80 TIMELIID.E. 



rufous as in the supposed E. leiwoptera, has not such broad white 

 endings to the wing-coverts (whence the wing-bars are not so 

 distinct), has more numerous and darlcer spots on the lower throat 

 and foro neck, less white at the end of the tail-feathers, but a much 

 more extended subtcrminal mark of black. 



21. LIOPTILA. 



Type. 



Leioptila, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xvi. p. 450 (1847) .... L. annectens. 



Rawje. Eastern Himalayas, extending to the hills of Assam, 

 Burmah, and Tenasserim. 



1. Lioptila annectens. 



Leioptila annectans, Blyth, J. A. S. Bern/, xvi. p. 450 (1847) ; id. Cat. 



B. Mits. As. Soc. p. 337 (1849) ; Je'rd. B. Ind. ii. p. 24rf (18(33) ; 



Godiuin-Amten, J. A. S. Beng. xxxix. p. 109 (1870). 

 Cutia annectans, Gray, Hand- 1. B. i. p. 314, no. 4690 (1869). 

 Lioptila annectans, Hume, Sir. F. 1877, p. 110 ; id. Str. F. 1879, p. 104. 



Adult. General colour above rich orange-chestnut from the lower 

 mantle downwards ; upper scapulars black, the lower ones chestnut 

 or bordered with black ; head, nape, and upper mantle black, 

 streaked conspicuously with white, the feathers of the hind neck and 

 mantle white on the inner web ; lesser and median wing-coverts 

 black, the feathers edged with ashy grey ; greater series black, tipped 

 with orange-chestnut, forming a wing-bar ; bastard wing and 

 primary-coverts black ; quills black, margined with pale lavender- 

 grey, the inner secondaries tipped with white, the innermost orange- 

 chestnut near the base of the outer web ; tail-feathers black, the 

 centre ones fringed with ashy whitish, the ends pure white on the 

 other feathers, increasing in extent towards the outermost ; lores and 

 sides of face, and ear-coverts black ; cheeks and under surface of body 

 white, the flanks and under tail-coverts orange-buff; thighs ashy 

 with whitish edgings ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pure 

 white; quills blackish below, white along the inner margin ; "bill 

 black , the base of the lower mandible yellow ; legs pale fleshy 

 brown; iris brown" (Jerdon). Total length 6-5 inches, culmen 

 0-65, wing 3-1, tail 3-1, tarsus 0-95. (Mus. B. G. Wardlaw 

 Hamsay.) 



Hah. Eastern Himalayas, ranging into the Khasia hills, 



a. Ad. sk. lihasia hills (Jenlun). Gould Collection. 



Subsp. n. Lioptila saturata. 



Lioptila annectans, Wcdd. in Blyth B. Burm. p. 109 (1875). 

 Leioptila saturata, Wald. Ibis, 1875, p. 352; Hume Sf Davison, 



Str. F. 1878, vol. i. p. 370. 

 Leioptila davisoni, Hnme, Str. F. 1877, p. 110. 

 Lioptila saturata, Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 104. 



Adidt mile (Karen-nee ; E.. G. Wardlaw Eamsay : type of 

 species). Very similar to L. annectens, and only differing in the 



