82 TIMF.LIID.T-:. 



Rmcky's Om. Mtsc. ii. p. 179 (1877); Datml ^- Oust. Ois. Chine, 

 p. 2.34, pi. XXX. (1878) ; Hume, 1879, p. 93; Brooks, t. c. p. 47G. 



Aci'ocepbalus hodgsoni, Moore, MSS. ( $ ), U7ide 



Callene hodgsoni, Jer<Z. Ibis, 1872, p. 132; Hume, Str. F. 1875, 

 p. 411, 1879, p. 83. 



Adult male. General colour above slaty blue, the wing-coverts 

 like the back : bastard wing and primar3--covert8 blackish, externally 

 edged with slaty blue ; the former with broad white tips ; quills 

 dusky, externally slaty blue : upper tail-coverts like the back ; two 

 centre tail-feathers blackish brown, edged with slaty blue, the 

 remainder orange-rufous for their basal half or two thirds, blackish 

 at the end, edged with blue ; crown of head like the back, with a 

 faint band of lighter blue across the forehead, extending a little over 

 the eye ; lores, base of forehead, and base of cheeks blackish ; ear- 

 coverts, sides of face, and remainder of cheeks dark slatj' blue ; throat 

 and under surface of body slaty blue, as well as the sides of body, 

 Hanks, and thighs ; abdomen white ; under tail-coverts slaty blue, 

 tipped with white : under wing-coverts and axillaries slaty blue, 

 brighter on the edge of the wing ; quills duskj' below, the inner 

 edge browner ; " bill dusky, reddish at the gape ; legs pale red- 

 brown ; iris dark brown " {./erdon). Total length 7 inches, cxilmen 

 0-2, wing 2-9, tail 3, tarsus 1-1. 



Adxdt female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 olive-brown, the lesser and median wing-coverts like the back ; 

 greater coverts, bastard wing, and primary-coverts, as well as the 

 quills, brown, externally edged with olive-brown ; tail-feathers 

 reddish brown ; lores ochreous buff, as also the fore part of the 

 cheeks and eyelids ; ear-coverts brown, with ochreous-bulf shaft- 

 lines ; cheeks and under surface of body ochreous brown ; lower 

 breast and abdomen white ; under tail-coverts ochreous brown, 

 centred and tipped with buify white ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries ochreous buff, the latter brighter; quills dusky brown 

 below, the inner edge of the quills ashy brown. Total length 6-3 

 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 2*6, tail 2-8, tarsus 1 -65. 



Young male. Like the adult female, but having the lower back 

 and rump shaded with blue ; tail brown, with orange-rufous base to 

 aU but the centre tail-feathers, with a blackish subterminal shade 

 intervening after the orange ; on the bastard-wing feathers two 

 external spots of ochreous buff. 



Hah. Himalayas from Cashmere to Bootan and thence to Moupin 

 and the Kan-su Mountains in AVestern China. 



a b. S ad- sk. N.W. Himalavas. Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill 



[P-]- 

 c, d. S ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



(Types of species.) 



e. $ ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



f, <l- 6 2 ad. sk. Nepal {B. H. Hodyson). India Museum. 



'/(. " 5 ad. sk. Nepal {Hodgson). India Museum. (Type of 



Acrocephalus hodgsoni.) 

 I. cJ imm. .-^k. Bootan {Temherton). India Museum. 



