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or patched with deep blue ; ear-coverts in the male deep 

 chestnut; in the female dusky, with a slight greenish gloss; mid- 

 dle of back, rump, and tips of longest scapulars, hoary grey ; 

 upper tail-coverts and all but the outer tail feathers, which are 

 blackish brown, dark glossy green ; quills blackish on their 

 outer webs, with a bluish green gloss ; inner webs paling towards 

 the margin, where they are pale brown ; chin, throat and breast, 

 grey, the latter with faint greenish reflections ; sides of abdo- 

 rx en and sides a lighter grey ; middle of abdomen, vent, and 

 lower tail-coverts pure white ; flanks slightly darker grey ; 

 wing-lining very dark green, glossed. Tertiaries more or less 

 white or greyish white. 



A young bird has the feathers of the head and back narrowly 

 tipped with buffy white ; all the primaries narrowly and all the 

 shorter quills broadly tipped with white; the upper tail-coverts 

 are also tipped with white. The colors generally, but specially 

 the grey of the back, duller, and there is a line of white mot- 

 tling from the chin on either side down the sides of the 

 throat. 



105 quat. — Batrachostomus affinis, Bly. Desch. 

 S.F., II., 351. 



Blyth remarks that Mason gives this species without 

 mentioning any locality. If Mason ever obtained the bird 

 it was probably from the Hills above Tonghoo, and therefore 

 within the limits of Tenasserim as now limited, but there is 

 no reason as yet to suppose that this species occurs beyond 

 the limits of the Malay Peninsular, and Mason's bird/if he 

 ever got one, and not merely heard of it, belonged probably to 

 the next species. 



106.— Batrachostomus hodgsoni, G. E. Or. S. F., 

 II., 349. 



Lieutenant Ramsay obtained a male of this species in grey 

 mottled plumage in Karennee, at 6,000 feet. He notes the 

 "iris marbled buff; bill light madder; legs light madder, tinged 

 violet." 



Lord Tweeddale, in the " Birds of Burma/' fell into the error 

 of uniting B. castaneus, nobis, (which, as I suggested when des- 

 cribing it, is probably one sex of the present species) with 

 affinis of Blyth, as also of uniting pundatw, nobis, with 

 moniliger, Layard. 



This was pointed out, S. F., IV., 376. 



