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and secondaries white ; forehead, cheeks, chin, throat, back, wing- 

 coverts, and the apical portion of the primaries and secondaries black ; 

 abdomen, lower part of the back, upper and under tail-coverts and 

 tail rich rufous ; bill and feet black. 



Total length, 7 inches; bill, |; wing, 4^- ; tail, 3j ; tarsi, \h. 



Hub. Afganhistann and Thibet. 



Remark. — This, the largest and one of the best-marked species of 

 the genus, is nearly allied to the aurorea of Pallas. 



2. YuNX iNDiCA, Gould, 



Sp. Ch. — Upper surface pale brown, finely freckled with' grey, and 

 blotched, particularly down the back of the neck, on the centre of the 

 back, and on the wing-coverts, with brownish black ; primaries brown, 

 crossed on their outer webs with regular bands of deep buff, and 

 toothed on their inner webs with the same hue ; remainder of the 

 wing-feathers hke the upper surface, but crossed by broad, irregular 

 bands of brown ; tail like the upper surface, but crossed by narrow, 

 irregular bands of brownish black ; sides of the throat and neck 

 crossed by numerous narrow bars of blackish brown, the cheeks the 

 same, but somewhat paler ; on the centre of the throat a spatulate 

 mark of chestnut-red ; centre of the abdomen and under tail-coverts 

 pale buflfy white, with a fine stripe of brownish black down the centre 

 of each feather ; flanks crossed by irregular bars of brownish black ; 

 bill pale horn-colour, deeper at the tip ; legs apparently yellowish 

 flesh-colour. 



Total length, 7f inches ; bill, |- ; wing, 3f ; tail, 3| ; tarsi, |. 



Hab. Afganhistaun and Thibet. 



Remark. — Nearly allied to the Y. pectoralis of Southern Africa, 

 but difi"ers from that species in being of a larger size, in the lighter 

 hue of the centre of the abdomen, in the striae down the centres of 

 the abdominal feathers being less strongly defined, and in the under 

 tail-coverts being buff instead of rufous. 



3. SiTTA LEucopsis, Gould. 



Sp. Ch. — Crown of the head and back of neck jet-black ; all the 

 upper surface deep blue-grey ; primaries black, edged with grey ; 

 centre tail-feathers blue-grey ; lateral feathers black, tipped with blue- 

 grey ; the two outer ones on each side with a small spot of white on 

 the inner web near the tip ; face, chin, throat, breast, and centre of 

 the abdomen white, the latter slightly washed with buff ; flanks and 

 under tail-coverts bright chestnut ; bill black, with a blue-grey base ; 

 legs grey. 



Total length, 5 inches ; bill, ^ ; wing, 3|^ ; tail, 2; tarsi, |. 



Hab. The Himalaya Mountains. 



Remark. — This is doubtless the species described by Mr. Blyth in 

 his observations on the Sittin^e as nearly allied to the S. eeesia, 

 without however assigning to it a specific name, an omission which I 

 have now ventured to supply. 



