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valley or khud, at the back of Mahasoo (near Simla). Con- 
trary to what might have been expected, it was placed on a 
brown bars, the bars being most distinct on the inner, least so on the 
outer feathers. This quasi supercilium extends backwards, nearly as far as 
the posterior angle of the eye; from thence, there is a narrow, ill-defined, 
dusky, brown band, running behind the posterior angle of the eye and under 
the eye towards the lores, where it is lost in the dark loral bristles, and 
dividing the eye as it were from the cheeks and ear coverts, the feathers of 
which are a very pale yellowish brown, indistinctly banded with rays of a 
darker brown, the feathers having the webs very much separated. The 
feathers of the chin and the band of ruff feathers running from the 
chin, below the light cheek and ear feathers, above described, and upwards, 
behind the ear coverts, and above the eye, to near the crown—a sort of 
chocolate brown, a shade darker than even the feathers of the crown. 
There is an enormous bare patch above and partly behind the eye, hidden 
in life by the downward projecting feathers of the sides of the crown. 
Below the chin, the centre of the throat is pure white. Front and sides 
of the neck, the whole lower surface of the body, wing-lining, lower tail 
coverts, tibial and tarsal plumes and feathers of foot, buffy or fulvous white, 
every feather closely and conspicuously banded with very numerous, 
narrow, brown bars; these bars are rather closer on the upper portion of 
the breast; wider apart and larger on the lower tail coverts; much 
closer and somewhat less distinct on tibia, tarsus and foot, and somewhat 
less distinct on the lower coverts of the secondaries, where also the ground 
colour is somewhat more rufous. The larger, lower coverts of the first 
six or eight primaries are more or less broadly tipped with dark brown, 
above which the barrings are somewhat obsolete. There is a purplish 
brown tinge, on the feathers at the base of the neck, in front, forming a 
sort of ill-defined, pectoral gorget, most conspicuous at the sides of the neck. 
The banded, fulyous white feathers of the rest of the sides of the neck, extend 
partially backwards, so as nearly to meet behind, and form a sort of ill- 
defined, imperfect collar. Feathers of the side of the head, behind the ruff 
feathers, and above the imperfect collar, nape, upper back, central scapulars 
and lesser wing coverts, a rich, deep, slightly rufous brown, many of the 
feathers more or less clouded with the deep chocolate brown of the top 
of the head, and exhibiting in some lights a purple gloss. Longer and 
exterior scapulars, and some feathers of the centre back, more or less 
distinctly barred with white or fulvous white on one or both webs; the 
bars on some feathers, especially on the outer scapulars, being very 
sharply cut and distinctly marked, while on others, they are freckled 
irregulars bands. I note that this barring is greatly concealed by the 
overhanging feathers of the upper back and centre scapulars. The greater 
and median coverts of the secondaries are a somewhat lighter shade of 
rufous brown, most of them narrowly tipped with white or fulvous white, 
and indistinctly freckled or barred with the same colour. The winglet, 
and greater coverts of the earlier primaries a rich deep velvet brown, with 
a most peculiarly soft and glossy texture, and in some lights a rich purple 
gloss. The greater coverts of the later primaries are intermediate in colour 
and markings between these and the greater coverts of the secondaries. 
The quills are brown, deeper and purpler on the earlier primaries, and 
growing lighter and more fulvous towards the later secondaries; all but 
the first 2 primaries, are distinctly and broadly barred, on both webs, with 
