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also Sikkim (Darjeeling) and Nepaul. Its habits are the same as the other 

 species of the genus. Hume says it breeds in the valleys of the Surjoo and 

 Ramgunga in Kumaon, and thence eastwards in all the warmer mountain 

 valleys at elevations of from 1,500 to 3,500 feet through the Himalayas 

 and the various chains and hill systems running down from Assam to Burmah. 

 Mr. Gammie's account of a nest, found by him in Sikkim, is quoted by 

 Mr. Hume, and is to the effect, that the nest was close to the ground on a 

 natural ledge in the root of an uprooted tree at the edge of a shady stream. 

 The nest was cup -shaped and composed of moss, lined with a few skeleton 

 leaves and fibres. The eggs were 4 in number, regular ovals, a little com- 

 pressed at one end, white, marked at the large end with a small cap of 

 densely crowded specks and spots of brownish red and sienna of various 

 shades ; size, 0-84 to 0*87 x 0*63 to 0-67. 



503. Henicurus guttatus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 664; id., 



B. Asia, part xviii ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. B. p. 376 ; id., and Oates, 

 Str. F. 1875, p. 342 ; BL and Wald, B. Burnt, p, 97 ; Hume, S/r. F. 

 1878, p. 399; id., Sir. F. 1879, P- IO 3 5 Scully, t. c. p. 311 ; Oates, B. Br. 

 Burm. i. p. 26; Sharpe, Cat. B- Br. Mus. vii. 316. Enicurus maculatus, 

 pt. (non Vig.), Gray, Cat. Mamm., &c., Nepaul, pres* Hodgs. p. 76 ; Jerd. B. 

 Jnd. ii. p. 212. GOULD'S SPOTTED FORK-TAIL. 



Forehead as far back as the eyes white ; chin, throat, breast, upper abdomen, 

 lores, cheeks and ear coverts, black ; crown of the head brown, the feathers tipped 

 with white ; feathers in the centre of the breast tipped with white ; back of the neck 

 thickly mottled, the feathers white with a narrow line of black ; back sparsely 

 spotted with white, the spots smaller and oval ; on the sides of the neck larger 

 and drop-like ; wing coverts black, the greater series tipped with white ; 

 primary coverts and quills black ; the inner primaries and inner secondaries 

 with white bases ; rump and upper tail coverts white ; tail feathers black, 

 obliquely tipped with white, the two outer feathers entirely white ; abdomen, 

 flanks, thighs and under tail coverts white ; under wing coverts black, the 

 lower greater series white. Bill black ; legs pale fleshy white ; irides dark 

 brown. 



Length. 9109*5 inches; wing 3*9 to 4; tail 5*1 to 5*2; culmen O'9$ ; 

 tarsus 1*15. 



Hab Eastern Himalayas, extending throughout Burmah and Tenasserim 

 and Southern China. It has been procured in Arracan and in the Khasia 

 hills, also in Assam and Nepaul to an elevation of about 7,000 feet. In the 

 North-West it is found as far as Simla. It breeds in May and June, making 

 a nest similar to that of H. schistaceus. The eggs, too, are not unlike those 

 of that species. In size they vary from 0*9 to 1*03 x O'68 to o - 75. 



