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plumage known ? One specimen, a male, obtained in 
October at Baramulla, Kashmir, is remarkable as having 
the whole head and neck (as well as the chin, throat, breast, 
and cheeks) black, some of the feathers changing to the 
olive brown that these parts always exhibit in winter. Is 
this an abnormal variety, or does this specimen indicate the 
full breeding plumage of the male ? \_A. O. H.'\ 
418 {bis). Trochalopteron simile (Hume). (PI. VII.) 
This species was very common at BaramuUa, west of 
Srinagar, in November, where several specimens were pro- 
cured, but it was nowhere else observed by the Expedition. 
My notes state that this species has a peculiar call that 
may be represented by the syllables wheet-ooi-ooi. The 
length was 10 ; expanse, 12 ; tail from vent, 5 ; legs and 
feet fleshy ; bill black. [G. 77.] 
I have had considerable doubts as to the propriety of 
separating this race as a distinct species; it exactly resem- 
bles T. variegatum of Vigors, except that the ear- coverts are 
cinereous like the nape, and not dark brown, that the outer 
webs of the primaries are pure French grey, without any 
golden, olive golden, pink, or olivaceous tinge, and that the 
tail-feathers are more broadly tipped with white, and their 
terminal halves above the white tippings (like the outer 
webs of the primaries) pure French grey, without the 
slightest tinge of orange, golden, or olivaceous. 
Several specimens killed at difi'erent seasons, and pre- 
cisely similar to the one obtained by Dr. Henderson, were 
sent to me from the Agrore Valley, by Captain Unwin ; 
and with numerous examples before me of both sexes, old 
and young, all exhibiting the same characteristics, there 
appears no option but to separate the race specifically. To 
judge from the series before me, the particulars noticed are 
independent, first of sex, secondly of season, thirdly of age ; 
but it will require a very large series to make quite certain 
of these facts. 
I should add that what has specially induced me to 
hesitate so long in characterizing this form as a distinct 
species, is the great variability of the colouring of edgings 
