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More recently Colonel Rippon has obtained a female and a nearly full-grown young bird 
of this Ouzel in'the Kalaw district in the Southern Shan States (Ibis, 1897, p. 104). Не found 
the species fairly common between 4000 and 6000 feet. Colonel Bingham has also shown mea 
young bird from the Mekong River, obtained by Mr. W. Craddock in February 1901. 
Adult male. General colour above dark slaty-grey, including the wing-coverts ; bastard-wing, 
primary-coverts, quills, and tail-feathers dark sepia-brown, externally slaty-grey; crown of head 
and neck black, extending over the hind-neck to the mantle, but not overspreading the latter; 
sides of face, cheeks, throat, and fore-neck black; remainder of under surface of body from 
the fore-neck downwards rich orange-rufous, the lower flanks washed with slaty-grey like the 
back ; centre of abdomen and under tail-coverts white, the latter externally edged with .dusky grey; 
thighs orange; under wing-coverts and axillaries rich orange-rufous like the breast; quills dusky 
brown below, ashy along the inner web: “ bill, feet, and claws wax-yellow, more or less orange; 
iris brown; eyelids yellow” (A. O. Hume). Total length 8:5 inches, culmen 0*9, wing 48, tail 3:0, 
tarsus 1:2. | 
Adult female. Differs from TE male in being dark schien above; wings and tail also 
dark olive-brown, with obsolete orange-rufous margins to the wing-coverts; cheeks, throat, and 
fore-neck dingy fulvous-brown, plentifully spotted with black; breast and sides of body, under 
wing-coverts, and axillaries deep orange-rufous.: soft parts as in the male. Total length 79 inches, 
culmen 0:85, wing 4'6, tail 2:65, tarsus 172. 
The female is similar to that of M. hortulorum, but is a much darker bird, especially on 
the throat, which is brown and not white. Ihe orange colour of the under surface is also 
much deeper and richer in tint, and occupies the whole of the upper breast, whereas in 
M. hortulorum the white continues up to the fore-neck. 
Young. Dusky olive-brown, streaked with orange-rufous shafts to the feathers, the wing-coverts 
tipped with triangular spots of orange-rufous; throat, centre of breast, and abdomen white as in the 
adults, but obscured by black edgings to the feathers, as are also the orange-rufous sides of the body: 
* bill wax-yellow, the upper mandible shaded with brown; feet brownish-yellow " (4. 0. Hume). 
It would seem that the male is some time before assuming the black head and neck, for 
Mr. Hume obtained a specimen in Manipur in April which bears only a few traces of obsolete 
buff spots on the wing-coverts; and even if it be a bird of the previous year, it must have 
gone through its autumn moult, and yet it can hardly be distinguished from an adult female, 
excepting, perhaps, that the orange of the sides of the body is slightly brighter than in the 
hen birds. “Bill, legs and feet, and eyelid wax-yellow, paler on the eyelids; ends of the 
claws brownish " (4. O. Hume). 
The adult male described and figured was obtained near Dibrugarh in Assam in a February 
by the late Dr. Francis Day, and is in the Seebohm Collection. ‘The adult female was obtained 
at Dibrugarh by Mr. 7. R. Cripps in February, and is in the Hume Collection. Тһе young bird 
described was presented to the British Museum by Colonel б. Rippon, who FW it at Kalaw, 
in the Southern Shan States, in May 1396. 5 » [R. B. 8.) 
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