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First, there is a young female. Length, 13°5. Wing, 81. 
Tail, 6-5. Tarsus, 0°2. Mid toe to root of claw, 1'4. Circumfer- 
ence of middle of tarsus, 0°5, (the same as in others of this 
species), WVisws and Melaschistos have it from 0°6 to 0:75. The 
head, nape, mantle and upper tail coverts are umber brown, very 
dark on nape and upper back, all the feathers narrowly margin- 
ed rufous. The tail rather pale brown, narrowly tipped with 
fulvous white, with six moderately broad transverse dark brown 
bars, on both webs of the ten central tail feathers, and seven on . 
the interior webs only, of the external laterals one bar in each 
ease hidden under the upper tail coverts. Behind the eye a 
. broad white streak, the feathers centered dark brown, the whole 
of the chin, throat, cheeks, and ear coverts (except the tips of 
the hindermost of the latter which are rufous brown) white, 
each feather with a very narrow central stripe’ of dark brown, 
growing slightly broader as the feathers approach the breast. 
Breast, upper abdomen and sides, white; all the feathers with 
transverse, somewhat arrow head bars, rufous in the centre and 
brown laterally. Lower abdomen and tibial plumes, with nar- 
rower, cuspidate, transverse brown bars, and lower tail coverts 
with similar bars, but fainter, smaller and wider apart. This 
bird is very like Visws, but the dimensions, size of bill, very 
slender tarsus and toes, prevent our referring it to that species. 
It was a female, ascertained by dissection, killed at Lahore. It 
eannot be WVisoides, for the throat is conspicuously streaked like 
Nisus, and has no central stripe. I believe it to be Virgatus. 
If it be not identical (which J feel sure it is) it might stand as 
A. Micronisus. I have another young female, from Gurhwal, the 
skin measures—Wing, 8°05. ‘Tail, 6-42. Tarsus, 2°05. Mid 
toe to root of claw, 1:5. Cireumference of tarsus, 0°5. This bird 
is a rather darker brown above, the bars below are rather broader 
and more rufous, and the ten central tail feathers have only five 
and the external lateral six bars, (one of each as in the former 
case hidden under the upper tail coverts) but in every other 
respect, this bird precisely resembles the preceding. 
Then I have a very young male from Darjeeling. Length, 
11:5. Wing, 6°35. Tail, 5-5. “Tarsus, 1:9. Mid toe, 1°35. Cir- 
cumference of tarsus, 0°42. This above is like the preceding but 
more rufous, and the ten centre feathers have only four, and the 
external laterals six bars, extending to both webs on all the 
feathers, the bars being broader than in the preceding. Below 
the chin, throat, ear coverts, breast, abdomen and tibial plumes, 
are white, here and there slightly tinged fulvous, each feather 
with a broad central stripe of dark, more or less rufous brown, 
smaller actually of course on the throat where the feathers are 
