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and lower back, a duller and greyer earthy brown than the 
nape ; many of the feathers margined broadly with dingv white 
and with darker brown centres, and in some cases inner webs, 
giving a striated appearance to these parts; rump, white ; 
upper tail coverts extending within one inch of the end 
of the tail, pale brown, with a fawny tinge obscurely tipped 
paler; tail rounded—external pair 0°5 shorter than central 
ones ; four central tail feathers, dark brown, margined and 
tipped with brownish fawn color, and the greater portion of 
the webs of the central tail feathers overlaid with this same 
color. The rest of the tail feathers blackish brown at the 
bases, more and more broadly tipped with white as_ they 
recede from the centre, and the external pair entirely white ex- 
cept an oblique black patch quite at the base. 
The entire lower surface, including the wing lining, and lower 
tail coverts, white, but with a faint fulvous grey tinge upon 
the breast; the ear coverts, grey brown; the winglet and 
primary greater coverts, dark brown; visible portion of lesser 
and median coverts, chiefly white, the brown bases of the 
feathers showing through ; secondary greater coverts, hair- 
brown, tipped white, and broadly margined with yellowish white ; 
tertiaries, hair brown, broadly margined and tinged on their 
outer webs with pale fawn colour, and with an ill-defined wedge- 
shaped whitish spot at the tip of each; the quills, hair brown ; 
the first primary white on the outer web, except towards the 
tip, the next three primaries narrowly margined whitish on 
their outer webs, and with a good deal of white on the inner 
webs at their bases; the next four or five with a broad white 
bar across both webs towards their bases, only interrupted in 
each by the shafts. The primaries narrowly tipped with pale 
fauny brown; most of the secondaries white at their bases, then 
very dark brown, and tipped white. 
Recently Mescribed Species. 
Republications. 
Suthora daflaensis, God.-Aust. 
I nave to publish another interesting bird from the Dafla 
hills, Assam, of the genus Suthora, closely allied to 8. muni- 
purensis,* Wald. and G.-Aust., described in the Ibis for 1875, 
p- 250. The difference between them is most marked on the 
#§, F.IV., p. 216, 
