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indicating- where, in an older bird, a central throat stripe would 

 be ; ear-coverts pale rufous brown ; all the feathers of the 

 posterior portion of the forehead, crown, occiput, and nape 

 deep brown, more or less patched or suffused on many feathers 

 with pale rufous, and all very broadly margined with white ; 

 the crest jet black, broadly tipped with white ; the longest fea- 

 thers 2'8 in length. 



Interscapulary region and scapulars brown ; the feathers, with 

 one or two very broad inconspicuous darker brown transverse 

 bands, and all narrowly margined at the tips with pale fulves- 

 cent or fulvous white ; rump, lower back, and upper tail- 

 coverts a rather paler brown ; all the feathers narrowly tipped 

 with white, and, as a rule, darkest just immediately behind this 

 tipping. 



Tail earthy brown, narrowly tipped with white, with one very 

 broad subterminal band nearly reaching to the white tipping ; 

 two others higher up, and a third more or less imperfect one 

 concealed by the upper tail-coverts ; primaries and second- 

 aries much the same color as the tail, and banded on both webs 

 with dark brown like the tail, and like it white tipped, but on 

 the inner webs the outer portions of the interspaces above the 

 emarginations are more or less pure white. 



Lesser coverts, winglet, and primary greater coverts deep 

 brown, the former narrowly tipped with white ; median primary 

 and median and greater secondary and tertiary coverts, and 

 tertiaries a light rufescent or fawny brown, conspicuously tipped 

 with white, and some of them with more or less of their basal 

 portions white. 



Lower breast, abdomen, sides, flanks, and axillaries white ; 

 each feather with one or two broad, more or less imperfect, 

 pale rufous brown transverse bars ; a trace of the same on 

 some of the tibial plumes ; rest of tibial plumes, feathers 

 about and immediately above the vent, lower tail-coverts and 

 wing-lining cream color, with a slight fawny tinge here and 

 there and unbarred ; the lower surface of the quills and tail 

 strongly barred black and pale grey, more or less of the latter, 

 becoming pure white towards the bases of the feathers. 



As will be seen, this specimen does not, so far as plumage is 

 concerned, agree over well with Mr Legge's description but 

 looking to the locality where it was obtained, less than 500 

 miles north-west of the central hills of Ceylon, and in a hilly 

 region which may be said to be a continuation of these latter ? 

 I can scarcely doubt but that it belongs to the same species. 



