. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 458 MFsciCAPiDJi:. Adult female. General colour above dull olivaceous, the head and nape greyer ; sides of head, cheeks, and ear-coverts ashy grey, with lio-hter shaft-lines to the ear-coverts ; lores dull white ; feathers round the eye huffy whitish ; wing-coverts and quills ashy brown, edo-ed with the same colour as the back, rather more fulvescent on the greater coverts and quills : tail dull brown, externally pale rufous ; under surface of body white, the fore neck, breast, and sides of body ashy fulvous : under wing-coverts and axillaries wh
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 458 MFsciCAPiDJi:. Adult female. General colour above dull olivaceous, the head and nape greyer ; sides of head, cheeks, and ear-coverts ashy grey, with lio-hter shaft-lines to the ear-coverts ; lores dull white ; feathers round the eye huffy whitish ; wing-coverts and quills ashy brown, edo-ed with the same colour as the back, rather more fulvescent on the greater coverts and quills : tail dull brown, externally pale rufous ; under surface of body white, the fore neck, breast, and sides of body ashy fulvous : under wing-coverts and axillaries white, the edge of the wiug olivaceous brown. Total length 5-8 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 3, tail 2-5, tarsus 0-7. Hah. Northern Tenasserim provinces, Java, Eorneo. a, h. 5 ad. sk. East Java. A. E. Wallace, Esq. [0.]. c. 5 ad. sk. Sarawak, Borneo. Henry Everett, Esq. [C.]. 67. DIGENEA. ,„ Digvnea, Hodgsoii, P. Z. S. 1845, p. 20 D. leucomelanura. Autliipes, Bli/th, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 122 (1847).. D. Foot of Digenea nioniliger. Bmnje. Himalaya Mountains, Burmese countries to Tenasserim, Sumatra. Key to the Species. a. Above grey, with a bright blue eyebrow and forehead. a'. Below greyish white leucomelanura c?, p. 459. h'. Below fawn-colour cerviniventris cS , p. 460. b. Above rufous or olive-brovra. e'. With no white gorget, the throat being pale yellowish buiF leucomelanura J , p. 459. d'. With a distinct white gorget, surrounded by a line of black. a". Ear-coverts and sides of face olive. . moniliger, p. 460. h". Ear-coverts and sides of face rufous. a'". Forehead pale orange-buff suhmonUiger, p. 461. b'". Forehead rufous solitaria, p. 46]. throat, upper breast, abdomen, vent, lower tail-coverts, wing-lining, and axil- laries pure white; a broad greyish olivaceous pectoral band ; sides tinged with the same colour. Length 6'25 inches, tail 2"9, wing 31, bill from forehead straight to point O'T, tarsus 0'65. {Hume.) Hab. Please note
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