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wind ; but we were not so fortunate as to find a nest or obtain 

 young birds. 



2. Leptopcecile obscura, sp. n. 

 L. sophics simillima, sed minor^ gastrteoque toto uni colore. 



Proportions of primaries the same as in L. sophia ; culmen 

 black ; eyes ? (The eyes of L. sophite from Kansuh are red.) 

 Tarsus dark fulvous colour, 



Male, in well-worn summer plumage (killed in June). 

 Crown of head rufous-chestnut ; head and supercilia ochra- 

 ceous white ; gape black ; nape^ back, and shoulders dusky 

 olive ; tail-eoverts bright violet-blue. Cheeks, sides of 

 neck, all the abdomen, flanks, and under tail-feathers 

 rufous cinnamon, with bluish-violet tipped feathers, like the 



* We have only three specimens of L. ohscnra in om- collection — two 

 young males and one old, the diagnosis being made from the last. 



t According to Severtzow : * Vertical and Horizontal Distribution of 

 the Fauna of Turkestan,' p. 135. 



\ In this specimen the outer web of three pairs of rectrices is white, 

 and the proportion of the quills is different, one wing being unfortunately 

 broken ; and in another, killed in May, the feathers were perhaps not 

 fully gi'own. 



