THE BHIMRAJ C39 



extreme rarity. Finn says that he was 

 informed of three similar other birds 

 having passed through his bird-dealer's 

 hands, all of which were procured from 

 Sigowli in the Gorakhpur district. I am 

 inclined, however, to put little trust in 

 the testimony of his bird-dealer, and in 

 the absence of sufficient data, I cannot but 

 regard Finn's specimen as an aberration. 

 The occurrence of a couple or two of 

 birds with symmetrically white parts 

 (even if we believe the bird-dealer) is 

 not sufficient, in my judgement, to war- 

 rant the haste, as Finn has shown, for 

 species-making. 



