870 Zoological Society : — 



tinges the flanks ; coronal feathers considerably elongated, and the 

 occiput beneath the crest white ; bill black ; legs yellowish-brown. 



*' Length about 5 inches ; of wing 2| ; tail 2 ; bill to gape -j^ths ; 

 and tarse ^ths of an inch." 



A single specimen only of this species was collected in Nepal by 

 B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



2. IxuLTJS CASTANiCEPS, Moorc, n. sp. 



Colour above dull brownish-olive, the shafts of the dorsal and 

 scapular feathers pale; crown dark-chestnut, and subcrested, the 

 frontal plumes short and scaly, and having pale margins, the occiput 

 paler chestnut ; behind the eyes whitish ; ear-coverts chestnut ; 

 wings blackish, the secondaries and tertiaries with pale shafts ; 

 axillae white ; tail black, the three outer feathers graduated, and 

 tipped obliquely externally with white, the next white at the extreme 

 tip only, and the rest entirely black ; the whole underparts of a dirty 

 ruddy- white colour ; bill reddish-brown ; legs yellowish. 



Length 5 J inches ; of wing 2y^o- ; tail 2^ ; its outermost feather 

 |-ths less ; bill to front ^ths ; to gape ^ ; and tarse f of an inch. 



Hab. Afghanistan. 



This species is at once distinguished by the white tips to the tail- 

 feathers. 



•itg wol ) 



Gemis SfiCHYRis, Hodgson, J. A. S. Beng. 1844, p. 378. 



3. Stachyris ruficeps, Blyth. 



Stachyris ruficeps, Blyth, J. A.. S. Beng. xvi. p. 452 (1847) ; 

 Catal. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 150. Bonap. C. G. Av. p. 332. 



The rufous-headed Stachyris. 



Hab. Sikim ; Nepal. (No. 923, Hodgson's Catalogue.) 



" Allied in form and size to St. pyrrhops, but having the crown 

 light ferruginous, and the chin and middle of the throat white, with 

 slight black central streaks to the feathers ; rest of the upper parts 

 plain olive, and of the lower whitish, with a fulvous tinge on the 

 sides of the neck and breast " [in some specimens the crown and 

 nape are bright ferruginous, and the whole under-parts pale ferru- 

 ginous]. Bill and legs pale horn-colour. 



Length A\ inches ; of wing 2^th ; tail 2 inches ; bill to frontal 

 plumes xV^hs ; to gape ^^^ths ; and tarse |ths of an inch. 



Fam. PiPRiD^, Vigors. 



Subfam. Leiothrichina. 



Genus Leiothrix, Swainson. 



4. Leiothrix cinerea, Blyth. 



Minla cinerea, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xvi. p. 449 (1847). 

 Leiothrix cinerea, Blyth, Catal. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 100. 

 The grey Leiothrix. 



