AND DRYMOIPUS LONGICAUDATUS. 409 
Eighteen specimens killed in November at Deesa, near Shah- 
poor, Ferozepore, Etawah, Dinapore, Mogul Serai, Chunar, 
Ghumer, are almost without exception in the typical longicaudatus 
plumage, some of them especially being excessively rufous ; 
with one exception, all have the longicaudatus tail either complete 
orcoming. One specimen alone is in the terricolor stage, and what 
is remarkable about this is that it is moulting, and that the new 
tail that is coming is not a longicaudatus tail, but a typical ter- 
ricolor tail. This anomalous bird was shot by Mr. Brooks at 
Ghumer on the 7th November. 
Of twenty-five specimens killed in December at Etawah, Mogul 
Serai, Dumraon, Kurrachee, Kugilmeanee, Jacobabad, Dhama, 
Sumbulpore, Boad, all are of the longicaudatus type ; many are 
perfectly typical ; in a good many the lower surface has begun 
to pale; in two or three the upper surface has lost much of its 
rufescent tinge and is scarcely more rufescent though darker 
than in terricolor ; in many the tails have become much abraded, 
and both the rufescent tipping and the black bar or spot of 
the typical Jongicaudatus tail has more or less disappeared. 
Seven specimens killed in January in the Etawah district and 
the neighbourhood of the Sambhur lake are all clearly referable 
to longicaudatus, but they are decidedly faded, and in several 
the tails are very much, and in all a good deal, abraded ; only 
one specimen retains traces of the dark penultimate bar and 
the pale tippings to the tail feathers. 
Twenty-one specimens killed in February at Sambhur, Kalpee, 
Chunar, the Etawah district are with one or two exceptions 
in an intermediate stage between éongicaudatus and terricolor ; 
the tails are still in every case more rufescent than in the latter 
stage and no single specimen exhibits the bar or tip, but the 
under-surfaces of the bodies have in most cases become almost 
as palein terricolor, and the rufous tinge has in most cases 
almost disappeared from the upper surface which, though 
somewhat darker, approximates closely to that of tervicolor. 
Kighteen specimens killed in March and April differ little 
from the February birds except in that they are, with one 
exception, still nearer to typical ¢erriclor, the tails being still 
less rufescent than the majority of birds killedin February. 
The single exception is a nestling obtained by Mr. Brooks, 
on 27th March 1869, which is certainly somewhat rufescent 
and which closely resembles the June nestling already referred 
"to. 
This review of the series of dated specimens before me seems 
to me to confirm Mr. Brooks’ view, and though I will not 
pretend to say that all the difficulties ot the case have been 
thoroughly solved, I think we may conclude, that the typical 
