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side of the neck for nearly half its length is joined by another 

 prolonged from the ramus ; the upper parts are full ash ; the 

 lower parts from the bottom of the breast are vinous or orange- 

 brown, or deep vinous rusty ; the quills are a shade darker than 

 the rest/' 



The adult female figured by Colonel Tickell much resembles 

 Captain Legge's Ceylon specimens on the under surface ; above, 

 the figure is colored a paler slate color, with dark edgings to 

 the lesser wing-coverts and slight dark centres to the scapulars ; 

 the moustache is not confluent ; the chin, throat, and upper 

 breast is pure white ; the rest of the under parts are represent- 

 ed as a rich orange-rufous and entirely immaculate. In ac- 

 cordance with the description, this figure represents the bird 

 with a narrow white frontal line and supercilium, the two being 

 connected and continuous ; the younger bird is represented 

 with no white frontal line, but with the supercilium, though the 

 latter is less conspicuous than in the figure of the adult. 



I have not observed this white supercilium in any of the 

 specimens which I have examined, neither is it represented in 

 Jerdon's figures nor in those given in Gould's Birds of Asia. 



The narrow white frontal line (sometimes tinged with ful- 

 vous), I have occasionally met with, notably in both of Captain 

 Legge's Ceylon specimens, and in three of Mr. Hume's females 

 (from Mussooree, Etawah, and Madras), also in the Futtehgurh 

 female belonging to the Norwich Museum, but it is absent in 

 other specimens of both races which have come under my 

 notice, including the type of F. atriceps, and the adult male 

 F. atriceps from the Punjab in the Norwich Museum. 



Should the presence of a white supercilium in Tenasserim 

 specimens be substantiated by future investigation, the fact 

 would, I think, be curious, and would probably indicate the 

 existence of a distinct local race in that country. 



By Henry Seisbohm. 



In the tentative list of the Birds of India, which has recent- 

 ly appeared in Stray Feathers, Turdus dissimilis, Blyth, ap- 

 pears preceded by a note of interrogation. I cannot find that 

 its occurrence in India has ever been recorded in Stray Fea- 

 thers. It is probably only a comparatively rare straggler so 

 far west. Most of the specimens obtained have probably been 

 examples of immature birds, and have been supposed to be old 

 males of T. unicoloi^, Gould, a nearly-allied, but perfectly distinct 



