1. HENictTKra. 315 



and foi-ming a spot behind the latter ; a line across the base of the 

 forehead, lores, eyelid, ear-coverts, cheeks, sides of neck, and throat 

 black ; the hinder edge of eyelid white ; fore neck and remainder 

 of under surface pure white, the feathers on the sides of the upper 

 breast edged with black ; under wing-coverts black, the lower series 

 white ; axillaries white, the outer ones black, edged with white ; 

 quills below ashy blackish ; •' bill and inside of mouth black : feet 

 and claws pale j^ellow ; irides brown; eyelids well-feathered" 

 (E. W. Oatcs). Total length 10 inches, cuLmen 0-8, wing 3-95, 

 tail 5-1, tarsus 1-1. 



The female is like the male but smaller. Total length 9 inches, 

 culmen 0-8, wing 3-5, tail 4-6, tarsus 1. 



Hab. Himalayas, extending into the Burmese countries. 



a, b, c. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



^- Ad. sk. Kha-^ia liills* India Museum. 



{Grrffif/i). 



€. Ad. sk. Ai-racau hills. \V. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 



f,ff. c? 2 ad. sk. Pegu, April 1880. Eugene W. Gates, Esq. [C.]. 



4. Henicurus schistaceus. 



Enieurus schistaceus, Hodgs. Asiat. Researches, six. p. 189 (1836) ; 

 id. Icon. ined. in Brit. 3Itis., Passeres, pi. 11,5 b. tig. 2 (n. 349), lie! 

 fig. 1 (no. ;Un) : id. in Grat/'s Zool. Misc. p. 83 (1844) ; Gray', Cat. 

 Mamm. etc. Nepal pres. Hodgs. p. 76 (1846); id. Gen. B. i. p. 204 

 (1847) ; Bhjth, J. A. S. Beng. xvi. p. 157 (1847) ; id. Cat. B. Mus. 

 As. Soc. p. lo9 (1849); Bp. Consp. i. p. 251 (1850); Hursf. Sf 

 Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. .346 (1854); Swink Ibis, 1861, 

 p. 409; Jerd. B.Ind.ii. Tp. 214; Svmih. Ibis, lH67, pp. 29, 404; 

 C^rai/, Iland-l. B. i. p. 248, no. 3601 (1869) ; Hume, Nests &■ Eqqs 

 Ind. B. p. 376 (1873). ''•' 



Henicurus schistaceus, Swinh. P. Z. S'. 1863, p. 276; Blyt/i Ibis 

 1867, p. 29 ; Ehces, Ibis, 1872, p. 376 ; Bii/th .V TVald. B. Burm. 

 p. 97 (1875); Godwin-Aust. J. A. &'. Bern/, xlv. p. 80(1876), 

 xlvii. p. 19 (1878); David ^- Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 296 (1878); 

 Himie S,- Davison, Str. F. 1878, vol. i. pp. 361, 517; Hmne, Str. F. 

 1879, p. 103 ; ScuUtj, t. c. p. 311 ; Bi/ighatn, .^r. F. 1880, p. 189- 

 Oates, B. Brit. Burm. p. 28 (1883). ' 



Henicurus leucoschistus, Stcinh. Ann. & Man. Nat. Hist. (4) vi n 154 

 (1870) ; id. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 365. ' ^' 



Adult. General colour above dark slaty blue, the scapulars like 

 the back and broadly tipped with white ; lesser and median wing- 

 coverts like the back; the greater coverts and the bastard wing 

 blackish ; the innermost greater coverts very broadly tipped with 

 white ; primary-coverts and quills black, the primaries tipped with 

 white on the outer web, the secondaries on outer web alone ; all 

 but the outermost primary white at base, forming on primaries a 

 large alar speculum, and on secondaries a white base adjacent to 

 the inner white-tipped greater coverts ; rump and upper tail-coverts 

 pure white : tail-feathers black, white at base, and more minutely 



» Wrongly enttred as from .Afghanistan in Horsfield and Jfoore's Cat. /. c. 



