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la the female, the upper part of the 

 body is uniformly dark-brown glossed with 

 blue. In the wings and tail, the white is 

 distributed as in the male. Chin, throaty 

 breast, and sides of the neck are grey ; 

 forehead and cheeks mottled with white 

 and grey ; sides of the body, vent, under 

 tail-coverts pale fulvescent, and middle of 

 the abdomen whitish. 



In the young, the upper plumage is dark 

 brown streaked with rufous ; the white in the 

 wings being as that in the adult ; the tail 

 brown with similar white patches. Throat 

 and breast greyitih brown streaked with 

 rufous. The rest of the lower body is white. 

 The young assume adult plumage as soon 

 as they are fully fledged. 



The Dhayal is considerably smaller in size 

 than the Shama, being only about eight 

 inches from the tip of its bill to the end of 

 its tail. But if we leave the tail in both 

 cases out of account, the Dhayal becomes 

 laro^er than the Shama, the reason ])eino; 

 that the latter has a lono-er tail. The 



