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Fe7nale. Rump bright yellow ; with this exception 

 the whole upper plumage, sides of neck, lesser and 

 median wing-coverts are dark brown, each feather 

 with a large and well-defined greenish-yellow margin ; 

 greater coverts and quills dark brown, margined with 

 greenish-yellow on the outer webs ; tail dark brown 

 with a greenish-yellow tinge on the outer webs ; 

 region of the eye and cheeks ochraceous yellow ; ear- 

 coverts greenish-yellow with pale shafts ; the whole 

 lower plumage pale ochraceous, each feather with a 

 subterminal black mark showing more or less clearly 

 and sometimes concealed. 



The young bird resembles the adult female ; the 

 male moults the first autumn into the female plumage 

 again, but immediately after commences to assume 

 the adult male plumage by a change of colour in the 

 feathers, and probably attains the full plumage by 

 the first breeding-season. 



Bill yellow ; legs brown ; iris hazel-brown (Jerdon). 



Length about 7-5 ; tail 2-8 ; wing 4 ; tarsus '8 ; 

 bill from gape '8. 



Distribution. Nepal and Sikhim from 5,000 to 

 10,000 feet according to season ; the Khasi hills. 



Habits, etc. According to Jerdon frequents both 

 forest and bushy ground and has a loud whistling 

 note. 



This species is captured in the Khasi hills and 

 kept in captivity. 



SEPOY FINCH f HcBinatospiza sipahi). 

 (From Gould's Birds of Asia. Vol. V., p. 62.) 



In many parts of its structure, as well as in its 

 general colouring, this bird offers a close alliance to 

 the members of the genus CorytJms, yet every 



