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more or less broadly tipped with white ; an irregular narrow brown 

 line separating the white from the rufous. This lower pectoral white 

 band descends to the flanks. Abdominal feathers and under tail- 

 coverts pale dingy rufous, mostly tipped with subdued whitish spots, 

 surmounted by a narrow irregular brown Hne. The middle rectrices 

 are pale rufous, much freckled with pale brown zig-zag lines and 

 traversed by seven or eight obscurely defined dark brown bands ; 

 slight indications of white on the margins of the webs ; laterals with 

 the white indentations well marked, all tipped with a narrow white 

 or rufous-white fringe, and a small subterminal black mark. Frontal 

 bristiC) tawny-rufous and black-tipped. Wing4'50, tail 450, tarsus 

 j"50, middle toe 0"63, bill from front 0"80, width of gape 1-25. 



The bill is massive ; the gradation of remiges and rectrices nor- 

 mal ; the upper fourth of the exterior part of the tarsus is feathered. 



No. 2, 5 (?). Ceylon {^inus. nosir.). General colour deep 

 chestnut-bay or rufous-brown. This example differs by its deep 

 tone of rufous from the last, which, while of a general bright 

 chestnut, possesses a few feathers on the head and shoulders and all 

 the axiJlaries of the deep shade of rufous found in this example. In 

 both the distribution of the white markings is the same ; but in the 

 present one the white bars and the terminal rufous-brown fringes of 

 the nuchal collar-plumes are more pronounced. The minute black 

 and white terminal dots on the scapulars and tertiaries are less pro- 

 nounced ; there are fewer and less distinct brown markings on the 

 rufous outer webs of the quills. The rectrices scarcely differ ; but the 

 under tail-coverts are more distinctly spotted. Tlie feathers before 

 the eye are darker, although also banded by a black line. Wing 

 4-50, 'tail 4-40, tarsus 0-CO, middle toe 0-G5, bill from forehead 0-81, 

 width of gape 1'25. Structure as in No. 1. 



No. 3, c? (fde Mr. H. Nevill), immature (?). Ratnapura, Ceylon 

 (mus. nostr.). General aspect greyish brown, much mixed with 

 rufous-brown. Chin and throat dingy pallid rusty ; on the lower 

 throat pure rufous feathers, with a broad white terminal band sepa- 

 rated from the rusty colour by an irregular dark-brown line ; no 

 rufous or brown terminal fringe. Breast uniform rusty, with a few 

 feathers on the sides, but not on the middle, broadly tipped with 

 white and traversed with a zigzag brown separating line. Abdomen 

 and flanks pallid fulvous-rasty, each feather for more than half of 

 its terminal length greyish white, freckled with a number of mniute 

 irregular transverse brown lines ; many tipped with minute whitish 

 spots. Ventral feathers pallid fulvous-rusty, and only tipped with 

 vermiculations ; others and the under tail-coverts almost uniform 

 fulvous- rusty, with pallid terminal spots and subterminal brown 

 marks. Frontal feathers grey at insertion, freckled with brown, 

 then rusty fulvous, with a subterminal black spot and a terminal 

 minute rusty mark. Feathers of the head brown, with similar ter- 

 minal marks. Superciliary plumes mostly rusty fulvous or buff on 

 outer webs and brown on inner, with a black terminal dot, giving 

 the supercilium a uniform buff appearance. Elongated auriculars 

 rusty-tawny at base, "freckled with brown, and pure brown at the 



