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the N. W. Himalayas, and Kashmeer, East of the Jheelum, 
so far as I have yet been able to gather, very few pairs remain 
to breed in the plains. 
(Eight males and females measured and weighed.) 
Males, The 3rd, or 3rd and 4th primaries the longest. The 1st is from 
3°9 to 5°21 shorter, the 2nd from 0°82 to 1°7, and the 3rd from 0°4 to 0:43, 
shorter. Exterior tail feathers, 0°2 to 0°88, shorter than interior ones. 
Females. The 3rd, 4th, or 5th primaries the longest. The 1st is from 
4:2 to 55 shorter, the 2nd, from 1°15 to 2, and the 3rd, from 0°15 to 0°6, 
shorter. Exterior tail feathers 0°7 to 1°3, shorter than interior ones. 
Description. (Of a very fine male, in the light stage of plumage, shot 
on the 11th January, 1867.) 
Legs and Feet. A dingy, rather pale lemon yellow ; a row of large trans- 
verse scutee, on the front of the tarsus, below the feathered portion, nearly to 
the foot; a row of still larger transverse scute, at the back of the tarsus, 
from the foot to about half way up; three, four and five scutz at tip of toes, 
rest of scutellation reticulate, well marked, with the small plates rather 
convex; claws black, well curved, sharp; inner edge of mid toe claw much 
dilated. 
Irides. Brownish yellow. Edges of lids, and small bare shelf above eye, 
dusky greenish. 
Bill. Upper mandible at junction with cere, and base of lower mandible, 
brownish plumbeous ; tips of both mandibles horny black, gape more yellow ; 
cere yellowish green. 
Tongue. Moderate, fleshy, entire, hastate, obtuse tipped, ciliated or finely 
serrated on posterior margin, 
Prumace. Lores thickly clothed with tiny white feathers, with ereatly 
elongated, naked, dark brown or black, hair-like shafts, some of which, as 
usual, curve up, over the nostrils and front of forehead, while the rest point 
down over commissure, some being sloped away over the gape. Orbits fea- 
thered white. <A trace of a very narrow dark brown streak, just above the 
bare shelf of the eye; the whole of the forehead, crown and occiput, a pale 
sandy brown, the feathers shafted darker, and with more or less white at the 
base, which shows through more or less in different places, most, in a patch 
above each nostril, and slightly above each eye, and least on the crown. 
Nape and back of the neck, a somewhat darker brown, very much mottled 
with white, owing toa great deal of the basal portions of the feathers showing 
through. Upper back, scapulars, and lesser wing coverts a sort of umber brown ; 
somewhat rufous on the lesser scapulars, which with the feathers of the upper 
back, are faintly, while the lesser coverts are distinctly, margined with rufous 
or pale rufous brown, The lower and middle back, and rump, are a nearly 
uniform umber brown. ‘The upper tail coverts are paler, the tips and exterior 
webs, much mottled, blotched, or imperfectly barred, with buffy or pale rufous. 
Tail feathers umber brown, narrowly tipped paler. Centre feathers with 
traces of about eight darker, and somewhat wavy, transverse, brown bars, 
with the interspaces, (specially on the imner web) near the shafts, mot- 
tled with pale rufous, or fulvous white, all the lateral tail feathers, with 
the greater portions of the inner webs, white, incompletely barred towards the 
tips, with wavy blotches of brown and pale rufous. The three exterior, on 
each side, with some white on the outer webs, also at the bases, and beyond 
this an inch or so of mottling or freckling, with pale rufous, chiefly close to 
the shaft, On the dark portion of the exterior webs of all, there are in a 
