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which belong to this or eventually to the preceding species. 

 One of them , said to come from British India , has chin 

 and upper throat rusty fulvous and the feathers on fore- 

 and hind neck and on the mantle edged on both sides with 

 white. The feathers on the lower surface are extremely 

 broadly margined with white , giving this part an obviously 

 white appearance. In fact the central spots are so small 

 and almost reduced to broad shaft-streaks on breast and 

 flanks, that the white color is much predominant. In a 

 specimen from Sumatra, also making part of the Leyden 

 Museum, the chin and upper throat are pale rufous and the 

 breast and flanks sooty brown with broad white edgings; 

 only few white stripes are seen on the mantle. 



Another specimen with a red tail has chin and upper 

 throat rusty white and the centres to the feathers on breast 

 and flanks black ; very few white stripes are seen on the 

 mantle. This bird is labelled »S. Muller, Borneo", but 

 though the British Museum is also in possession of a red- 

 tailed female said to be from Borneo , the statement of 

 this locality might possibly be erroneous, and the bird in 

 question will belong to either L. sumatrana or Vieilloti. 



Moreover I have before me two red-tailed females which 

 had been kept alive in the Zoological Garden at Amster- 

 dam and of which the place of origin is unknown. Both 

 have chin and upper throat pure white and the hind neck 

 and mantle uniform chestnut-brown. In one of these two 

 specimens the feathers on the whole lower surface , with the 

 exception of the pure white abdomen and vent, are chestnut- 

 brown without any blackish spots, and broadly edged in 

 the usual way with white, with the exception of the under 

 tail-coverts which are uniform chestnut-brown. The other 

 specimen is like the former but has the centres of the 

 feathers on breast and hind flanks tinged with sooty brown. 



Amongst the five red-tailed females before me, there is 

 not one like the other , but I am entirely at a loss whether 

 to declare these differences to be individual or geographical, 

 or due to the age of the birds. 



Notes from the Leyden JMuseuin , Vol. XVII. 



