218 Major II. G. Wardlaw Ramsay on 



brown above, third pair reddish brown with a slaty bar, and 

 the three outer pairs slaty, with dark bars and a chestnut spot 

 on the inner web : beneath the breast is vinaceous, more or 

 less barred with dark metallic green and tipped with bronzy 

 green or amethyst; the belly and under tail-coverts buff; 

 axillaries and flanks slate-coloured. 



Adult female. Somewhat like the male, but the lower sur- 

 face is transversely barred, each feather being barred with 

 buff or white and tipped with metallic green or purple ; the 

 belly and under tail-coverts buff or more or less barred. 



Young. In the immature bird the head is transversely 

 barred above, either with or without indications of metallic 

 colour according to age. The plumage is more rufous 

 beneath, especially on the breast. The chestnut spot on the 

 outer tail-feathers is brighter, and the tail-feathers are 

 tipped with rufous. Wing 7 to 7 "5 inches, bill from gape 1, 

 tail 7*5 to 8, tarsus 0*9. 



Iris white, surrounded by a rim of pale lilac ; orbital skin 

 grey, with an inner rim of purple ; bill blackish ; legs pur- 

 plish pink (W.R.). 



Hob. This species is found throughout all the hill-ranges 

 of Northern India (as far west as Nepal), Assam, Munipur, 

 Burma, and Tenasserim. It probably extends across Yunnan 

 and Southern China, but it has not been recorded thence ; 

 it reappears, however, in Hainan in the following race. 



2. Macropygia swinhoii. 



Coccyzura minor, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 397 (Hainan). 



This is a very dark race of M. tusalia, which, so far as is 

 known, is peculiar to the island of Hainan. The transverse 

 bars on the tail are nearly obsolete in some specimens. It 

 is really not smaller than the typical race, although, from 

 the make-up of the skins, it would appear so. I have 

 therefore thought it best to supersede so inappropriate a 

 title as " minor." 



Hab. Hainan. 



