hiua] ; 



Daviel, K. Arch. Mus. Jhdl. iii. y. 37 (18U7) [Ta-Tchio-Cbau, Johol, 



Oulacban] ; Gray, List Gallina Brit. Miis. p. 31 (1807) ; Gould, B. 



Asia, vii. ])1. 24 (1869) : Grnij, Jlund-l. B. ii. p. 2.o9 (1870) ; Swliih. 



P. Z. S. 1871. p. 3!t9 [N.W. China] : Darid, N. Arch. Mu.^. Bull. 



vii. p. 1 1 (1S71) [Pekin, Mciugolia, Sze-chueu] ; Su-inhor, P. Z. S. 



1872, p. ")5() [Matitchuria to Sze-chuen i ; Elliot, Mo)i. Phas. i. pi. 30 



(1872); tichit. Ibla, lb74, p. Ii'i9 ; David cS- Oustal. Ols. Chine, 



p. 407, pi. 104 (1877) [Mantchouria to E. Thibet]; Seehohm, Ibis, 



1891, p. 380 pV. Sze-cluien]. 

 Pucrasia davidiana, Milnc-Edw. X. Arch. y[us. Bull. i. p. 14 (18G.5). 

 Pucrasia xnnthospila, var. ruficoUis, David Sf Oustal. Ois. Chine, 



y. 408 (1877) [Slien-se]. 

 ? Pucrasia meyeri, Oustal. Ann. Sci. Nat. (7) xii. p. 31(5 (1892) [Ta- 



tsien-loii). 



Adult male. In general appearance resembles the male of P. macro- 

 lojtha. but the disposition of the colours on the upper parts, sides, 

 and flanks is reversed, the shaft-stripes and margins of eacli feather 

 being grey and divided from one another on each side by a black 

 band ; the wing-coverts are similarly but less regulai'ly marked, and 



