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greyish towards the tips, the grey colour also tinging the sides of neek. 

 Lower plumage very soft, luteo-rufescent whitish, white on chin and ab- 

 domen ; tigh coverts and lower tail coverts pale rufous. Tail above with 

 rather close, but not very distinct, dull cross bars, all except the two centre 

 feathers with an indistinct subterminal dark band and a well developed dull 

 white tip. Bill above dark brown, paler towards the edges and below ; feet 

 pale fleshy. 



Length about 7 inches ; wing 2"05 to 2"20 ; tail 2"75 ; tarsus 075 ; 

 bill at front 0'42, from gape 062 inch. (These measurements are taken 

 from two carbolised specimens.) 



This is undoubtedly the bird which Blyth first noticed as distinct from 

 D. sylvaticus, naming it subsequently D. Jerdoni, but uniting it afterwards 

 with D. longicaudatus. Jerdon (Birds, India, II, p. 180) doubts the cor- 

 rectness of this identification, and very properly so, I think. I have carefully 

 compared the type specimen, presented by Jerdon, and I have no doubt that 

 it is a distinct and good species. The type measures : wing 2*1, tail 2 '6, 

 tarsus 0"72 inch., (bill imperfect). This type specimen exactly agrees in 

 plumage with those from Kac'hh, and there is another specimen received since 

 by the Indian Museum from Nagpur, very likely presented by W. T. 

 Blanford. It is also exactly of the same size, as the type. 



I found the species not unfrequently between low bushes, but secured 

 only two specimens, which I prepared with carbolic acid. Mr. Hume kindly 

 informed me that he named the bird Drymoipus rufescens, noting the 

 distinctions from allied Indian species.* 



544. Deymoipus longicaudatus. 



In two specimens shot on 26th December, the primaries are edged with 

 yery pale rufous. There is no dark subterminal band on the tail, b\it all 

 except the middle feathers pass into albescent towards the tips, which are 

 conspicuously narrowed in one specimen. Lores, supercilium and round the 

 eye white. The two specimens were procured in moderately high grass at 

 the edge of a tank near the village Wandra, in the S. Western part of 

 Kachh. Wing 2"85 and 2"95 ; tail 2'4 and 2"8 ; tarsus 075, bill at front 

 0-42 inch. 



551. FEANKDmiA Buchajstani ? (an Cleglwrnim J erdon). 



Out of three specimens shot in November and December, in one the 

 upper coloration is rufescent brown and the head above almost quite rufous 



* Since my account was written, Mr Hume's description of the bird appeared 

 in ' Ibis,' vol. ii, No. 6, for 1872, p. 110. A full account of the bird will be found iu 

 that place. Mr. Hume gives the wing of a male as 262 inches, and the tail 3'3S, 

 tarsus 0'95, and bill at front 0"5 inch. Other specimens are smaller, particularly the 

 young, and the females, he says, are always much smaller than the males. (Septb. 

 1872. 



