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" The bill is black, often, but not always, reddish brown on the lower mandible. The legs 

 and feet are black ; in some, probably younger birds, they are brownish black. The irides are 

 generally dark brown ; but in two males and a female obtained at Mahableshwar in May the 

 irides were recorded as crimson. 



" Of course the yellow strise on the breast are a constant character ; it is present in all our 

 very large series." 



The Marquis of Tweeddale has kindly lent me for examination a large series of this species 

 collected by Mr. Fairbank in the Mahableshwar hills in May, at which season they have assumed 

 their full breeding-plumage. In two of these specimens the lower back, instead of being of a 

 uniform yellow, is more or less strongly mottled with scarlet, a variety of plumage which, 

 although difficult to account for, I have observed in several of the other species of JEthopyga. 



The male and female above figured and described were collected by Mr. Fairbank at the 

 same locality in May; the former is in my own possession, the latter in the Marquis of Tweed- 

 dale's collection. 



Its occurrence in the Busta country, although resting upon Dr. Jerdon's authority, appears 

 to us improbable, and to require additional evidence ; we have therefore omitted that locality 

 from the range which has been assigned to the species. 



