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not the centre of the chest, uniform brown. Face deep ochreous, 

 lighter towards the edge of the frill, where it becomes whitish. The 

 face almost uniform, with scarcely any indication of cross-bars ; 

 eyebrow white. White-tipped hair-like feathers are plentiful on 

 the head and also on the wing-coverts and sides of neck. 



t' . 5 ad. sk. Shillong, Dec. 17, 1877 Hume Collection. 



(/. Cockburn). 

 Wing 14'5 inches. Tinged with ochreous buff below, but not 

 nearly so bright as in the preceding specimen. Face strongly 

 washed with deep ochre, but distinctly barred with blackish. 



u. Ad. sk. Machi, Munipur, May 7, 1881 Hume Collection. 

 {A. 0. H.). 

 Wing 14-5 inches. Barred on the chest and distinctly tinged 

 with oclireous below. Face deep ochreous, with very few dusky 

 blackish bars. 



v' . 2 ad. sk. Soutli Formosa Seebohm Collection. 



{R. Swinhoe). 

 Wing 15"3 inches. Fulvescent below, the cross-bars not very 

 strongly marked, the chest being similarly barred. Face deep 

 ochreous brown, with scarcely any indication of blackish cross-bars. 



3. Syrnium indrani. 



Syrnium indrani (Sykes) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds, ii.p. 282 (1875) ; 

 Legge, Ibis, 1874, p. 11, 1875, p. 273; Rainey, Str. F. 187.i,p.332; 

 Butler, t. c. p. 439 ; Butler, Str. F. 1878, vol. ii. p. 94 ; Hume, Str. 

 F. 1879, p. 229 ; Vidal, Str. F. ix. p. 35 (1880); Davison, Str. F. 

 xi. p. 342(1883). 



The following is a list of the specimens of this species in the 

 British Museum : — 



a. <S ad. sk. Ootacamund, April 19, W. Davison, Esq. [P.]. 



1883 (JF. D.). 

 Wing 12'8 inches. A pale brown bird, the chest barred like the 

 rest ot the under surface. Face uniform deep ochreous buff, with 

 scarcely any white posterior line between the ear-coverts and the 

 ruff. 



b. 2 ad. sk. Ootacamund, April 19, W. Davison, Esq. [P.]. 



1883 {W. D.). 

 Wing 13 inches. Similar to the male, but with a little fringe 

 of white behind the ear-coverts, which are uniform ochreous buff. 



c. 5 ad. sk. Ootacamund, Jan. 20, Hume Collection. 



1881 {JF. D.). 

 Wing ]3'1 inches. Also very pale below, the chest narrowly 

 barred with brown like the rest of the underparts. Face uniform 

 deep ochreous, with scarcely any indication of dusky cross-barring 

 anywhere. 



d. 2 ad. sk. Kotagherry, Nilghiris, Feb. 28, Hume Collection. 



1874 {Miss Coclburn). 

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