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Me Geocichline markings on inner webs of quills, white, slightly suffused with buff; second primary 
а intermediate in length between the fifth and sixth. 
m Bill ochre-yellow, the tip of the upper mandible black; legs, feet, and claws Невһу-осһте; 
ti iris brown (A. O. Hume). * 
Же Outer tail-feathers 0:15 inch shorter than the longest. 
NI Length of wing 46 to 44 inches, tail 8:9 to 3:1 inches, culmen 1:1 to 0:92 inch, tarsus 11 
ы to 1:0 inch; bastard-primary shorter than the primary-coverts, its exposed portion measuring 0:8 
жә? to 0:7 inch. 
nd The female is very different from the male. The general colour of the upper parts is olive-brown, 
iln and there are no white tips to the feathers of the rump, but only to the upper tail-coverts ; lores dark 
еце brown; eye-stripe buff, mottled with brown, and narrow; wing-coverts olive-brown, and the spots 
il buff. The black of the quills is replaced by olive-brown, and the white markings by buff. The black 
did li of the tail is replaced by olive-brown, and the white at the base of the lateral feathers is absent. 
үү The general colour of the underparts is white, suffused with buff above the centre of the breast; the 
aile feathers on the cheeks and throat, and the ear-coverts, are tipped with brown, and those on the upper 
1214 breast are squamated or margined with brown; the lower breast and flanks are covered with dark 
тй brown crescentic spots, and under tail-coverts are margined at the sides with brown. The bill is y 
sum brown. 3 | 
TT Young after the first moult resemble the adult female, but have white or buff tips to the scapulars, | 
inner secondaries, and wing-coverts, as well as the upper tail-coverts. А young bird, procured at | 
май Simla in July by Capt. Beavan, has the throat and fore-neck blackish, with broad whitish mesial | 
кі! streaks on the feathers. It is marked a female, but seems to me to be а young male. | 
"m The Plate represents an adult male obtained on the 17th of May, 1875, at Khati in North 
m ч Kumaon; and an adult female obtained on the 8rd of January, 1883, at Kamboda in Ceylon. Both 
amit examples are in my collection and are figured life-size. 
шиі Тһе type, a male, was indifferently figured, half the size of life, as long ago ав 1847 (Jerdon, 
€ Illustrations of Indian Ornithology, plate viii.). 
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