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lesser and median wing-coverts dark ashy brown ; greater coverts pale ashy 

 brown with nearly white tip, the outer ones broadly margined with purplish 

 black ; primaries and secondaries blackish, margined on the outer web with 

 purplish velvety black increasingly towards the tertiaries, which are almost 

 entirely of that colour ; the short innermost tertiary margined exteriorly 

 with crimson; upper tail-coverts purplish black, and all the feathers tipped 

 with velvety black giving a scaly appearance; tail-feathers blackish tinged 

 with purple towards ends, the tip margined with velvety black as in upper 

 tail-coverts; the central pair of rectrix in the middle of each with an elongate 

 broad white patch (5 mm. wide), beginning at some distance (9 mm.) from 

 tip of the feather, the shaft being white in the white area; the next lateral 

 rectrix with distinct white shaft streak, beginning at some distance from 

 the tip, without white margin to the inner web; the third lateral rectrix with 

 the shaft less white than in the second, with no perceptible white margin to 

 the inner web ; the fourth lateral rectrice with the shaft somewhat whiter 

 than in the third, the inner web with very narrow white margin; the fifth or 

 penultimate rectrix with an elongate irregular white area near the end of 

 the inner web, the distance from tip of the feather to the white patch mea- 

 suring about 6 mm., the shaft along the white area white, with white margin 

 to the inner web ; the outermost rectrix with a large elongate white patch 

 on the inner web begins a short distance (about 4 mm.) from tip, the shaft 

 white along that white area; the central tail-feather 18 mm. shorter than the 

 longest. Culmen 1 1 mm., wing 83 mm., tail 71 mm., tarsus 14 mm. 



The type specimen is from Shishaban, Akö District: July 16, 1909, 

 collected by Mr. Y. Kikuchi. It is preserved in the Zoological Institute, 

 Science College, Tokyo. 



Ç ad. Similar to the female of P. nipalensh, but each of the central 

 pair of rectriccs with an elongate broad white patch as in the male, all the 

 remaining tail-feathers blackish tinged with purple towards their ends, the 

 tips being margined with velvety black ; the shafts white only in the white 

 area of the central pair of rectrices ; the innermost tertiary margined on the 



