12. CHXttAEEHOENIS. 47 



and ear-coverts black ; cheeks and sides of neck orange, as well 

 as a collar round the hind neck bright orange ; remainder of under 

 surface of body bright orange, as well as the under wing-coverts and 

 axiUaries ; edge of wings ashy grey. Total length 7"8 inches, cul- 

 men 0'8, wing 3-8, tail 3'4, tarsus 1'2. 



Hah. West Africa, from Gaboon to the Congo. 



a. Ad. sk. Femand Vaz, Gaboon (Marche). M. A. Bouvier. 



b. 5 ad.sk. Eio Chiloango, Congo (Lucan |- Petit). M. A. Bouvier. 



12. CHIMARRHORNIS. ,_ 



Type. 



Torrentaria, Hodgs. MSS, in icon, ined C. leucocephala. 



Chaimarrbomis, Hodgs. in Grag^s Zool. Misc. p. 82 



(1844) C. leucocephala. 



Chimarrhornis, Anders. Exj). Yun-nan, p. 613, 1878 



(nom. emend,). 



Range. Afghanistan ; Himalayas from Cashmere to Bootan, and 

 extending through Western China to the Ichang Gorge on the 

 Yangtze Eiver. 



1. CMmarrhornis leucocephala. 



Phoenicura leucocephala, Vigors, P. Z. S. 18-30, p. 35 ; Gould, Cent. 



B. Himal. Mts. pi. xxvi. fig. 1 (1832). 

 Ruticilla leucocephala, Less. Itev. Zool. 1840, p. 255 ; Grag, Cat. Mamm . 



etc. Nejml jjres. Hodgs. p. 34 (1846) ; id. Gen. B. i. p. 180 (1846) ; 



Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xvi. p. 134 (1847) ; id. Cat. B. Mus. As. Sac. 



p. 169 (1849) ; Bj). Consj). i. p. 296 (1850) ; 3Ioore, P. Z. S. 1854, 



p. 30; Horsf. .S,- Moore, Cat. B. E.l. Co. Mus. i. p. 309 (1854) ; 



Gray, Han'd-l. B. i. p. 221, no. 3174 (1869); Scidly, Ibis, 1881, 



p. 446. 

 Torrentaria leucocephala, Hodgs. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus., Passei'es, 



pi. 74 (no. 297). 

 Cbsemarrhomis leucocephala, Hodgs. in Grag's Zool. Misc. p. 82 



(1844) ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 143 (1863) ; Stoliczka, J. A. S. Beng. 



xxxvii. p. 64 (1808) ; Godwin-Atisten, op. cit. xxxviii. p. 106 



(1870) ; Sid7ih. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 358 ; Hume ^- Henders. Lahore 



to Yark. p. 214 (1873) ; Bhjth ^- Wald. B. Burm. p. 101 (1875) ; 



Brooks, Str. F. 1875, pp. 226, 240 ; A. Anders. Str. F. t. c. p. 355 ; 



Prjeio. in Dawson Boivleg's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 178 (1877) ; David 



Sf Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 173, pi. 24 (1877). 

 Chimarrhornis leucocephala, J. Anderson, Rep. Zool. Expi. Yun-nan, 



Aves, p. 614 (1878) ; Godwin-Austen, J. A. S. Beng. xlv. p. 79 



(1878) ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 100 ; Scidlg, t. c. p. 303 ; Biddulph, 



Ibis, 1881, p. 64; Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 40 (1882). 



Adult male. General colour above blue-black ; lesser wing-coverts, 

 median and greater-coverts, bastard wing and primary-coverts like 

 the back ; quills black, edged with blue-black ; lo\\ cr back, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts maroon or chestnut ; tail-feathers chestnut, 

 with a broad black band at the tip ; crown of head and nape pure 

 white ; forehead, lores, eyebrow, sides of the face, ear-coverte, sides 



