316 TIMELnDiE. 



tippeo with white ; crown of head like the back, with a frontal 

 band of white extending to the fore part of the eye, separated from 

 the crown by a narrow line of blackish ; npper edge of ej'elids also 

 white ; lores and base of forehead, cheeks, throat, and eai-coverts 

 black, the npper part of the latter slaty blue, as also sides of neck ; 

 throat black, widening onto the sides of the latter ; centre of lower 

 throat, fore neck, breast and abdomen, thighs, and under tail-coverts 

 pure white ; under wing-coverts black, except the lower series, which 

 are white ; axillaries white with blackish bases ; quills below dusky, 

 tipped white, and having a large white patch at base of inner web ; 

 " bill black ; feet fleshy white ; the tarsi livid in front ; claws 

 whitish; iris blackish brown'' (Scidhj). Total length \)'\i inches, 

 culmen 0'8, wing 3'8, tail 5'1, tarsus 1-05. 



The young differs from the adult principally in the browner 

 colour of the upper parts, in having a white throat, and the feathers 

 of the fore neck and breast edged with dusky. 



Hob. Himalayas, extending into Burmah. 



a, b, c. Ad. sk. Himalayas. Gould Collection. 



d, e, f. Ad. ; g. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



Juv. sk. 



h. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Plodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



(Type of species.) 



i. Ad.; A". Juv.sk. Nepal {B. H. Hodgson). India Museum. 



I. Imm. sk. Darjiling. Gould Collection. 



VI. Ad. sk. Sikiiim, September 1873 Eugene W. Gates, Esq. 



{Mandelli). 



w. Ad. sk. 'Rootan {Pemherton). India Museum. 



o. 5 ad. sk. Thoungyah, British Bur- A. 0. Hume, Esq. 



mah Nov. 13, 1878 (/. 



Darling). 



5. Henicurus guttatus. 



Euicurus maculatus, pt. (non Vig.), Gray, Cat. Mamm. etc. Nepal 



pres. Hodqs. p. 76 (1846) ; Blyth,J. A. S. Beng. xvi. p. 156 (1847) ; 



Horsf. ^- 'Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 346 (1854) ; Jerd. B. 



Ind. "ii. p. 212 (1863) ; Beavan, Ibis, 1868, p. 75. 

 Euicurus guttatus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 664 ; id. B. Asia, part 



xviii. (1866) ; Graij, Hand-l. B. i. p. 248, no. 3599 (1869) ; Hume, 



Nests 4r Eggs Ind. B. p. 376 (1873) ; id. ^ Gates, Str. F. 1875, 



p. 342. 

 Enicurus maculatus (^tion Vig.), Godwin-Austen, J. A. S. Beng. xxxix. 



p. 109 (1870). 

 Henicurus guttatus, Blyth,Ibis, 1867, p. 29 ; Eiwes, Ibis, 1872, p. 261 ; 



Blgth (^ Wald. B.' Burm. p. 97 (1875); Hume, Str. F. 1878, 



vol. ii. p. 399; id. Str. F. 1879, p. 103; Scully, t. c. p. 311 ; Gates, 



B. Brit. Burnt, p. 26 (1883). 



Adult. General colour above black, spotted with white, the spots 

 being small, ovate or oval in shape, rather larger and in the form of 

 oval drops on the sides of the neck ; lesser median-coverts and greater 

 wing-coverts black, the greater series tipped with white ; bastard 

 wing, primary-coverts, and quills black ; the inner primaries white 

 at base, concealed by the coverts ; the inner secondaries with broad 



