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almost disappear, though the edges of the feathers are still somewhat paler 

 than the centres, and the whole lower parts become a nearly uniform pale 

 vinaceous colour, without, in what I take to be the perfect plumage, a single 

 spot or streak ; in some specimens, which is somewhat less advanced, a few 

 spots still remain on the breast, and one or two streaks on the flanks. In all 

 stages of plumage the axillaries are white, and the greater portion of the wing 

 lining and the lower surface of the quills are pale satin grey. 



" Male, length. 675 to 7*25 inches; expanse 1 1 to 11*25; wing 3*46 to 

 3*6; bill at front o - 45 to 0*53; hind toe and claw 0*7 to nearly O'8. 



" Female, length. 6-37 to 6-62 inches ; wing 3-15 to 3'3 ; expanse 9-5 to 

 IO'5 ; bill at front 0-45 to 0*5 ; hind toe and claw 07 to 075 ; legs and feet 

 brown, or dark brown ; bill dark horny brown." Str. F. i. p. 204. 



Hab. Central and Southern Europe and N.-W. Africa, Sind, Punjab,.N.-W. 

 Provinces, Beloochistan, Persia, Afghanistan and E. Turkestan. In India 

 during winter only. 



Gen. OreOCOryS. Sharpe. 



Bill deep and strong ; culmen arched ; wings with the first five primaries 

 sub-equal; tail attenuated to a point at the tip ; tarsus strong; the upper part 

 behind scutellated. 



807- OreOCOryS sylvanus (Bodgs), Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. 

 x. p. 622. Heterura sylvana, Hodgs., J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 556 ; Bp. Consp. i. 

 279 ; Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 239 ; Beavan, Ibis, 1868, p. So ; Ball, Str. F. 1878, 

 p. 207; Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. B. p. 387. Cichloramphus sylvanus, 

 Gray, Gen. B. p. 168. The UPLAND PIPIT. 



Above brown, the feathers with dark brown mesial centres and pale rufous 

 buff edges ; wing coverts blackish, broadly edged with rufous buff ; primary 

 coverts the same ; tail light brown, edged with fulvous, the outermost feather 

 obliquely white towards the tip of the inner web, and the penultimate feather 

 with a white tip to the inner web; lores and a distinct supercilium dull white ; 

 sides of the face dull white ; ear coverts rufescent, streaked with buffy white ; 

 the sides of the neck with narrow brown streaks ; throat dull white, with a narrow 

 black mystacal line ; under surface of the body dull white, the breast spotted 

 with dark brown on the flanks and with fulvous on the sides ; under wing 

 coverts fulvous with narrow brown shaft lines. (Sharpe.) Bill dusky above, 

 yellowish beneath ; legs pale cinereous. 



Length. 67 inches; wing 2-9; tail 2-9. 



Hab. The Himalayas. Hodgson says exclusively monticolus, being found 

 in the uplands of the central region of Nepaul. Adam records it from Cashmere, 

 and Sharpe from Murree. 

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