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forehead dusky white ; chin and throat dusky lilack, divided on each 

 side with a white mark, fonning- a crescent in the middle of the 

 black; behind the eye pale ash, the rest of the plumage, for the 

 most part brown, clouded and mixed with pale and rufous brown ; 

 wing- coverts, and under parts of the body paler than above, and 

 mixed with grey; bastard wing and quills black; tail brown, 

 marked with seven or eight oblique bars of a darker colour ; vent 

 nearly white ; legs yellow, stout ; claws black. 



Inhabits India ; called Zuggun. In the Earl of Mountnorris's 

 drawings is a bird answering to the above description. It is 16 or 17 

 inches in length, and chiefly differs in having some white on the 

 nape ; the wings reach half way on the tail ; the name Tissah. 



In a second of these the tail is pale rufous brown, with a narrow 

 blackish bar near the tip, and half an inch from this, upwards, a 

 tiansverse mark across the middle of each feather, but not reaching 

 the outer margin, and on the middle feathers a second, smaller; the 

 insides of the quills are also marked with white in the middle. 



This latter was found in the province of Oude, where it goes by 

 the name of Chooah Maur. In Gen, Hardwicke's drawings I find 

 another bird named Teesa or Chooa Maar ; in length 13 or 14 in, ; 

 weight rather more than one pound; head, neck, and breast pale 

 ferruginous, stieaked with brown ; back and wings brown, with a 

 paler mixture on the wing coverts; outer ridge and quills black; 

 belly, thighs, and vent pale ferruginous ; tail rounded, pale rufous 

 ash-colour; legs stout, yellow. 



