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THIELIID^. 



of the neck, cheeks, throat, fore neck, and chest blue-black ; breast, 

 abdomen, sides of the body, and flanks maroon : thighs dusky brown ; 

 under tail-coverts maroon ; under wing-coverts black, lower ones 

 slightly edged with maroon ; axillaries black, margined with maroon ; 

 quills blackish below, inner edges ashy; "bill black; tarsus vina- 

 ceous brown ; iris dark brown " (Jerdon) ; " gape fleshy white ; 

 tarsus blackish brown ; claws black ; iris deep brown " (^Scully). 

 Total length 7 inches, uulmen 0*65, wing 3"85, tail 3"1, tarsus 1*2. 



Adult female. Like the male. 



Rab. Entire Himalayan range from Gilgit, occurring throughout 

 Western China to Kansu, and as far as the Ichang Gorge on the 

 Yangtze river. It also occurs on the Dafla hiUs, and in Aracan, 

 and extends as far south as the second defile of the Irawady 

 river. 



fl. (S ad. sk. 

 b, c. Ad. sk. 



Gilgit, June 11, 1879. 

 Cashmere. 



d. Ad. ; e. Jim. sk. N.W. Himalayas [ Griffith), 

 f. Ad. sk. " 



g. Ad. sk. 



h, i. Ad. sk. 



k. Ad. sk. 

 I. (S ad. sk. 



m. Ad. sk. 



n. Ad. sk. 



o. Ad. st. 



N.W. Himalayas. 



Kangra. 



Nepal. 



Nepal {Hodgson). 



Second dehle of Ii-awady 



River, March 5, 1875. 

 Ichaug Gorge, Yangtze 



River. 

 Himalayas. 



Himalayas. 



Dr. J. Scully [P.]. 



E. M. Langworthy, 

 Esq. [P.]. 



India ^luseimi. 



Capt. Stackhouse Pin- 

 will [P.]. 



Capt. Stackhouse Pin- 

 wUl [P.]. 



B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 

 [P.]. 



India Museum. 



Dr. J. Anderson [C.]. 



C. Maries, Esq. [C.]. 



Major-General Hard- 



wicke [P.]. 

 J. R. Reeves, Esq. 



[P.]. 



13. THAMNOLiEA. 



Thamnolffia, Cah. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 8 (1850) T, 

 Thamuocichla, Sundev. Av. Meth. Tent. p. 5 



(1872) T, 



Range. Confined to Africa. 



Type, 

 cmnamomeiventris. 



cinnamomeiventris. 



Wing of Thamnolma albiscapulata, to show attenuation of first primai-y. 



Key to the Species. 



a. With the rimip rufous; a white shoulder- 

 patch. 

 a'. Upper tail-coverts dark chestnut. . . . cinnamomeiventris, p. 49. 

 h'. Upper tail-coverts blue-black, with 



chestnut bases albiscapulata, p. 60. 



