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call and the great variability of the plumage perfectly agree with 

 the European bird. 



59. Cuculus poliocepiialus, L a t fc., (I. 329), is very rare in the 

 interior of the N. W. Himalayas. A specimen, obtained near Pangi in 

 August 1866, has the upper plumage uniformly rufous-bay, with dusky 

 cross bars, being somewhat less numerous on the neck ; below whitish 

 with a rufous tinge on the throat and on the front of the breast, purer 

 towards the vent, all the feathers having narrow cross, black bars. 



60. Hierococcyx sparverioides, V i </., (I. 331), only occurs in 

 the lower hills and scarcely above elevations of 3,000 feet. 



61. Coccystes MELANoLEuurjs, G m e I. (I. 339). is in the summer 

 months tolerably common about Kotegurh, and ascends elevations 

 up to 8,000 feet ; but I have not seen it beyond Naehar, although it 

 usually prefers brushwoods to pine forests. 



XIII. Fam. JSrJECTA&IJSrZDM. 



62. Araciinotiiera magna, S o d g *., (1.860), only occurs in 

 the lower hills about Belaspbor with the next species, 



63. iE'rnoPYGA miles, II o d cj s., (I. 362). 



64. jEtiiopyga GouLDiiB, Vir/., (I. 364). The male has the 

 black on the head, above and in front, tinged with purple, gradually 

 changing to steel-blue on the nape; a purplish spot somewhat 

 below the ear coverts ; shoulder-tuft steel-blue ; throat violet, with a 

 somewhat dull black median stripe, extending longitudinally towards 

 the breast. Supercilliar stripe, cheeks, hind -neck, sides of neck, 

 back, scapulars and lesser wing coverts deep crimson ; lores and some 

 feathers on the cheeks glossless black ; rump yellow, upper tail coverts 

 steel-blue, central tail feathers in the middle purplish, like some of 

 the next edged bluish : the rest are blackish with greenish white tips, 

 the white being especially conspicuous below and increasing towards 

 the outer tail feathers. Wings and their longer coverts dusky brown, 

 with the exception of the first and second, edged with olivaceous 

 green, paling towards the tips ; all the wing feathers are internally 

 at the base white, a little less so on the extreme edges. Breast and 

 belly bright yellow, paling towards the under tail coverts, and on 

 the breast with more or less crimson. All the feathers with metallic 

 lustre have their basal half black, the yellow feathers white. 



The female is olive green above, brighter on the back and occasionally 



