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only species observed. The specimen above referred to was 
a female, and corresponds with European specimens with 
which Mr. Hume compared it. [G. H.] 
802 {bis), Syrrhaptes tibetanus, Gould."^^* 
No specimens were obtained by the Expedition on the 
way to Yarkand, but Dr. Cayley shot some in the upper 
vinaceous purple, brightest on the upper portion of the breast. Abdomen 
and lower tail coverts white. Axillaries, wing lining and flanks greyish 
blue. Beside the difference remarked on the head, the colours of the 
female are generally paler and duller. \^A. O. J2".] 
* S^rrhajoies tihetanus, Gould. 
Dimensions. — 3£ale. — Length, 19; tail from vent, 8-5; expanse, 30; 
■wing, 10 ; second primary the longest ; first primary, 2*5 ; third primary, 
0"35 ; fourth primary, 1 shorter. Wings when closed reach to within 4*5 
of end of tail ; the longest, namely the central tail-feathers exceed shortest 
by 4*5 to 5. The females are somewhat smaller and have the elongated 
central tail-feathers considerably less developed. 
Desceiption. — Bill and nails bluish horny; soles whitish. 
JPlumage. — Lores and forehead whitish faintly tinged with buff and 
dark shafted. Crown, occiput, and nape white, closely and somewhat 
irregularly but closely barred, with blackish brown chin, throat, cheeks, 
ear-coverts, sides and front of neck, and a narrow band across the back of 
the neck (not shown in Gould's figure, but very conspicuous in adult 
male) bright, bufiy yellow in the breeding season ; white tinged with the 
same colour in the winter. Lower part of the back of the neck, upper 
back and upper breast white slightly tinged vinaceous with close regular 
narrow transverse blackish brown bars. The whole mantle including the 
scapulars and tert'aries vinaceous fawn colour brightening to rufous buff 
along its (the mantle's) exterior margin, with large conspicuous black 
blotches on the inner webs of the scapulars, and everywhere excessively 
finely vermiculated with blackish brown, which is scarcely perceptible 
without close examination except on the upper back and towards the tips of 
the elongated tertials. The lower back and rump are white, very beauti- 
fully vermiculated with dark somewhat greyish brown, upper tail coverts 
similar, but the ground colour tinged with rufous fawn. Central tail- 
feathers with the basal portions similar to the upper tail-coverts, but with 
a slightly more vinaceous tinge and with the elongated attenuated portions 
which in fine males are 5'^ in length, black with a slaty bloom on them. 
Primaries and their greater coverts black with a slaty bloom on Ihein 
towards the tips, the hinder ones with a more or less extensive buffy white 
patch on the inner web at the tip. Secondaries black, but with more or 
less of the outer webs (less in the earlier — more in the later ones) similar 
in colour to the tertiaries. Lateral tail-feathers bright rufous buff, tipped 
with pure white and with several widely separated moderately broad more 
