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coverts reddish brown, washed with grey, with ashy shaft- 

 lines ; cheeks and sides of throat dark slaty grey, spotted 

 with black, especially along the malar line ; throat ashy 

 white, spotted with black ; sides of neck rufous brown, washed 

 with grey; fore neck and breast light slaty grey, the former 

 with black spots ; abdomen ashy whitish, washed with rufous 

 brown ; sides of body and flanks dark rufous brown, as also 

 the thighs and under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries dusky browii, with rufous edges ; quills below 

 dusky brown, ashy along the inner edge : " bill black, greyish 

 at base of lower mandible ; legs dark brown ; iris dark brown " 

 {J. IV.). Total length 5*8 inches, culmen 0*6, wing 2*3, tail 

 2-35, tarsus 0-95. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but with less grey on 

 the face and chest, which are more rufous brown. Total 

 length 6 inches, culmen 0*6, wing 2*2, tail 2*4, tarsus 0*9. 



Nos. 1939, 2087. '' A peculiar little bird, with a throat 

 like an Alpine Accentor. Met with at 7000 feet, never met 

 with above or below." 



1 have chosen the generic name from the extraordinary 

 tameness of this bird and the Corythocichla, both of which, 

 Mr. Whitehead says, were difficult to shoot from their 

 persistence in closely following the observer. 



12. Corythocichla CRASSA, sp. n. 



Adult male. General colour above streaked, the feathers 

 being light brown in the centre, with paler shaft-streaks and 

 broad black edges ; scapulars like the back ; lower back and 

 rump uniform brown ; upper tail-coverts slightly more red- 

 dish brown, with whitish shaft-streaks ; wing-coverts dusky, 

 externally light reddish brown, with pale shaft-lines ; the 

 bastard-wing similarly marked ; primary-coverts and quills 

 dusky brown, externally pale brown, slightly more olive on 

 the primaries ; tail-feathers dusky brown, externally dull 

 earthy brown ; crt)\vn of head, nape, and hind neck blacker 

 than the back, but similarly pale-centred and showing white 

 shaft -streaks ; forehead and lores white, as also a narrow 

 eyebrow, the latter somewhat tinged with ashy ; feathers 



