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Below the colour is an almost immaculate rufous brown, palest 

 and highest on the abdomen, but well vermiculated with dark brown 

 on the under tail coverts and flanks. 



Colours of soft parts. — As in I. emeritus. 



Measurements. — Practically the same as in I. cruentus. 



Young Male. — After first autumn moult, like the adult, but re- 

 taining more mottling on the inner secondaries and with less green 

 on the lower plumage. 



Nestling. — Whole upper plumage with the feathers of the mantle, 

 scapulars and wing coverts, marked with blackish brown and with 

 pale fulvous tips. Remainder of back and head less distinctly 

 marked. Quills mottled with rufescent fulvous and blackish brown. 



I cannot separate Bianchi's subspecies heregoivshii from typical 

 sinensis. There are three of Beregowskii's specimens in the British 

 Museum Collection which are indistinguishable in every respect 

 from many individual specimens of typical sinensis. 



(To he continued.^ 



