322 TnTELIID^. 



3. MICROCICHLA. 



Range. From Samarcand, throughout the Himalayas, to the hills 

 of Assam, and extending into Western China, 



1. MicrocicMa scouleri. 



Enicurus scouleri, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1830-31, p. 174 ; Gould, Cent. B. 



Himal. Mts. pi. xxviii. (1832) ; Jameson, Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. 



vii. p. 363 ; Hodgs. Icon. hied, in Brit. Mus., Passeres, pi. 117. 



figs. 1, 2 (no. 698); id. in Graifs Zool. Misc. p. 83 (1844); 



G7-at/, Cat. Mamm. etc. Nepal pres. Hodgs. p. 76 (1846) ; id. Gen. 



B. i. p. 204 (1847) ; Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xvi. p. 157 (1847) ; id. 



Cat. B. Mus. As. Sac. p. 159 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 251 (1850) ; 



Horsf. Sj- 3Ioore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 347 (1854) ; Adams, 



P. Z. S. 1858, p. 489, 1859, p. 179 ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 214 (1863) ; 



Goidd, B. Asia, pt. xviii. (1866) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 248, 



no. 3603 (1869) ; Hume, Nests and Eggs Ind. B. p. 377 (1873). 

 Enicurus heterurus, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 83 (1844). 

 Enicurus nio-rifrons. Gray, P: Z. S. 1859, p. 102 {ex Hodgs. MSS.) ; 



Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 214 (1863) ; Blyth, Ibis, 1869, p. 29 ; Godioin- 



Aifsten, J. A. 8. Beng. xxxis. p. 107 (1870). 

 Henicurus scouleri, Beavan, Ibis, 1868, p. 75 ; Stoliczka, J. A. S. Betig. 



xxxvii. p. 47 (1868) ; Sioinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 365 ; Ehces, Ibis, 1872, 



p. 256 ; Godivin-Austen, J. A. S. Bern/, xlv. p. 80 (1876), xlvii. 



p. 19 (1878) ; David et Oustalet, Ois. Chine, p. 297 (1878) ; Hume, 



Sir. F. 1879, vol. ii. p. 457 ; id. Str. F. 1879, p. 103 ; Scully, t. c. 



p. 311 ; Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 67 ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1882, p. 423. 



Adult. General colour above deep purplish black ; lesser and 

 median wing-coverts like back ; greater coverts broadly tipped with 

 white, forming a wing-bar ; bastard wing, primary-coverts, and 

 quills black ; primaries conspicuously white-shafted, secondaries 

 edged with white near the ends, their bases white, concealed by 

 white ends of greater coverts ; innermost secondaries jiure white ; 

 lower back white, followed by a black bar across rump, which is 

 otherwise white like u])per tail-coverts ; tail-feathers black, with 

 broad white bases, outer feather entirely white, next two feathers 

 white with an oblique black mark at tip ; forehead pure white ; 

 hinder crown, occiput, and nape like the back : lores and feathers 

 above eye, sides of face, ear-coverts, cheeks, sides of neck, throat, and 

 fore neck purplish black ; remainder of under surface white, with 

 the sides of the breast purplish black ; flanks slightly mottled 

 with dusky blackish tips to som« of the feathers ; under wing-coverts 

 black, except the outer lower series, which malce a M'hite patch ; 

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

 with a white patch at base of inner edge of secondaries; "bill 

 black ; feet and claws pure fleshy white ; iris dark brown " 

 (Scully). Total length 6 inches, culmen 0*55, wing 3"1, tail 2*2, 

 tarsus 0'95. 



Young. Differs from the adult in having the forehead black and 



