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smaller, and larger on the breast, &c., where these are larger, 
but relatively much the same size. On the lower abdomen and. 
tibial plumes, however, they become very drop-like. The lower 
tail coverts white, some faintly tinged fulvous towards the tips. 
Another male, certainly not adult, but yet not very young 
from Murree, measured—Length 11:25. Expanse, 0:20. Wing, 
6:5. Tail, 5-25. Tarsus, 1:9. Mid toe, 1:3. Circumference of tarsus, 
0:5. Wings, when closed, reached to within 1°75 of end of tail. 
Tt has the head, nape, back, mantle and upper tail coverts 
dusky cyaneous, darkest on the head—the kind of colour you 
may make by mixing indigo and Indian ink—a narrow barely 
perceptible white streak behind the eye, and the usual white 
mottling on the nape. Tail slaty grey, brownish on external 
laterals, with seven narrow transverse bars on the inner webs of 
these latter, and four broad, blackish bars on both webs of the 
other ten feathers, ear coverts and sides of the neck, dusky, thes 
former with traces of rufous strize, the latter tinged cyaneous, 
chin and throat white, tinged fulvous towards the sides, with 
no strie, but one central well-defined, blackish stripe. The 
breast quite deep ferruginous at the sides, the central portion, 
having the feathers a mixture of blackish, deep ferruginous and 
white, the blackish portion, a stripe more or less. wide, lying 
on the shaft the ferruginous surrounding this and extending 
quite to the point, and the lateral margins being white, sides, 
flanks, and upper abdomen ferruginous imperfectly barred with 
white, the white not quite meeting at the shaft. The lower 
abdomen white, barred with paler ferruginous and near the 
vent, with slightly rufous grey. Tibial plumes, white, very 
closely barred with grey, slightly suffused with rusty. Lower 
tail coverts pure white. 
The streakless white, central striped throat reminds one of 
“ Gularis,”’ but this is unmistakably of the same species as the 
preceding (though differing toto cw/o in plumage) and as the 
adult female from Simla, which I will next describe. 
This measures in the dry skin—Wing, 8:1. Tail, 0°7. Tarsus, 
2:05. Mid toe, 1-45. Cireumference of tarsus, 0°5. The upper 
plumage closely resembles the preceding, but is somewhat paler 
and more slaty. The tail is slightly browner and is narrowly 
but conspicuously white tipped, with four bars on both webs of 
the ten central, and five on the inner webs of the two external 
feathers; the bars faint, and but little darker than the rest of 
the feather, on both webs of the central and the outer webs of 
the next three laterals on either side. The chin and throat are 
streakless white, slightly tinged with rufous, and no trace of any 
central stripe. ‘The ear coverts, sides of neck, breast, abdomen 
