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species. Mr. L. Layard describes the bird as not uncommon. 

 The egg is of a darkish brown generally, but irregularly speckled 

 and blotched with very dark madder-brown specks and blotches 

 of various sizes. Axis 12'", diam. 9'". 



TURNIX OCELLATA (Scop.) ? 



A second Quail's egg is sent, which from our knowledge of 

 eggs of birds of this genus, we fully believe to belong to this 

 species. 



It is of a dirty pale-brown ground, profusely spotted with 

 black and dark-brown speckles, chiefly at the obtuse end. The 

 small end is rather acutely pointed. Axis 12'", diam. 8"'. 



XIII. — Desaiptions of Six new Species of Indian Birds. 

 By Allan Hume, C.B. 



1. Chrysomitris thibetana. 



Dimensions. — Length 4"-75, wing 2"-70, tail l"-9, tarsus 0"-4, 

 bill at front 0"-35. 



Description (only female obtained). — Legs and feet brown; 

 bill brown, fleshy on lower mandible. Plumage : Head, neck, 

 back, and scapulars dingy olive-green, each feather with a dark 

 brown central stripe ; a long supercilium, continued backwards 

 round the ear-coverts, and an ill-defined patch on the nape 

 greenish yellow; ear-coverts brownish olive; lower parts pale 

 yellow, albescent on the middle of the abdomen and towards the 

 vent ; the sides and flanks with dusky central streaks ; lower tail- 

 coverts pale yellow, each feather with a linear lanceolate blackish 

 brown central streak; rump and upper tail-coverts greenish 

 yellow, with traces of central dusky streaks ; quills and tail 

 blackish brown, edged exteriorly with greenish yellow; the 

 primaries very narrowly margined at the tips, and the tail- 

 feathers on the inner webs with greyish white. 



This is a true Siskin, agreeing perfectly in shape of bill with 

 the European C. spinus, which our Indian C. spinoides does not. 



The specimen described was obtained by L. Mandelli, Esq., 

 on the borders of Sikkim and Thibet. It appears to me to be 



