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rufescent towards the lower back and rump ; lesser and 

 median coverts like the hack ; greater coverts^ bastard "wing, 

 primary-coverts, and quills dusky brown, edged wnth ruddy 

 brown like the back; the secondaries externally reddish brown, 

 the innermost with indistinct dusky cross bars ; upper tail- 

 coverts and tail-feathers rufous, moi^e distinctly chestnut 

 on the margins ; crown of head rather more olive-brown 

 than the back ; lores dull whitish, with an ashy shade above 

 them ; feathers round eye and ear-coverts brown, rather more 

 ashy near the cheeks, which are dull ashy ; throat white ; 

 sides of neck brown; fore neck, breast, sides of body, and 

 flanks ashy grey, the latter washed with brown ; abdomen 

 white ; thighs brown ; under tail-coverts pale rufous ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries pale brown, with ashy bases ; 

 quills below dusky, pale tawny along the inner edge. Total 

 length 6 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 3-05, tail 2-2, tarsus 0'65. 



Adult female. Not different from the male. Total length 

 5-6 inches, culmen 0"65, wing 2-8, tail 2"1, tarsus 0-6. 



Differs from R. ruficauda, Sharpe, in having olive-brown 

 ear-coverts, brown axillaries and under wing-coverts, and 

 especially in its rufescent (not white) under tail-coverts. 



12. Cryptolopha MONTIS, sp. n. 



Adult male. General colour above dull olive-green, a little 

 more yellow on the lower wings and upper tail-coverts, the 

 latter being olive-green with yellow tips ; lesser wing-coverts 

 blackish, with dull olive-yellow ends ; median and greater 

 coverts blackish, edged with olive-green and tipped with 

 yellow, forming a double wing-bar, the second one rather 

 yellowish white ; bastard wing, primary- coverts, and quills 

 blackish, edged with olive-green, rather more yellow on the 

 margins of the primaries; tail-feathers dusky ashy brown, 

 edged with olive-green, with a narrow whitish tip to the 

 outer ones ; crown of head, occiput, and nape chestnut, ex- 

 tending on to the hind neck ; sides of crown also chestnut, 

 with a broad band of black running down the crown from 

 above the eye to the sides of the neck ; lores yellowish ; eye- 

 lid white ; ear-coverts and sides of face chestnut ; cheeks 



