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A yonng male differs from the young male of typical 
spadicea in being much more richly coloured. The upper 
parts are bright rufous brick-red, with the black markings 
showing merely as shaft-lines on the extreme upper breast 
and neck and as obsolete bars elsewhere. 
The type is No. 1914.9.26.29, J. 8. Stewart Collection, 
British Museum. 
Type-locality. Aneichardi, Travancore. 17 February, 1914. 
Named after Mr. J. Stewart, who collected a series of these 
birds in Travancore, which he has presented to the British 
Museum. 
The race from Mount Abu and surrounding country must 
also be recognised, as it has very different coloration to the 
typical bird from Madras. It is everywhere much paler : 
on the upper parts the chestnut centres of the feathers are 
paler and the grey margins wider ; below also the tint is 
much paler over the whole surface. 
Ogilvie-Grant has already pointed out these differences, 
but dismisses them with the remark that they are merely 
climatic. Blanford, who does not admit subspecies in the 
‘Avifauna of British India,’ says that the Bombay Presi- 
dency bird forms a very distinct variety, and proposes the 
name caurina, which will stand. No type is named and no 
type-locality. I propose therefore 
Galloperdiz spadicea caurina Blanf. 
Galloperdixz caurina Blanford, Avifauna British India, iv. 
p. 107 (1898). 
Type, 89.5.10.1512. Coll. G. King, British Museum, 
7.7.68. 
Type-locality. Mount Abu, Bombay Presidency. 
No type-locality has been designated for Galloperdia s. 
spadicea; this may therefore be given as Ootycamund, 
Neilgherries, from which place Blyth recorded his birds. 
f sae : 
' Dr. V. G. van SomeEREN exhibited and described the 
following new forms from Africa, which formed part of 
a magnificent collection he had recently brought home :— 
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