30 TIMELIID-E. 



ear-coverts dull olive-brown like the head ; cheeks fulvous brown, 

 minutely streaked with bufTy white ; throat dull white, washed 

 with fulvous brown ; fore neck and chest fulvous brown ; breast and 

 abdomen Mhite ; sides of body and flanks fulvous brown ; thighs 

 dusky brown ; under tail-coverts, under wing-coverts, and axillaries 

 lightfulvous brown ; quills below brown, inner edge of quills ashy. 

 Total length 4-4 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-3, tail 1-4, tarsus 1. 



Yoioig. More rufous than the adult female, which it somewhat 

 resembles ; throat dusky ; under surface rufescent brown, most of 

 the feathers fluffy and loose iu texture, with dull whitish shaft- 

 lines. 



Toinif/ male. Resembles the adult female, but has the head a little 

 more dusky than the back, with a white spot above the eye. 



JIab. Himalayas, extending to the Burmese and Tenasserim 

 hills. 



«, 6. c? ad. ; <■. d Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



juv. sk. 



dj e. (S ad. ; /. d' Nepal (Hodgson). India Museum. (Types 



juv. sk. of species.) 



g. Juv. sk. Nepal (Hodgson). India Museum. 



A, i . S ad. et juv. sk. Nepal. Gould Collection. 



k,l. $ , wj. (5 juv. sk. Khasia hills (Jerdon). Gould Collection. 



7. Brachypteryx stellata. 



Brachypteryx (Drymochares) stellatus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 218. 

 Drymochares stellatus, Gould, Birds of Asia, pt. 21 (1^69). 

 Brachvptervx stellatus, Gray, Hand-L B. i. p. 312, no. 4667 (1869) ; 

 Hume, Str. F. 1878, ii. p. 377 ; id. Sir. F. 1879, p. 93. 



Adult (tj'pe of species). General colour above dull chestnut or 

 rufous, the rump-feathers loose and ashy brown, barred with black 

 near the ends and tipped with white ; wing-coverts like the back ; 

 quills Hght sepia-brown, externally rufous-brown ; upper tail-coverts 

 and tail-feathers rufous or dull chestnut, outer feathers brown on 

 the inner web ; forehead slaty grey, vermiculated with blackish bars, 

 ♦^his grey shade extending over eyes ; lores and feathers in front of 

 and below the eye, as well as base of cheeks, black ; ear-coverts grey 

 washed with brown, and finely vermici;lated with black lines ; cheeks, 

 sides of neck, throat, and breast slaty grey, with finely vermicu- 

 lated cross bars of black ; the breast with arrow-head spots of white ; 

 abdomen and sides of body slaty grey, less strongly vermiculated 

 with black, and with larger spots of white ; lower abdomen and 

 flanks tinged with brown, also the thighs and under tail-coverts, 

 which are vermiculated finely with blackish cross lines and white 

 spots ; under wing-coverts and axillaries slaty grey, with narrow 

 cross bars of black, and spotted with white ; quiUs below light 

 brown, inner edge of quills pale ashy brown. Total length 4-7 

 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-85, tail 1-9, tarsus 1-1. 



Hab. Sikhim. 



