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linear ovate central brown stripe. Lower breast, abdomen, vent, 
and tibial plumes, sides and axillaries, a sort of pale rufous buff, 
salmon coloured on the axillaries. Two feathers on the abdo- 
men and one or two on the flanks a wood brown, each with two 
rather conspicuous fulvous white transverse bars. The axilla- 
ries and the rest of the lower parts above mentioned are entirely 
unbarred and unspotted, except the tibial plumes which here 
and there contained brown feathers with obscure rufous white 
transverse bands. ‘Tarsus, fulvous white, with a few pale ru- 
fous brown spots, lower tail coverts pale, slightly rufous, brown, 
with conspicuous broad transverse fulvous white bars. Wing 
lining rufous white with only a few small brown spots towards 
the ends of the longer ones. 
No. 3, a female, shot December 15th, in its general upper 
plumage is intermediate between No. 1 and No. 2, but the tail 
is yellowish brown with one terminal and six other broad, trans- 
verse, umber brown bars, the terminal being no broader than the 
others. Underneath, the bird closely resembles No. 2, but, 
there is no trace of a central throat stripe and only some dozen 
feathers of quite the upper breast, have narrow, central, dark 
brown stripes. Per contra, the sides and an irregular broad 
band, across the abdomen have the feathers pale wood brown, 
with well marked broad transverse, whitish bars. The barrings 
on the lower tail coverts and tibial plumes are very obscure, 
mere nothings. The wing lining, axillaries &c. correspond with 
No. 2. 
These three are all of known parentage, undeniable specimens 
of S. Nipalensis, shot in the interior of Kumaon, near Mussourie 
and above Kotegurh, and might easily, so far as general appear- 
ance goes, be mistaken for S. Cirrhatus. The extreme variability 
of the tail markings is remarkable. 
The fully adult female, No. 4, has the whole top of the 
head, nape, ear coverts, cheeks and sides of the neck black- 
ish brown, in some lights almost black. The feathers es- 
pecially of the hind head and sides of the neck, nar- 
rowly margined with rufous fawn, and the bases of the feathers 
of the same colour more or less tinged with brown, showing 
through a good deal, here and there. The scapulars and back, 
are deep umber brown. The larger scapulars, with traces of 
broad, darker brown transverse bars and the longer upper tail 
coverts narrowly tipped with white, and with broad and con- 
spicuous transverse white bars. The tail very narrowly tipped 
with white, with a greyish brown ground, a very broad sub- 
terminal, and four other broad transverse deep brown bands ; 
the fourth lost under the upper tail coverts, and the bars being 
