1 68 THE NEPAL KOKLASS. 



Females. — Length, 2roto 22*0 ? ; expanse, 27*0 to 28*0 ; wing, 

 8*i to 8'6; tail from vent, yo to 8 f o? ; tarsus, 2*2 to 2*5 ; bill 

 from gape, 1*15 to 1*25. Weight, i*8 oz. to 1*14 oz. 



The weights are probably too small, as wild birds always fall off 

 much in confinement. 



The irides were deep brown ; the bill black or dusky, greyish 

 or yellowish horny at tip of upper and base of lower mandible, 

 and sometimes over a considerable portion of this latter. 

 The legs and feet varied from dingy plumbeous, bluish dusky 

 or bluish grey to dingy lavender horny; the claws blackish to 

 dusky horny ; orbits clad with feathers ; the lower eyelid whitish 

 fleshy. 



THE Plate, though taken from a Nepal specimen, hardly suffi- 

 ciently brings out the characteristic features of the species, and 

 the lower parts of the male are wrongly coloured, being really a 

 rich deep chestnut. 



Outside OUR limits at least two species of Koklassare known — 

 one, P. xanthospilay from the north-east of China and Eastern 

 Thibet, and the other, P. darwini y from South- Eastern China. 



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