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another ; the dirty white ring surrounding each is imperfect 

 exteriorly, and disappears into the brown of the feather ; the 

 primaries are faintly dotted with huff on the outer web and uniform 

 brown on the inner ; sides of the head almost entirely naked ; chin 

 and throat thinly covered with white feathers ; rest of underparts 

 brown, with irregular mottled and dotted bars of dirty white. 

 Facial skin pale fleshy yellow ; bill black, except basal part of lower 

 mandible which is yellow ; legs and feet blackish. Total length 

 2o-6 inches, wing 8*4, tail 13-2, tarsus 3. 



In an immature male the plumage resembles that of the female, 

 but the ocelli on the mantle, scapulars, wing-coverts, and second- 

 aries are mostly irregularly represented bj' somewhat obscure dark 

 green and violet spots, the latter colour predominating ; the rings of 

 dirty white enclosing the ocelli are represented by irregular dots. 



Adtdt female. The top of the head and neck brown, the latter 

 obscurely barred with paler brown and white dots situated at the tips 

 of the shafts ; rest of the upper parts brown mottled with pale brown ; 

 the ocelli on the mantle, &c., of the male are represented by black 

 spots more or less glossed, especially on the outer secondaries, with 

 violet and purple ; the tip of each feather is thicld}' mottled with dirty 

 white ; the feathers of the back and rump have white shafts and a few 

 scattered whitish dots ; the ocelli on the longer tail-coverts are 

 absent and are only obscurely represented on the outer pairs of tail- 

 feathers, not, as a rule, on the middle pairs, which have onh* dark 

 spots; chin and throat white; rest of underparts brown, finely 

 mottled with whitish buff, under tail-coverts the same. Facial skin 

 pale fleshy yellow ; bill horny brown ; legs and feet very dark 

 plumbeous. Total length 19 inches, wing 7 1, tail 8, tarsus 2-4. 



An immature female has the outer secondaries and longer scapulars 

 margined and mottled with rufous and the outer webs of the second- 

 aries are dotted with pale rufous. 



Hah. Indo-Chinese countries, ranging in the north-west to Sikhim, 

 eastward to the Laos country, and southwards through Tenasserim 

 as far as Mergui. 



a. S ad. sk. 



b. cS ad. sk. 



N.E. India. 

 N.E. India. 



(Type 

 (Type 



c, d. (5 ad. sk. Darjeeling. 



e. cJ ad. sk. Darjeeling. 



f-n. (5 ad. et imm. Bhotau Dears, Feb. to May 



sk. (Z. Mandelli). 



0. J ad. sk. Buxa Dears, May [L. 



Mandelli). 

 ?)-/•. cf ad. etimm.sk. Assam {A. W. Chennell). 

 s~u. c? ad. sk. Assam. 



)'. (S ad. sk. Assam (McClelland), 



v. (j' ad. sk. N. Khasia Hills, March 



(A. TV. Chennell). 

 X. (J imm.sk. Gst,ro}iil\s, Feb. (Godzvin- 



Austen). 



.1. R. Reeves, Esq. [P.]. 

 of P. cyclospilum, Grav.) 



J. R. Reeves, Esq. [P.]. 

 of P. enicos}nlum, Gray.) 



Hume Coll. 



India Museum [P.]. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 Purchased. 

 India Museum [P.]. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



