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Show 1887.] MR. R. B. SHARPE ON SYRNIUM MAINGAYI. 477 not the centre of the chest, uniform brown. Face deep ochreous, lighter towards the edge of the frill, where it becomes whitish. The face almost uniform, with scarcely any indication of cross-bars; eyebrow white. White-tipped hair-like feathers are plentiful on the head and also on the wing-coverts and sides of neck. t'. 2 ad. sk. Shillong, Dec. 17, 1877 Hume Collection. (J. Cockburn). Wing 14*5 inches. Tinged with ochreous buff below, but not nearly so bright as in the preceding specimen. Face strongly washed with deep ochre, but distinctly barred with blackish. u'. Ad. sk. Machi, Munipur, May 7, 1881 Hume Collection. (A. 0. H.). Wing 14*5 inches. Barred on the chest and distinctly tinged with ochreous below. Face deep ochreous, with very few dusky blackish bars. v'. 2 ad. sk. South Formosa Seebohm Collection. (R. Swinhoe). Wing 15*3 inches. Fulvescent below, the cross-bars not very strongly marked, the chest being similarly barred. Face deep ochreous brown, with scarcely any indication of blackish cross-bars. 3. SYRNIUM INDRANI. Syrnium indrani (Sykes) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds, ii. p. 282 (1875) ; Legge, Ibis, 1874, p. 11, 1875, p. 273; Rainey, Str. F. 1875,p.332 ; Butler, t. c. p. 439 ; Butler, Str. F. 1878, vol. ii. p. 94 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 229 ; Vidal, Str. F. ix. p. 35 (1880); Davison, Str. F. xi. p. 342 (1883). The following is a list of the specimens of this species in the British Museum :- a. 3 ad. sk. Ootacamund, April 19, W. Davison, Esq. [P.], 1883 (TV. D.). Wing 12-8 inches. A pale brown bird, the chest barred like the rest of the under surface. Face uniform deep ochreous buff, with scarcely any white posterior line between the ear-coverts and the ruff. b. 2 ad. sk. Ootacamund, April 19, W. Davison, Esq. [P.]. 1883 (TV. D.). Wing 13 inches. Similar to the male, but with a little fringe of white behind the ear-coverts, which are uniform ochreous buff. c 9 ad sk Ootacamund, Jan. 20, Hume Collection. ' * 1881 (TV. D.). Wing 13*1 inches. Also very pale below, the chest narrowly barred with brown like the rest of the underparts. Face uniform deep ochreous, with scarcely any indication of dusky cross-barring anywhere. d 2 ad. sk. Kotagherry, Nilghiris, Feb. 28, Hume Collection. 1874 (Miss Cocl-burn). pRoc. ZOOL. Soc-1887, No. XXXII. 32 |