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and a band extending from the ej'e across the face to the throat, 

 black ; face and neck on the sides and under the throat buff, 

 the buff parts margined narrowly with white ; also the black 

 ■crown from behind the ej-e is bordered on each side with a white 

 band which runs down the sides of the black nape, and spreads 

 on the sides of the neck ; from behind the eye a broad glossy 

 green band of a crescentic shape passes along the sides of the 

 head and inferiorly changes into black, between the buff colour 

 anteriorlj' and white baud posteriorly ; back and scapulars grey, 

 somewhat tinged with brown, minutely vermiculated with black ; 

 the inner scapulars elongated, lanceolate, on the outer web black, 

 edged with cinnnamon, silky buff, edged with brown on the inner 

 web ; lower back and rump greyish brown ; the upper tail-coverts 

 brown, edged with rufous ; lower neck and upper breast vinous, 

 -marked with small oval black spots ; on the sides of the breast, just 

 before the bend of the wing, a crescentic white band ; lower breast and 

 belly white ; flanks grey, minutely vermiculated with black ; under 

 tail-coverts black, but marked with bay on the sides, the longer ones 

 whitish buff at the tip, with slight vermiculation ; on the lower flanks, 

 just at the base of the tail a band of silky white, formed by the tip of 

 the feathers ; wings pale greyish brown ; the last row of the upper 

 wing-coverts tipped with cinnamon, forming a band which borders 

 anteriorly the wing-speculum : the latter is glossy green anteriorly, 

 with a subapieal velvety black band, and bordered by a white band at 

 the tip of the secondaries ; the longer tertials marked with velvety 

 black on the outer web ; quiUs pale bi'own ; under wing-coverts 

 brown-grey, the greater ones pale grey, the central ones and the 

 axillaries whitish, minutely spotted with brown-grey : bill dark bluish 

 brown ; feet light greyish blue, darker on the web ; irides chestnut- 

 brown. Total length 18 inches, wing 8*5, tail 4-2, culmen 1-5, 

 tarsus 1. 



Female. Brown, the feathers with paler edges, more or less rufous; 

 at the base of the upper mandible near the gape a round huffy 

 white spot, above which on the lores there is a brown mark ; throat 

 and part of the lower cheeks buffy white, immaculate ; superciliary 

 stripe and cheeks buff'y, streaked and spotted with brown ; rump 

 greyish brown ; breast and flanks rufous, mottled with dark brown 

 marks more or less of a crescentic shape : abdomen and under tail- 

 coverts buffj' white, the latter with brown oval spots ; on the lower 

 flanks at tho base of tail a greyish patch, minutely vermiculated with 

 brown ; wing as in the male, but duller, and the band at the tip of the 

 secondaries buffy white. In size somewhat smaller than the male. 



Hab. Eastern Siberia ; Southern China and Japan in winter ; it 

 straggles into India and very rarely into the Western Palsearctic 

 Eegion (France, Italy). 



a. S imm. sk, Ghumanhora Jheel, 22 miles Hume Coll. 



W. of Delhi, Nov. ( W. N. 



Chill), 

 h, c,d. r? 2 ad. St. Siberia. Old Coll. 



e. (S imm. st. Siberia. Zool. Soc. 



