22. HODGSOSItJo. 81 



deeper chestnut colour of the upper parts and in the absence of 

 ashy-grey margins to the up])er wing-covcrts, which are obscurely 

 edged with ashy fulvous ; " bill black, with the basal half of lower 

 mandible yellow ; legs dusky yellowish white ; iris pinkish grey " 

 {R. G. W. li.) ; upper aud half the lower mandible black ; rest of 

 lower mandible, legs, feet, and claws fleshy yellow ; iris greyish 

 brown (IT. Davison). Total length 7*2 inches, culmen 0"7, wing 3, 

 tail 3'1, tarsus 0-95. (Mus. R. G. Wardlaw Ramsat/.) 



Sexes alike in plumage. A female measured : — Length 7'25, bill 

 from gape 0-8, wing 3, tail 3, tarsus 0-92 (Hume). 



The present species replaces the foregoing in the hills of Xaren- 

 nee and Tenasserim. It is not very distinct from the last-named 

 bird, some examples of which are almost as dark as L. saturata. 

 The fulvous margins to the lesser wing-coverts may be the remains 

 of young plumage and become grey in the old bird, in which case 

 the Karen species could scarcely be separated from the Sikkim bird. 



22. HODGSONIUS. 



Type. 



Bradypterus, Hodys. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 83 



(1844, nee Swains.) H. phoenicuroides. 



Bradybates, Gray, Ge7i. B. i. p. 181 (1846, nee 



Tsehudi) H. phoenicuroides. 



Hodgsonius, Bp. Consp. i. p. .300 (18-jO) H. phcenicuroidea. 



Foot of Hodgsonius phoenicuroides. 



Rawje. Himalayas from Cashmir eastwards to Bootan ; Moupin 

 and Kansu Mountains in Western China. 



1. Hodgsonius phoenicuroides. 



Calliope phoenicuroides, Ilodgs. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus., Passeres, 



pi. 93 (no. 817). 

 Bradj-pterus phoenicuroides, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Mise. p. 83 



(1844) ; Gray, Cat. Mamm. etc. Nepal pres. Hodgs. p. 70, App. 



p. 153 (1846). 

 Bradybates phoenicuroides, Gj-ay, Gen. B. i. p. 181 (1846). 

 Sylvania phcenicuroides, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xvi. p. ]36 (1847) ; 



'id. Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 178 (1849). 

 Hodgsonius phcenicuroides, Bp. Consp. i. p. 300 (1850) ; Horsf. <§• 



Moure, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. .39o (18")4); Jerd. B. Ind. i. 



p. 497 (1862) ; Gray. Hand-l. B. i. p. 2:.'3, no. 3192 (1869) : Hume, 



Ibis, 1870, p. ")29; Jei-d. Ibis, 1872, p. 1.32; Hume Sf Henderson, 



Lahore to Yark. p. 187, pi. vi. (1873) ; Prjcical.tki iti Daicsou 

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