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upper-parts dusky -grey, faintly washed with rufous on the back in most 

 specimens ; the rump and upper tail-coverts dark rufous : lores and 

 streak through the eyes, black ; as also the feathers immediately impend- 

 ing the nostrils in fine adults : a slight pale streak over the eye, more or 

 less developed : throat, fore- neck, and middle of belly, white ; the rest 

 of the under- parts rufous. The females and young have the breast, 

 flanks, and sides of the neck, rayed more or less with dusky : wings 

 dusky, with rufescent margins to the tertiaries and coverts, more or less 

 developed ; and tail nearly uniform brownish, with its outer feathers and 

 the tips of all paler. Common in Nepal and Bengal, and has been re- 

 ceived from Tipperah and Arracan ; frequenting the same haunts as the 

 last species. 



4. L. erythronotus, Vigors and Gould (nee Jerdon). Wing three 

 inches and five-eighths to three and three-quarters : middle tail-feathers 

 four and a half to five inches. Has a broad black frontal band, three- 

 eighths of an inch and upwards ; a dark ash-coloured head and nape, 

 a little albescent in some towards the frontal band ; and sometimes the 

 whole back deep rufous up to the neck, at other times the upper back 

 is merely tinged with rufous. A good distinction from the next species 

 consists in the broad black streak through the eyes being continued for 

 some distance beyond the ear-coverts, instead of terminating with them. 

 Appears peculiar to the NW. Himalaya. 



5. L. caniceps, nobis. Nearly similar to the last but smaller; the 

 black frontal band much narrower ; the grey of the head much paler, 

 and spreading considerably more upon the back, becoming also much 

 more whitish towards the front and over the black eye-band : below, 

 the breast is whiter, and the rufous of the flanks more defined ; and 

 above, this is often confined to the rump and upper tail-coverts, and the 

 posterior scapularies only ; whereas in L. erythronotus (verus), the entire 

 scapularies seem to be always deep rufous, and sometimes the whole in- 

 terscapular region, which is never more than tinged with rufous in the 

 present species. Wing three inches and three-eighths to three and a 

 half, and middle tail-feathers four and a half. A marked individual 

 variety of this species — with grown tail only three inches and three- 

 quarters long, the whole back and scapularies grey, and scarcely 

 any rufous on the flanks, (but its plumage altogether much abraded) — 

 I referred doubtfully to L. minor, in X, 841. The present is the 



