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C. Sinensis : Polophilus Sinensis, Shaw's Zoology, IX, 51. In my 

 Monograph I referred this, with a note of doubt, to C. Phillipensis, 

 but have since received the species from Chinghai, and it is closely 

 allied to C. lepidus, but as large as C. Phillipensis, being very obvi- 

 ously distinct from both. Length about nineteen inches, of which the 

 tail measures eleven inches, its outermost feathers four inches and a 

 half less; wing seven inches and a half; and beak, which is much 

 curved and robust, an inch and five-eighths to gape. Colouring much 

 as in C lepidus, but the head, neck, interscapularies, and under-parts, 

 are considerably darker: the nape and interscapularies are dusky 

 with whitish shafts, terminating in yellowish-white rigid and almost 

 prickly tips ; head browner, with shining dark shafts to the frontal 

 plumes : the under-parts dingy-whitish, with dusky cross-bars on each 

 feather, and also rigid yellowish-white tips, more particularly to the 

 feathers of the throat and breast : scapularies dingy rufous ; the wings 

 brighter rufous, with nearly obsolete dark bars on their smaller co- 

 verts ; the greater coverts, with the primaries, secondaries, and terti- 

 aries, being in course of renewal, and those newly put forth are 

 spotless rufous, whilst the unshed are barred with dusky : rump black- 

 ish; the tail and its upper coverts the same, barred with numerous 

 whitish cross-rays : beak dusky-black, whitish along the edges of the 

 mandibles and towards the tip of the under one ; feet also blackish ; 

 and irides stated to be light horn, or coloured like the wings, though 

 in the fully mature birds I presume they would be crimson. 



" C. Bengalensis of my Supplement may be C. lepidus" — Jerdon. 



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