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A single specimen of this beautiful bird has been in the Museum 
of the East India Company for a number of years, collected in Dar- 
jeeling by F. T. Pearson, Esq. ; and B. H. Hodgson, Esq., has brought 
home several examples from Nepal. 
Genus DrymoicA, Swains, p. s. d. 
9. Drymoica nipalensis, Hodgson. 
Above rufous brown ; wings dusky brown, the primaries exteriorly 
and secondaries interiorly and exteriorly margined with bright rufous 
brown ; tail rufous brown, paler beneath, and distinctly rayed, has a 
terminal dusky band, the tips being pale but not white ; the whole 
under parts rufescent, as in Prinia socialis, Sykes ; bill dusky horn, 
paler below at base ; legs pale horn. 
Length, \\ to 5 inches; wing, lyf ; tail varying from 2% to 3; 
bill to front, ; to gape, ; tarsi, ; middle toe and claw, T 8 T ; 
hind ditto, ^ . 
Hab. Nepal (No. 913, Hodgs. Catal.). 
