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in front and a broad streak behind the eye of unmixed chest- 

 nut ; feathers of the disc ring, mostly ferruginous chestnut, 

 those immediately under the aural aperture white, those on the 

 chin and throat tinged or mottled with brown at their tips ; 

 forehead and crown between the disc rings, a sort of golden 

 ferruginous; occiput and nape dark brown, freckled with buff, 

 and with small blackish subterminal spots, preceded or followed 

 or both, on the occiput, by whitish spots or specks ; visible portion 

 of the feathers of the back, scapulars, wing-coverts and upper 

 tail-coverts dark brown, mottled and freckled with a rich red- 

 dish buff, reddest towards the basal part of the visible portion 

 of each feather and paling to a greyish white, at the extreme 

 tips of the longer scapulars and coverts, and each feather with 

 a conspicuous orange buff spot at the tip, more or less black 

 framed ; the tail is a dull ferruginous buff, paling at the ex- 

 treme tips to greyish white, with five narrow transverse brown 

 bands, and a great deal of brown freckling and mottling on the 

 interspaces ; the quills are a dull orange buff, similarly paling 

 at the extreme tips, with numerous irregular brown transverse 

 bars, and dense brown freckling and mottling on the rest of 

 the feather. Each quill has a conspicuous buff or buffy white 

 spot (more or less preceded by a black spot or line) at the tip ; 

 the entire lower surface a bright golden buff, most of the 

 feathers with a tiny, more or less triangular, dark brown spot 

 near the tip ; the greater part of the wing lining and the tibial 

 plumes (these latter spotless) are more ferruginous. 



Republications. 



I give precedence, at the particular request of several sub- 

 scribers to a number* of Major Godwin-Austen's new species 

 from the Eastern Hills (Nagas, Graros, &c.,) and quote from 

 the J. A. S. JB. of May 1874. 



Sitta nagensis, Godwin- Austen. 



Was first noticed at Sopvomah in the Naga Hills last 

 winter, and several specimens were obtained on the watershed 

 at about 6,000 feet. It has been described in the P. Z. S., 1874. 



Description. — Above slaty blue; wings and centre tail feathers 

 same colour but paler ; quills dull pale black; a black streak 

 through lores extending to ear-coverts and down side of neck ; 



* I reproduce these as requested, but 1 Lave not been able to verify thetn. — Ed., S. F. 



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