318 TIMELIID.E. 



■with white tips ; crown of head black, the cbutre browner with black 

 tips to the feathers ; forehead entirely white ; nape and hind neck 

 black, -with very large ovate spots of white, those on the sides of the 

 neck white fringed with black ; lores, eyebrow, sides of face, ear- 

 coverts, fore neck, and chest black ; breast, abdomen, sides of body, 

 flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts white : lower chest-feathers and 

 sides of breast black fringed with white ; under wing-coverts black, 

 with a white patch formed of outer greater coverts ; axillaries black, 

 the inner ones white ; quills below dusky : inner edge of quills white 

 at base ; " bill black ; feet and claws fleshy white ; iris dark brown " 

 (SciiUj/). Total length 11 inches, culmen 0*9, wing 4-15, tail 5*8, 

 tarsus I'l. 



Young. Differs from the adult in being earthy brown, with white 

 shaft-lines to the mantle-feathers ; lesser wing-coverts centred with 

 ochraceous brown, white on inner greater coverts, tinged with ochra- 

 ceous ; sides of face, throat, and breast light earthy brown, mesially 

 streaked with whitish shaft-lines ; the lower breast also dull white 

 washed with earthy brown. 



Hah. Western Himalaya mountains, not extending eastwards be- 

 yond Nepal. 



a, b. Ad. ; c. Juv. Himalayas. Gould Collection, 



sk. 



d. Ad. sk. Cashmere. E. M. Laugworthv, Esq. 



[P.]. 



e, f,q, h,i,k. Ad. N.W. Himalayas. Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill 

 sk [P-]- 



I. Juv. sk. Mun-ee, Sept. 15, 1878. Colonel Way [P.]. 



»«, n. c? 2 ad. sk. MmTse. Major J. Biddulph [C.]. 



0. c? ad. sk. iSepal vaUev, Dec. 12, Dr. J. Scully [P.J. 



1877. ■ - 



p, q, r. Ad. ; s, t, u. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



Juv. sk. 



V. Juv. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



(Type oi E.fuUginosus.) 



w. Ad. sk. Nepal {Hodgson). India Museum. 



2. HYDROCICHLA. 



Rant/e. From Tenasserim down the Malaj-an peninsula to Java, 

 Sumatra, and Borneo. 



Kei/ to the Species. 



a. Throat black ; remainder of under surface pure 

 white, or with a few blackish bars on the 

 breast. 

 a'. Back black ; head and hind neck rufous, with 



white frontal baud rvJicapiUa J , p. 319. 



b'. Back grev ; head brown, with white ii'ontal 



band . ." vplatus, p. 320. 



h. Throat and breast black; back black ; forehead 



and verte.x white frontalis, p. 321. 



c. Throat black ; hack rufous like the hind neck. . ruficapilla 9 , p- 319. 



d. Throat white ; back rufous rufidvrBalis, p. 320. 



