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with the spots that radiate from the end ; the middle of the 

 abdomeii,vent and lower tail-coverts pale fawny to pale fulvous, 

 generally more buffy on the coverts, and rarely with a very faint 

 ochraceous tinge there ; the sides and flanks browner, in some 

 darker, in others paler, occasionally with an earthy olivaceous 

 tinge ; sides of the neck behind the black eye-line, entire mantle 

 (except primary greater coverts), tertiaries and outer webs of 

 secondaries {except tips), upper tail-coverts and tail (except 

 tips) a pale dull earthy or grey brown, variously tinged in 

 various parts, and in different specimens with olivaceous, 

 fulvous or very pale ochraceous. One specimen has the entire 

 upper parts tinged with this latter ; more generally this is 

 chiefly seen about the rump and shorter upper tail-coverts. 

 Another is almost entirely grey brown, with only traces of 

 fulvous tinges here and there. No two are exactly alike. 

 The primary greater coverts are black, so is the winglet 

 sometimes, but more often hair brown, but it is broadly edged 

 and more or less tipped with French grey. The outer webs of 

 the primaries are a clear French grey, but this does not quite 

 extend to the tips of the latest primaries, and these are more 

 or less dark tipped and show the narrowest conceivable line of 

 white at the tip, and have the grey of the outer webs a little 

 tinged with the colour of the outer webs of the secondaries. 

 These latter and the tertiaries have broad penultimate black, 

 bands, followed by pure white tippings, 01 broad on the 

 average. All the tail feathers with broad penultimate black 

 bands, followed by conspicuous white tippings, scarcely 0* 1 wide 

 on the central pair, increasing to fully 05 on the exterior pair, 

 which generally have more or less of the basal portions a quite 

 pure grey. Wing-lining pale fulvous, brownish on the lower 

 primary greater coverts. 



I do not know where God win- Austen procured his type ; he 

 does not specify this, but somewhere in the Naga hills I gather. 

 There is no other record of its occurrence anywhere. 



420.— Trochalopterum squamatum, Gould, 



This was another species that I only procured in the Eastern 

 hills, at Aimole, Matchi, &c., and there it was not very rare, 

 but I am pretty certain of having seen it on the Limatol range, 

 though I failed to secure it. It must be borne in mind that I 

 worked no part of the Western hills, least of all its higher 

 range, anything like so thoroughly as I did part of the higher 

 eastern range, and very probably most of the species that I 

 procured only on the Eastern will hereafter turn up on the 



