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young have the superciliary streak, throat, wing-band, rump, 

 and basal outer webs of the tail yellow; the head and back 

 greenish-brown, striated longitudinally with dark marks; the 

 breast, flanks, and under tail-coverts are also similarly striated ; 

 abdomen greenish-yellow ; wings and tail dark brown, the tertials 

 and coverts of the former edged with greyish-yellow. Bill and 

 legs pinkish. The sexes are not distinguishable in this plumage, 

 which was that in which three of my specimens in the Zoolo- 

 gical Gardens were clothed on leaving India in January 1867 ; 

 they have, however, since moulted. 



751. Metoponia pusilla. Gold-headed Finch. 

 This is the " Cabulee Bulltinch " of residents at Simla and 

 Umballah, to which latter large numbers are brought in the 

 winter months by the Cabul merchants, in cages, together with 

 Goldfinches and other birds. 



754. MiKAFRA ASSAMicA. Bengal Bush-Lark. 

 Not uncommon in Maunbhoom. It flies, on first rising, some- 

 what like a Quail, then slowly, with a peculiar soaring flight, 

 showing the rounded wing before alighting— in this respect like 

 Pyrrhulauda grisea as described by Dr. Jerdon (B. Ind. u. 

 p 432) A specimen in the flesh, obtained March 9th, 1865, 

 measured :-Length 6; wing 3-25; tail 2; extent 975; 

 tarsus 1. 



756. MiRAFRA ERYTHROPTERA. Rcd-wingcd Bush-Lark. 

 Rare in Maunbhoom. 



At Umballah, November 13th, 1866, I shot a specimen in a 

 small enclosed garden. It alighted on the ground after being first 

 disturbed, and squatted under a low bush, trying, when wounded, 

 to get refuge in a rat-hole. Length 5-125 ; wing 2-7; tail 175; 

 tarsus -87; spread foot 1-125; hind claw '25 ; bill from front 

 •375, from gape '5 ; extent 9'25. Lower mandible flesh-colour, 

 upper mandible dark horn-colour. 



758. Ammomanes phcenicura. Rufous-tailed Pinch-Lark. 

 This species has a very large, robust bill, and excessive extent 

 of win- for its size. It sings very sweetly when flying, and gene- 

 rally perches on the dry hills near the station of Morar, on the 



