1843.] Mr. BlytKs Report for December Meeting, 1842. 959 



but the dark colour predominating, and the striation of the head and 

 neck obsolete, or very nearly so, these parts, with the ear-coverts 

 and breast, being of an almost uniform dark brownish-grey; throat 

 white, spotted with dusky- black, which forms two cross-bars on each 

 feather, their extreme tips being greyish ; belly and flanks bright dark 

 ferruginous, mingled with the hue of the breast along the middle of 

 the former ; under tail-coverts dusky, tinged with ferruginous, and 

 laterally margined with white : the feathers of the back are greyish- 

 brown, with broad dark centres, or they may be described as blackish, 

 with brown lateral margins, tinged with ferruginous towards and upon 

 the scapularies : wings dusky-black, the tertiaries broadly margined 

 with ferruginous, the other large alars slightly so, and all having a spot 

 of this colour at the extremity of their outer edge ; wing-coverts having 

 a white spot at the tip of their exterior webs ; and the small feathers 

 near the bend of the wing coloured like the head : tail brownish- black, 

 tipped with brown, the terminal spot of the inner web of each feather 

 successively more albescent to the outermost ; upper tail-coverts long, 

 and brown with a dark central streak : bill dusky, the lower mandible 

 yellow except at tip ; and legs reddish- brown. In worn plumage, 

 the margins of all the feathers have more or less disappeared, and 

 what remains of them is faded in hue; the conspicuous white spots on 

 the wing-coverts, and ferruginous margins of the tertiaries, being com- 

 pletely abraded, the former leaving a semi-circular sinus, as if artificial- 

 ly cut away. In this state of plumage, Mr. Hodgson has sent a speci- 

 men as distinct in species. The young have the clothing plumage 

 of the usual flimsy texture, the under-parts coloured like the back, 

 with no ferruginous on the belly; the spots on the wing-coverts are 

 larger and less purely white ; and the ferruginous on the scapularies 

 and wing-coverts, dingy. Appears to represent A. alpinus on the 

 Kachar region of Nepal. 



A. strophiatus, Hodgson. Size of A. modularis, and readily distin- 

 guished by its bright ferruginous breast and streak over the eye. 

 Length about five inches and a half, of wing two inches and a quarter 

 to two and a half, and tail two inches and one-eighth to two and a 

 quarter ; bill to gape five-eighths of an inch, and tarse thirteen- 

 sixteenths of an inch. Upper parts much as in A. modularise but the 

 colours brighter and more contrasted, and the crown and neck uniform 



