NOVELTIES. 517 



of the soft parts recorded by him, in the flesh, of a male and 



female : — 



. "Male. — Length, 6*8; wing, 325 ; tail, 2-6; tarsus, 0*8; 



expanse, 97 ; bill, at front, 0*4 ; from gape, 0*56. 



The irides deep chocolate; bill pale horny, yellowish at 



sides of base, pale below ; legs and feet fleshy white. 



Wings reach within l - 8 of end of tail. Shot about four miles 



east of Kashgar on the 16th December 1873, in a low jungle, 



feeding on seeds of Eleagnus, with P. montanus." . 



"Female. — Length, 6'9 ; wing, 3*15; tail, 265 ; tarsus, 0*8; 



expanse, 9"75 ; bill at front, 0"4 ; from gape, 055 ; 



The irides dark chocolate ; bill pale fleshy, tinged with dusky , 

 yellowish at the lateral bases ; legs and feet pale, tinged with 

 dusky ; claws dark horny. 



Wings reach within 1*75 of end of tail. Shot on 17th 



December at same place." 



A male, killed at Tigila in the Altun Artush district, has the 

 chin and a broad band down the middle of the throat, on to the 

 upper breast, where it widens out slightly, lores and a narrow 

 stripe through the eye over the ear-coverts, the forehead and a 

 very broad band covering the central portion of the crown, occi-* 

 put and nape, -black] a short, broad, white, or rufescent white 

 stripe over the lores and anterior half of the eye ; behind this, 

 over the posterior half of the eye and the whole of the ear-coverts, 

 a broad pale ferruginous band, which when on a level with the 

 end of the black eye streak sends off one narrow branch nearly 

 at right angles behind the black eye streak and the ear-coverts, 

 and the other behind the back of the nape, where it very 

 nearly meets the corresponding streak from the other side. 

 Thus this ferruginous band is somewhat " T" shaped, and the 

 transverse portion forms about one-third of a collar. The ear- 

 coverts are pale fawn colour, divided from the black of the 

 throat by an ill-defined nearly pure white band. The rest of the 

 lower parts (except the wing lining, which is pure white) very 

 pale brown, albescent on the centre of the abdomen, and the, 

 lower tail-coverts with darker, (but still pale,) brown centres. 

 There are the faintest possible streaks of pale rufescent on the : 

 breast. - - 



The interscapulary region is pale rufous, each feather broad- 

 ly fringed with pale fawny brown and with a black linear 

 lanceolate shaft stripe ; scapulars similar, but less rufous, and 

 the shaft stripes feebler ; middle and lower back and rump 

 pale, unstriated fawny brown ; tail and upper tail-coverts 

 hair brown, the feathers fringed, the latter most broadly so, 



