Females.—Length, 2roto 22e> ? ; expanse, 27^0 to 28'rj ; wing,
8*1 to 86; tail from vent, 7'o to 8'0? ; tarsus, 2'2 to 2'5 ; bill
from gape, to i'25. Weight, r8 oz. to r i 4 oz.
The weights arc probably too small, as wild birds always fall off
much in confinement.
The irides were deep brown ; the bill black or dusky, greyish
or yellowish horny at tip of upper and base of lower mandible,
and sometimes over a considerable portion of this latter.
The legs and feet varied from dingy plumbeous, bluish dusky
or bluish grey to dingy lavender horny; the claws blackish to
dusky horny ; orbits clad with feathers ; the lower eyelid whitish
fleshy.
T H E P L A T E , though taken from a Nepal specimen, hardly sufficiently
brings out the characteristic features of the species, and
the lower parts of the male are wrongly coloured, being really a
rich deep chestnut.
OUTSIDE OUR limits at least two species of Koklassare known—
one, P. xantliospila, from the north-cast of China and Eastern
Thibet, and the other, P. darwini, from South-Eastern China.