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ith rufous on the throat and breast, and passing into reddish white or
of the head, too, has a fulvous tinge. The female is said, by Blyth, to

feathers of the back, the black Ime
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fulvous posteriorly. The ashy hue
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mon in the neighbourhood of Calcutta, and frequently brought for sale in

Europeans. Apparently an irregular and uncertain winter

want the cinnamon-coloured band

Mr. Blyth states that it is “‘com
the medley of species purchased as * Ortolans’ by
visitant to Lower Bengal.”

jor T ne and s ar Pakree during a march from Simla to Mus
Major Tytler observed some examples, and shot a male near Fé g

sooree.

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| in hi irds from Thi malayas,” states that examples were found at
Von Pelzeln, in his paper on “ Birds from Thibet and the Hi yas,” ste 1

Serahan, Tranda, and Gaora. ;

Mr. Swinhoe informs us that the true EZ. fucata is ‘<a winter visitant to Formosa, sci is not common
there ;” that be has found it between Takoo and Pekin, in North China, and that it winters a South China ;
he has ‘‘ met with it among standing grain during winter ; but it was difficult to procure, from its habit of
dropping under cover of the grain and seldom perching in exposed places.” It is more or less common,
and, he thinks, resident, in Hongkong, Macao, and Canton.

Mr. Henry Whitely informs us that ‘this bird is rather common at Hakodadi. My specimens, shot in
October, had the bill brown, the irides dark hazel, and the legs and toes brownish flesh-colour.”

The male has the head and neck dark grey, with a streak of brownish black down the centre of each
feather ; feathers of the back brownish black, margined with rufous ; lower part of the back rufous, deepest
in tint down the centre of each feather, gradually passing into dull grey with black centres on the upper tail-
coverts ; lesser wing-coverts rusty red ; greater coverts blackish brown, with buffy grey margins and lighter
tips ; primaries brown, finely margined with reddish grey ; lengthened tertiaries brownish black, bordered
externally with greyish white; over the eye a light superciliary stripe ; ear-coverts deep rufous ; throat and
breast greyish white; from each angle of the gape proceeds a narrow black streak, which increase in breadth
as they descend, and unite on the breast, forming a gorget; on each side of this gorget the feathers are white,
with black centres ; immediately below it a narrow band of rufous ; abdomen buffy white, washed with rufous
and streaked with blackish brown on the flanks ; tail brown, the central feathers margined with greyish fawn-
colour, and the outer feather with a line of white down the inner web next the shaft, increasing in breadth
from the base to the end.

The female is similar, but very much paler-coloured on the upper surface, has the under surface buff, and
the gorget-like mark indicated by a few small spots of brownish black.

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