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Rh with white tips ; rump, upper tail-coverts, and the two outer pairs of tail-feathers white; the other tail-feathers black, with white bases and tips ; lower part of throat and the whole lower plumary white, the breast with narrow indistinct black cross bars.

The young have the head and back ashy brown ; chin and lower plumage white, the throat and breast mottled with brown.

Bill black ; iris blackish brown ; feet fleshy white ; the tarsi livid in front ; claws whitish.

Length up to 10; tail up to 5 ; wing 3-8; tarsus 1-05; bill from gape 1.

Distribution. The Himalayas from Kumaun * to the Daphla hills in Assam; the Naga hills; Manipur ; Arrakan ; the whole of Tenasserim. This species extends into Southern China. J/nhits, cjr. Breeds in Sikhim and Tenasserim from March to July. The nest and eggs do not differ in any respect from those of the preceding species. The eggs measure about -85 by -65.

633. Henicurus immaculatus. The Black-lacked Forktail.

Enicurus immaculatus, Hodgs. As. Res. xix, p. 190 (183G) ; Bli/f/i, Cat. p. 159; Hursf. $ M. Cat. i, p. 346; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 213 ; Hume, S. F. iii, p. 141.

Henicurus immaculatus, Hodgs. , Elwes, Ibis, 1872, p. 254 ; Anders. Yunnan E.rped., Aves, p. 610 ; Hume, Cat. no. 585 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 314 ; Oates, B. B. i, p. 25 ; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 228 ; Gates in Hume's N. fy E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 62.

Coloration. Forehead and the feathers above and behind the eye white ; the plumes at the base of the bill, the lores, sides of the head, sides of the neck, chin, throat, crown, nape, and back black ; lesser and median wing-coverts black ; primary-coverts and winglet black ; scapulars and greater coverts black, tipped with white ; primaries black ; secondaries and tertiaries black, the bases broadly white and tipped white ; rump, upper tail-coverts, and the lower plumage white, the feathers at the side of the breast tipped with black ; axillaries white ; the two outer pairs of tail-feathers white, the others black, with broad white bases and narrower tips.

The young have the head, neck, back, and breast sooty black, and there is no white on the forehead and about the eyes. The nestling is probably spotted.

Bill and inside of mouth black ; iris brown ; feet and claws pale yellowish white 4. Length nearly 10; tail 5'3 ; wing 4; tarsus 1-2; bill from gape '95.

Distribution. The Himalayas from (larhwa'l to Dibmgarfa in Ai-sam ; Cachar; Sylhet ; the Garo and Khu'si hills; Manipur;


 * Hume assures us that In 1 procured the nest of this species in Kumauu (N. & E p. :i7r,i. Mud I :icc>i(liiiul ^ive the range as extending westwards to this Stsiti-, Imt I liau- MOD im sp.Tiim-n from any locality .--t of Nepal.