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And secondanes white; forekead, cheeks, chin, mmsiii^Memw ^wg* 



CQ verts, and the apical portion of the primaiies and secoudarieB blacky 

 abdomen, lower part of the back, up|]\^r;ft<^d^Mi[id(^i;iteU-aoKWitS;^^ 

 tail rich rufons ; bill and feet black, .li^i jf^n[ fi j^nivBcj '\u '\h<Si cui'i?. 

 ,, Total length, 7 inches; bill, |rj)Wg*l^iil(f^#ii^^.49rW >i*)ii9 

 ,,t^<«S. Afganhistaun and Thibet*^^^.^^,s.,\ A to (foi)f;ilo(}(|r. oiiiosqg 9di 

 Remark. — This, the largest and one of the best-m^io^j^^^ftfeS-j^ 

 the genus, is nearly allied to the «i«rorea of Pallas. .,j^; ( \y\iAv\i\^ yd) 

 to As)»ft;jtil w'^^u, ^A»1;T'f* i ,ijiiii'ii«ijA lo o'loiU in9i?.B9-d:Hofl arb 

 ...lti.^?r?.l!?^^^^^^^ ^''''^^•f^ ^trrfr.rfrfi tr tnrfl .iTodfi^) ..1^1: otnf orft 

 iS^. Ch. — Upper surface pale brown, finely freckled with grey, and 

 blotched, particularly down the back of the neck, on the centre of the 

 back, and on the wing-coverts, with brownish black ; primaries brown^ 

 crossed on their outer webs with regular bands of deep buff, and 

 toothed on their inner webs with the same hue ; remainder of the 

 wing-feathers like the upper surface, but crossed by broad, irregular 

 bands of brown ; tail like the upper surface, but crossed by narrow*! 

 irregular bands of brownish black ; sides of the throat and neck 

 crossed by numerous narrow bars of blackish brown, the cheeks the 

 same, but somewhat paler; on the centre of the throat a spatulatej 

 mark of chestnut-red ; centre of the abdomen and under tail-covert$^ 

 pale buify white, with a fine stripe of brownish black down the centre 

 of each feather ; flanks crossed by irregular bars of brownish black ; 

 bill pale horn-colour, deeper at the tip ; legs apparently yellow^ish 

 flesh-colour. . ir , i)rfB 



^AtCotal length, 7i inches; bill, -}-, wing, 3f ; tail, 3,^ ; tarsi] <j4oil^Y 

 : iH«6. Afganhistaun and Thibet. yy mb\o 



Remark. — Nearly allied to the Y. pectoralis of Southern AfricaiJ-' 

 but differs from that species in being of a larger size, in the lighted 

 hue of the centre of the abdomen, in the striae down the centres of 

 the abdominal feathers being less strongly defined, and in the unde^ 

 tail-coverts bemg buff instead of rufoiwrj no TJiiJ«yt hnoa-if ad J io Ikd 



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3. SiTTA LEUCOPSIS, Gould. .fjjulo;) 



Sp. €h. — Crown of the head and back of neck jet-black ; aill 4ie 

 upper surface deep blue-grey; primaries black, edged with grey*^' 

 centre tail-feathers blue-grey ; lateral feathers black, tipped with blu^i^' 

 grey ; the two outer ones on each side with a small spot of white oii' ' 

 the inner web near the tip ; face, chin, throat, breast, and centre df 

 the abdomen white, the latter shghtly washed with buff ; flanks and 

 under tail-coverts bright chestnut ; bill black, with a blue-grey base ; 

 legs grey. 



Total length, 5 inches; bill, J; wing, 3^; tail, 2; tarsi, |iii^'»!J?.ii> 

 JIab. The Himalaya Mountains. thtup.od 



Remark. — This is doubtless the species described by Mr. Blyth in 

 his observations on- the Sittin.^ as nearly allied to the S. ccesia, 

 without however assigning to it a specific name, an omission which I 

 have now ventured to supply. 

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