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The Plate is unsatisfactory. Southern specimens were figured, 

 and in these the back and rump of the male are darker and 

 duller in colour than is here shown, while the female should be 

 redder and less yellow below, and darker and the pale mark- 

 ings more buffy, above. 



It may be well to notice that the North-Western examples of 

 this species, from Abu for instance, differ very markedly from 

 Southern specimens, e.g., those from the Nilgiris. The males 

 are much more olivaceous and much less red, and average larger 

 I think ; moreover, in the females, the black markings are 

 everywhere, but specially on the upper surface, smaller and 

 less distinct, and the tone of the entire plumage is much paler. 

 I have no doubt that hereafter some one will separate the Abu 

 birds as a distinct species. 



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