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conspicuous patch on the upper portion of the wing; tail 

 brown, the outer webs of the feathers bright orange-brown 

 for three-fourths of their length from the base ; lores, cheeks, 

 and a long supercilium white, the white of the cheeks 

 extending on to the sides of the neck ; ear-coverts brown ; 

 chin and throat black, shading into grey on the upper breast; 

 abdomen and under tail-coverts bright orange-brown; flanks 

 anteriorly more or less white ; upper mandible horny, lower 

 mandible fleshy yellow ; legs and feet in life apparently 

 fleshy brown. Length about 4 inches, wing 18, tail P9, 

 bill from gape 0'3, tarsus 0*7. 



Hab. Procured on Loi-Pang-Nan, 8500 feet east of Keug- 

 tung, in the valley of the Mekong River. 



This species resembles S. verreauxi, Sharpe, from the hills 

 of Western Szechuen and Moupin, but has a longer and 

 more massive bill, and the abdomen and under tail-coverts 

 are bright orange-brown, not white. 



Urocichla reptata, n. sp. 



c? . Entire upper plumage umber-brown, the posterior 

 margins of the feathers of the head, neck, back, rump, wing- 

 coverts, and upper tail-coverts narrowly barred with black, 

 giving a squamate appearance to the plumage ; wings and 

 tail plain brown, the primaries and secondaries edged with 

 brighter umber-brown; lores, ear-coverts, and chin ashy 

 grey ; throat, breast, and flanks umber-brown, the feathers 

 on the thorax and upper breast rather indistinctly speckled 

 with grey ; middle of the abdomen dark bluish grey ; vent 

 and under tail-coverts umber-brown. Bill horny; legs and 

 feet in life apparently fleshy brown. Length 4"5 inches, 

 wing 1*8, tail 1"5, bill from gape 0*55, tarsus - 7. 



Hab. Procured on Loi-Pang-Nan, 8300 feet east of Keng- 

 tung, in the valley of the Mekong River. 



This makes the third species of Urocichla found in the 

 hills of India, Assam, and Burma. It differs conspicuously 

 from the other two species in the darker and more uniform 

 colouring of the plumage above and below, and in having 

 the middle of the abdomen dark grey, not white as in 



