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F. Finn — On some noteworthy Indian Birds. 



[No. 2, 



In tins latter the "white fringing of the lower back and rump 

 feathers is so extended that the general appearance of these parts is 

 silver-white, irregularly mottled with black where the more basal 

 colouring of the feathers appears, whereas the other bird's plumage 

 shows here a beautiful scaled effect. Moreover the webs of these 

 feathers in the Ruby Mines specimen are looser, and they are squarer 

 at the tip. The difference in the individual feathers is shown in the 

 accompany 'ng woodcut, (which, however, much exaggerates the slight 

 black terminal fringe in that of the Manipur bird.) 



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anipur specimen. 



Ruby Mines specimen. 



Also in the Ruby Mines specimen tlie white shoulder-patch is larger 

 and almost devoid of dark markings at the tips of the feathers. In this 

 specimen also the longer upper tail-coverts, and to a less degree the 

 grey part of the tail itself are of a lighter grey than the same parts in 

 the Manipur bird. 



Seen together with Colonel Maxwell's bird, the Ruby Mines speci- 

 men seems worthy of specific separation, that is to say, as species are 

 reckoned in the genus Phasiauus. With a larger series of P. humise 

 however, the points I have mentioned would very possibly be found 

 variable, and hence I content myself with drawing attention to the 

 peculiarities of this bird, in hopes that other naturalists may be led 

 to investigate the subject. 



