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and also less rufescent on the central than on the lateral 

 rectrices ; the tips of all the tail feathers are rufous, paling into 

 white at the extreme points ; the chin and throat are an 

 immaculate fulvous white ; the hinder part of the ear-coverts 

 are fulvous mingled with black ; the sides of the neck are 

 fulvous with well-marked black shaft marks; on the lower 

 breast, flanks, abdomen, and outer sides of the thighs the portion 

 of the feather not occupied by the black shaft mark is a rich 

 rufous, the shaft marks being broader on the flanks than else- 

 where ; the lower abdomen is an immaculate fulvous. The 

 crissum fulvous, transversely barred with blackish brown ; 

 the axillaries are blackish brown, with about six fulvous spots 

 on each web, and the under wing-coverts are transversely, but 

 irregularly, barred with dark brown and different shades of 

 fulvous. 



I am also indebted to the kindness of Mr. Hume for the 

 loan of two other immature Madras specimens ; one of these, 

 apparently a female, was obtained in the month of November. 

 It measures : — 



This, bird closely resembles the young Madras male, but 

 though probably actually younger, has apparently in conse- 

 quence of being at large, and therefore more exposed to the 

 action of the elements, receded somewhat from the nestlino* 

 plumage which (if my view is correct) the young Madras 

 male retains almost in perfection. Thus in the present speci- 

 men the brown of the upper parts is much less tinged with 

 black than in the preceding one ; the nape is less conspicuously 

 rufescent, and the rufous edgings to the feathers of the mantle 

 have disappeared almost everywhere, except on the lower 

 back and upper tail-coverts ; the rufescent rnarkings on the 

 lateral rectrices are small and less rufous than in the young 

 male, and on the central pair the corresponding markings are 

 of a greyish brown, and very indistinct; the lower parts 

 scarcely dificr from the young male, except in all the tints 

 being slightly duller, and in the lower abdomen being rufous 

 with dark brown shaft marks to the feathers. 



The Norwich Museum possesses a very similar female from 

 Northern India, but with rufous spots on the inner webs of 

 the tertials, and indistinct greyish spots on the outer webs of 

 those feathers ; also with six rows of rufous spots on both 

 webs of all the rectrices, but more distinctly marked on the 

 lateral feathers than on the central pair. In this specimen 



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