SUB-GENUS LILLIA, (BOIE, 1859.) 201 



from all our species by the unstriated lower surface, the bright 

 rufous veut band and the large extent of black on the upper 

 and lower tail-coverts. In both species the young have the 

 abdomen more or less striated, and in this species, at any 

 rate, have dark shafts to the rump feathers. 



L. Striolata, Tem. From Java was thus first described 

 (Faun. Jap. 33., 1840):— 



"Wing, 5-5; tail, 4-95; fork, 2-2; hind claw, 0-23. 

 Bill a little wider and much stronger than that of //. rustica ; 

 the red of the collar and aural region very inconspicuous ; 

 rump with fine black longitudinal lines ; lower tail-coverts 

 blackish, but whitish on their basal halves ; the rest of the 

 lower parts whitish with sufficiently well marked longitudinal 

 black striaa; tail without white spots. " 



Note that by this expression, " sufficiently well marked," 

 it is intended to signify very strongly marked, for a little 

 further on we are told that the striations on the lower surface 

 of japonica are almost as strongly marked as on that of striolata. 

 Now those of japonica are very pronounced those on the throat 

 and breast, being as our authors themselres say from - O25 to 

 0*03 wide, and in my specimen I think almost 0033. 



Of L. arctivitta, Swinh. p. z. s., isn, p. 346, but 



little can be said. I cannot discover that Mr. Swinhoe has ever 

 published either dimensions or description.* He merely says that 

 the bird is of about the same size as the specimens he believes 

 to he japonica (!) is more faintly and narrowly striped on the 

 under parts than that species, and is distinguished from all 

 other species of the group by its extremely narrow rump 

 band, only 07 wide. As he neglects to mention whether this 

 measurement was or was not taken from fully plumaged 

 adults, as the rump band in our Himahrvan bird in adults is, 

 I find, only - 8 in several specimens, and only 0"5 in young 

 birds, this does not help us much. He goes on to say that our 

 Himalayan bird (which he correctly designates, I believe, as 

 nipalensis, Hodgson) is distinguished by its broad rufous 

 nuchal collar, aud refers to Gould's plate of daurica as repre- 

 senting this species. But our Himalayan bird has not a broad 

 rufous collar, but one varying from 0*2 to possibly "25, and 

 I very much doubt if Gould's plate was taken from a 

 Himalayau specimen ; for the striping on the flanks is much 



* It is to be regretted that no full detailed dimensions and descriptions of a great 

 number of Mr. Swinhoe's new or supposedly new species exist. Many of the species 

 remain merely indicated but in no sense defined. 



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