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tail-coverts white; primaries and inner webs of secondaries black, 
edged with grey; tail black, the external web and the apical half of 
the internal web of the outer feather on each side white; the apical 
half of the second feather on each side white; the next, or third, on 
each side with a large spot of white at the tip; bill black; feet flesh- 
colour. 
Female: striated on the head with brown and whitish; all the 
upper surface olive-brown ; all the wing-feathers narrowly edged with 
greenish grey ; under surface white, with a conspicuous stripe of 
brown down the centre of each feather ; vent and under tail-coverts 
white, without strize. 
Total length, 103 inches; bill, 12; wing, 52; tail, 44; tarsi, 7. 
Hab. Cape York. 
Remark.—Of the same size as Sphecotheres Australis, but may be 
distinguished from that and every other species of the genus by the 
beautiful jonquil-yellow of its under surface. 
3. DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE NEW SPECIES OF INDIAN Birps. 
By J. Gouup, F.R.S. erc. etc. 
1. Ruricitua GRANDIS, Gould. 
Sp. Ch.—Crown of the head and the basal portion of the primaries 
and secondaries white; forehead, cheeks, chin, throat, back, wing- 
coverts, and the apical portion of the primaries and secondaries black ; 
abdomen, lower part of the back, upper and under tail-coverts and 
tail rich rufous; bill and feet black. 
Total length, 7 inches; bill, 3; wing, 44; tail, 32; tarsi, 14. 
Hab. Afganhistaun and Thibet. 
Remark.—This, the largest and one of the best-marked species of 
the genus, is nearly allied to the aurorea of Pallas. 
2. Yunx mnpica, Gould. 
Sp. Ch.—Upper surface pale brown, finely freckled with grey, and 
blotched, particularly down the back of the neck, on the centre of the 
back, and on the wing-coverts, with brownish black ; primaries brown, 
crossed on their outer webs with regular bands of deep buff, and 
toothed on their inner webs with the same hue; remainder of the 
wing-feathers like the upper surface, but crossed by broad, irregular 
bands of brown; tail like the upper surface, but crossed by narrow, 
irregular bands of brownish black; sides of the throat and neck 
crossed by numerous narrow bars of blackish brown, the cheeks the 
same, but somewhat paler; on the centre of the throat a spatulate 
mark of chestnut-red ; centre of the abdomen and under tail-coverts 
pale buffy white, with a fine stripe of brownish black down the centre 
of each feather; flanks crossed by irregular bars of brownish black ; 
bill pale horn-colour, deeper at the tip; legs apparently yellowish 
flesh-colour. 
Total length, 73 inches; bill, 7; wing, 38; tail, 31; tarsi, 4. 
Hab. Afganhistaun and Thibet. 
Remark.—Nearly allied to the Y. pectoralis of Southern Africa, 
