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Chin and throat-feathers white at their roots, with tawny tips, the 

 produced liair-Hke shafts heing brown, and narrow brown lines cross- 

 ing some of the feathers. On the centre of the throat and reaching 

 to the breast a patch of white feathers, each with a subterminal, irre- 

 gular, brown, narrow transverse line, and in some, higher up the 

 feather, a second V-shaped line. The white throat-plumes border- 

 ing the upper breast with a broader dark-brown or black terminal 

 band. Separating the group of white throat-plumes from the upper 

 breast is a series of brown feathers freckled with rusty, and all with 

 more or less white along the basal half of the shaft. These are fol- 

 lowed by a series of pectoral pure white plumes with either black 

 terminal margins or black margins freckled with pale rusty. Many 

 are traversed with two irregular brown narrow lines. These pectoral 

 plumes are succeeded by pure white abdominal feathers, traversed by 

 two narrow V-shaped pale-brown or tawny-brown lines, the terminal 

 margins being white or fulvous. The flank-feathers have much the 

 same character. The ventral feathers and. under tail-coverts are white, 

 some of the latter traversed with dilute brown markings. Rectnces 

 pale grey, tinged tawny and profusely freckled with transverse, mi- 

 nute, irregular lines. Six or seven pale irregularly circumscribed 

 quasi-bands cross the rectrices, but without quite touching the shafts. 

 These bands are minutely dotted with pale brown, and margined 

 above and below with a distinct brown line. Penultimate outer pair 

 brpadly indented on both webs with pure white. Shafts above pale 

 ruddy brown, below tawny white. Rectrices below appear pale grey- 

 ish brown, banded with pallid tawny. Rectrices tipped brown. The 

 long narial bristles are black. The bill is as in the rufous bird. 

 Upper fourth of anterior side of the tarsus is feathered. Wing 4'62, 

 tail 5, tarsus 05, middle toe 0'62, bill from forehead 1, width of 

 gape ri2. 



No. 5, d (?) adult, ex .Malacca (mus. nostr.). This example closely 

 resembles the one above described, but has the plumage of the head 

 of a darker brown. The whole back with a more decided dark rufous 

 tinge. The pale caudal bands more regular in outline and running 

 right across the feathers, and the darker and broader interspaces 

 more rufous brown. Wing 4*75, tail 5, bill from forehead 0'9, 

 width of gape 118. 



No. 6, S (0 not quite adult (?), ex Malacca {mus. nostr.). In 

 general tone of colour this example closely resembles No. 4. The 

 auricular plumes are fully developed, and the bill is that of an adult ; 

 but the white nuchal collar is only indicated by a few feathers, and 

 might be overlooked. The scapulars exhibit white all over or only 

 on the outer webs; the white on the throat-plumes is more irregu- 

 larly distributed, while the pure white small spots on the major wing- 

 coverts are more abundant. The rectrices resemble those of No. 2. 

 Wing 4"5, tail 4*62, bill from forehead 0'9, width of gape 1-16. 



An example {mus. nostr.) marked East Africa (!) only differs from 

 the foregoing by all the quills being indentated on their outer webs 

 with pure rufous without any white. 



No. 7, (T {Jide Wardlaw Ramsay) ex Karennee, at 6000 feet eleva- 



