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much paler brown, albescent towards tbe vent and lower tail coverts 

 wliich are white with brownish quills ; thigh coverts brown. Bill 

 and legs black, the latter irid dark brown. 



The young bird has the general brownish colour of the female, but is 

 above and below spotted with whitish, each of the feathers being 

 centrally on the terminal half white, the tip itself, however, blackish ; 

 upper tail coverts ferruginous, less in the male, a little more dis- 

 tinct in the young female. The young male has the wings and tail 

 blackish brown, the wing coverts broadly tipped and the tertiaries, 

 margined with pale white ; towards the tips a little rufescent. In the 

 young female, the wings and tail are rather sooty brown, and all the 

 edgings have a distinct ferruginous tint. Bill and legs blackish brown 

 in young males, and light brown in young females. 



This species occurs plentifully, beyond Pangi and about Chini, 

 generally on small streams, it also breeds here ; it is also common 

 in Spiti, Lahul and southern Karnag, wherever any brushwood 

 exists. 



134. Ch2emorrornis (Ruticilla.) fuliginosa, Vi g. (I. 142). This 

 species ought to be placed in Chcemorromis and not in Ruticilla, the 

 beak being towards the tip much stouter and more evenly curved in 

 the previous genus, while in Ruticilla it is more straight and slender. 

 In habits the present species also perfectly resembles the next one, 

 both being generally found near the rapids or waterfalls of mountain 

 streams. Old males are occasionally seen with a few feathers of pure 

 white on the top of the head, and thus likewise recalling the charac- 

 teristic colouring on the head of Ghcem. leucocejohala, Vig. In the old 

 female only the tips of most of the wing coverts are usually white ; the 

 primaries are externally edged pale, round the bill the white has a 

 distinct rufous tint ; the outer tail feathers are white nearly up to the 

 tip, it being grey, this colour gradually increasing until the central 

 feathers become nearly wholly grey, except at the base which always 

 remains white. 



The young bird resembles the female in the general ashy colouring, 

 the plumage is spotted, the white spots below being however 

 larger, and the feathers centrally, towards the tips, streaked white ; 

 the tertiaries and most of the longer wing coverts are tipped 

 with rufous, which is specially distinct on the external margins. In 



