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ruption) to the ear- coverts, which are paler ; a band of the same crosses 

 the forehead, immediately over the bill, and is continued backward to the 

 ear-coverts, surrounding the eye: bill dull leaden-blue, passing into 

 dusky towards the tip ; and feet leaden-brown. The young have no 

 streaks whatever on the under-parts, which are less tinged with golden, 

 and incline to rufous on the breast ; their back is somewhat brownish, 

 and the triangular patch over the shoulders dull white: a specimen 

 before me in this dress differs only from Messrs. Jardine and Selby's 

 figure in having no crimson on the crown, whence 1 conclude it to be a 

 female, and that represented to be a male. An inhabitant of Darjeel- 

 ing and other districts of the Himalaya. 



5. Indicator xanthonotus, Nobis. (Golden-backed Honeyguide). The 

 discovery of this species upon the Himalaya is of some interest, as all its 

 congeners heretofore known are inhabitants of Africa only. Structure 

 typical : length of a female 5-J, or probably 6 inches when recent ; of wing 

 from bend 3f inches ; and tail 2£ inches ; bill from forehead ^ inch, and 

 above ^ inch from gape ; tarse \ inch ; 2nd and 3rd quills equal .and 

 longest, the 1st and 4th a little shorter, and also equal : outermost pair 

 of tail feathers f inch shorter, and penultimate pair \ inch shorter, than 

 the rest, which latter are subequal : bill short and Finch-like, of a trian- 

 gular shape viewed from above, the ridge of the upper mandible nearly 

 obsolete, and its outline much curved; that of the lower mandible 

 less so. Forehead and lower part of the cheeks golden-yellow ; throat 

 tinged with the same : crown and back of the neck dull olive-green, as 

 also the front of the neck, which is slightly tinged with yellow : breast 

 dusky-ash, the middle of each feather somewhat darker ; belly and 

 thighs albescent, with a medial dusky streak to each plume : lower tail- 

 coverts and above the tibiae dull black, with lateral whitish margins : 

 wings, scapularies, and interscapularies, dusky-black, laterally margined 

 with yellowish olive-green, obsolete on the outer primaries, and the 

 tertiaries margined on their inner webs with white : tail and its upper 

 coverts black, the uropygials and largest medial pair of coverts edged 

 on the inner web with grey, and the small external pair of tail-feathers 

 obliquely marked with whitish at the tip : broad medial line along the 

 rump bright golden-yellow, changing to fine sulphur-yellow on the back 

 under the interscapularies, where the feathers are discomposed, silky, 

 and hair-like, somewhat resembling those of the centre of the crest of 



