94^ 
Mr. J. H. Guriiey^s Notes on 
Mr. Hume gives the following dimensions of a female from 
Thayetmyo—wing 18^ tarsus 4*05 ; and remarks, Birds from 
Thayetrayo are the true cheela, a little smaller, no doubt, 
than the Himalayan specimens, but with wings varying from 
18 to 19 inches in females, and of the true cheela type; 
further south this species appears to be entirely replaced by 
S. rutherfordV^^, 
Mr. Hume adds the dimensions of four specimens which 
he considers referable to rutherfordi ; but as he does not 
state where they were killed, I do not transcribe these mea¬ 
surements. Mr. Hume has, however, subsequently recorded t 
another and more northerly locality for the Spilornis which 
he identifies with S, rutherfordi, viz. North-east Cachar, and 
has noted a female from there as having the wing only 
16 - 75 .^^ 
The ordinary adult plumage of S. undulatus agrees very 
well with Mr, Sharpens description { of the mature female; 
but the statement in the succeeding paragraph, that in the 
adult bird the chest is perfectly uniform brown, with no 
trace of cross-barrings on the under surface,*’^ is one the uni¬ 
versal applicability of which I doubt—specimens from North¬ 
ern India in which the breast is entirely free from dark 
transverse vermiculations being so rare that I can scarcely 
believe that every adult ultimately attains this dress. 
Mr. Sharpens description appears to have been taken 
from a specimen which had not newly moulted: in those 
adults in which the plumage has been quite newly acquired, 
all the lower parts, from the crop downwards, are usually, 
and probably always, much more decidedly tinged with rufous 
than is indicated in Mr. Sharpe’s description. This rufous 
tint appears to fade rapidly; and it almost entirely disappears 
before the time of the next moult arrives, except on the flanks 
and wing-linings, where, the feathers being protected when 
* Vide ^ Stray Feathers,’ 1875, p. 28. 
t Vide ‘ Stray Feathers,’ 1877, p. 10. 
X Vide Catalogue, p. 288. This description is slightly obscured by what 
seems to be a clerical error, the words rest of under surface ” appearing 
twice over, apparently in consequence of some such accident. 
