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the malar stripe is formed of black spots and is very well marked ; 
with rufous, with a few triangular black spots. 
ours are all more obscured with light edgings to the feathers, those 
Young males have white throats like the females 
n orange-cinnamon, not nearly chestnut like the 
eyebrow and region of the eye; 
fore-neck greyish, slightly tinged 
In the winter plumage the col 
of the red throat being edged with hoary-grey. 
and their first rufous throats are more of а 
adults. : 
Тһе adult male described is from 
from Native Sikhim in the Hume Collection. 
old) from Lake Baikal, collected by Dybowski ; 
from Pekin, collected by the late Consul Swinhoe. 
Irkutsk and is in the Seebohm Collection, and the female is 
The male figured in the Plate is a specimen (not very 
and the female is a young bird in winter plumage 
Both are in the Seebohm Collection. 
[R. B. S] 
