16 TIMELIID-E. 



Adult male (type of species). General colour above slaty blue, the 

 sides of the rump with long silky white plumes ; lesser and median 

 wing-coverts like the back; greater and primary -coverts, bastard- 

 wing feathers, and quills blackish, margined with slaty blue like the 

 back, paler on the outer edge of the primaries; tail-feathers blackish, 

 externally washed with slaty blue ; crown of head like the back, 

 with a narrow frontal band of bluish white extending over the eye ; 

 lores, nasal plumes, and extreme base of forehead, as well as the 

 feathers round the eye, black ; ear-coverts, sides of face, throat, and 

 breast slaty blue ; the abdomen white, shaded with ashy ; sides of 

 body, flanks, and thighs slaty blue ; under tail-coverts white ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries slaty blue, edged with white ; quills 

 dusky below, browner along the inner edge. Total length 6-5 inches, 

 culmen 0-65, wing 3-1, tail 2-Q, tarsus 1-1. 



Adult female. Like the male in colour, but with the lower flanks 

 and under tail-coverts tinged with pale rufous-brown ; the thighs 

 slaty blue, with a rufous-brown tint. Total length 6 inches, culmen 

 0'65, wing 3-1, tail 2--t, tarsus 1-1. 



Hah. Southern India : Palani Hills, extending to Travancore. 



a. c5 ad. sk. Palani hills. Rev. F. W. Fairbank [P.]. 



(Type of species.) 



6. Ad. sk. Colathoorpolay, Patnas, F. W. Bourdillon, Esq. 



Travancore, 4000 feet, [C.]. 



April 16, 1880. 



c. 9 ad. sk. Mvnall, Travancore, April F. W. Bourdillon, Esq. 



IG, 187U. [C.]. 



3. Callene rufiventris. 



Phfenicura major, Jer<?. Madr. Journ. xiii. p. 170 (1844)*; Blyth, 



Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 178. 

 Callene rufiventris t, ^«-rf. B. LhI. i. p. 49o (18G2); id. Ibis, 1872, 



p. 132; Hume, Nests <$■ Egys Ind. B. p. 219 (1873); id. Sir. F. 



1879, p. 93. 



Adult male. General colour above slaty grey, the long feathers on 

 the sides of the rump with silky white bases ; lesser and median 

 wing-coverts like the back ; greater coverts and quills dusky blackish, 

 externally edged with slaty grey ; tail-feathers dusky, externally 

 washed with slaty grey ; lores and nasal plumes blackish, the former 

 washed with slaty, the forehead showing an indistinct band of paler 

 slaty blue ; sides of face and throat slaty blue ; abdomen white ; 

 sides of body and flanks ochreous buff ; thighs grey ; under tail- 

 coverts brighter fulvous ; under wing-coverts and axillaries ochreous 

 buff, the latter with grey bases ; quills below dusky brown, with 



* Dr. Jerdon having himself altered (though most unhappily) the name of 

 this species, I have respected his wishes, although strictly speaking it should 

 bear the cognomen of major. 



t A bad name for the sjoecies, the belly not being rufuus at all, but white, 

 the rufous colour being on the sides of the body. 



