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second primaries very narrowly margined white towards tlie 

 tips ; secondaries tipped inconspicuously with dull white. All the 

 quills more or less margined paler on their outer webs ; third to 

 sixth primaries conspicuously emarginate on outer webs. 



Tail dark brown, very narrowly margined and narrowly 

 tipped with pale fulvous brown ; breast rather pale ferruginous 

 chestnut ; rest of lower parts very pale fulvous ; axillaries white 

 grey on their inner webs ; wing-lining mingled pale brown 

 and fulvous white. 



In the Ibis for 1876, p. 34, in his remarks on the late Colonel 

 Tickell's manuscript illustration of Indian Ornithology, the Mar- 

 quis of Tweeddale says : 



" Having figured and described individuals of the Tenasserim 

 race of Tiga shorii (T. intermedia, Blyth,) Colonel Tickell gives 

 a plate and description of a distinct species of the same genus, 

 obtained in the forests on the Teesta River, Sikkim. Under the 

 title of Chrysonotns bkldulphi it is thus described : ' Iris 

 labelled ' hazel ;' bill and legs blackish neutral ; crown, 

 crest, and entire nape, as well as lower back, silky scarlet ; 

 forehead, ramus, and throat, and all foreneck pale brown ; 

 rest of face and neck white ; a black line from hinder rim of 

 eye down across the auriculars to the scarlet of nape, which 

 it borders for a short space ; another line from rictus down 

 latero-frontal neck; another along lower edge of ramus, 

 joining the rictal stride at end of ramus ; and another branch- 

 ing from the last midway on ramus and joining the rictal-stripe 

 lower down neck. All breast and lower parts, as in Shorii, 

 but with browner edges to the feathers ; upper parts the same, 

 but a broad black band runs across top of black and se- 

 parates the scarlet and white of nape and neck from the gold- 

 yellow of upper parts. Wing, 6 T V ; tail, 4|, (beyond wing 

 If); bill, 1^ ; tarsus, 1 ; inner toe, -j-f-." This form does not 

 appear to have been since recognized." 



As a matter of foot, however, this is an absolutely exact de- 

 scription of some males of the true Shorii. It answers absolutely 

 in every particular to a male of this species which I shot at 

 Kaladoonga just below Nynee Tal, on the 29th September 

 1866, the only difference being that in my specimen the wing 

 is 6*2. The amount of the brown and the arrangement of the 

 stripes on throat and neck varies in different individuals. 

 I cannot understand how the Marquis of Tweeddale says that 

 this form does not appear to have been since recognized. 

 This form is what we in India at any rate all understand as 

 the true Shorii, which occurs plentifully in the lower valleys of 

 the outer Himalayas from the Dhoon to Bootan, and where low 



