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the rest of the upper mandible dull black ; the irides deep 

 crimson, or crimson lake. 



The following- are the original descriptions : — 



First.— Blyth's J. A. S. B., XXVIII, 41 4, 1859. 



" Turdinus guttatns, Tickell, N. S. — This deviates a little 

 from the three* species previously described, in not having tbe 

 feathers darkf margined (as in most Oreocincla), while the 

 speckling of the sides of the neck is peculiar. Colour is rich 

 deep ruddy-brown, more rufescent on the tail-coverts and tail ; 

 the throat pure white, bordered on either side with a black 

 moustache, above which is a white spot; rest of the lower 

 parts deep rufo-ferruginous, tinged with fuscous on the flanks 

 and lower tail-coverts, and shewing a slight medial whitish 

 line; loral feathers black with greyish-white lateral edo-es; 

 the frontal feathers stiff as usual ; ear-coverts brown ; behind 

 the eye an ill-defined streak, and behind the ear-coverts a great 

 patch of feathers, each having an oval white mark set off with 

 black, and other feathers thus marked across the nape ; bill 

 plumbeous ; and legs plumbeous brown. " Female. — Irides 

 sepia."| Length, 6 in., of wing 2| in. ; and tail t\ in.; 

 the plumage extremely copious over the rump; bill to gape 

 1 in. ; and tarsi 1 in." 



Second.— Tickell's J. A. S. B., XXVIII, 450, 1859. 



u 3. Sphenurid^e. — Turdinus (Blyth). guttatus (mini). Spec. 

 female. March 2nd, 1859. Woods near Theethoungplee, 

 3,000 feet, 



Dimensions. — Length, 6fV ; wing, 2|^ ; tail, 2£ ; bill, -f \ ; 

 tarsus, l-'-y; mid toe, T 3 4 . 



" Details. — Typical. (See Appendix to Blyth 's report for 

 December Meeting, 1842. Continued from Vol XII, p. 1011, 

 Journal As. Soc.) 



" Plumage of front, lores, and chin stiff and setaceous ; but 

 rictal bristles not much developed. 



Color. — Female. Iris sepia. Lids nude and dull smalt ; bill 

 horn} r , dark on cul men, pale and livid ou crura ; legs horny; 

 claws pale. 



" Crown and upper parts rich vinous olive-brown, brighten- 

 ing to full vinous, rusty ou upper tail-coverts and outer webs 



* Viz. T. macrodaciylus, the type of the genus, J. A. S. B. XIII, 382, 1841 ; 

 and T. crispifrons and brevicaiulatus, J. A. S. B. XXIV, 269, 1856. — Ed.. S. F. 



f Although there is no approach to the extent of dark margining observable in 

 the other three species, yet in very fine freshly moulted specimens all the feathers 

 of the crown and back. are excessively narrowly margined darker. This, which imparts 

 a scaly appearance to these parts, is entirely wanting in some specimens, in fact 

 wears off I believe. — Ed., S. F. 



X This, taken from Tickell, is probably a mistake ; all our birds without excep- 

 tion, males and females, had the irides crimson. — Ed., S. F. 



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