358 TIMELIIDJE. 



Young. Differs from the adult in being more rufous above and 

 more uniform, the bead more duskj' than the back ; wings and tail 

 as iu adult ; underneath, the colour is more unit'oim, ^vithout ashy 

 edgings to the feathers of the breast ; cheek-patch visible, but not 

 so pronounced as in the adult. 



Hah. Eastern Himalayas. 



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



(Tvpes of species.) 

 d, e. Ad. ; /, g. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [r.]. 



Juv. sk. 

 k, i. Ad. sk. Nepal {Hodgson). India Museum. 



k, I. Ad. sk. DarjiUng {Eccles). F. D. Godman and O. Sal- 



vin, Esqrs. [P.]. 

 m. Ad. sk. Sikhim (Mandelli). H. Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 



«. Ad. sk. Sikhim. Major J. Biddulph. 



0, /). J ? ad. sk. Native Sikhim (Man- A. 0. Hume, Esq. 



delli). 

 q, r. Ad. sk. Bootan (Pe}nberton) . India Museum. 



2. Trochalopterum blythi. 



Trochalopteron blythii, J. Verr. Nutiv. Arch, du Mus. iv., Bidl. p. 37 

 (1S70) ; id. op.' cit.\\\., Bull, p. 4o (1871); Gonld, B, Asia, T^ait 

 xxvi. (1874); Harid l^- Oust Ois. Chine, p. 201 (1877). 



Adult male. General colour above ashy olive-brown ; feathers of 

 the back mottled by the half- concealed rufesceut bases of the 

 feathers ; wing-coverts a little more rufescent than the back, 

 especially the greater series ; bastard-wing feathers blue-grey, 

 shaded with golden olive near the base ; primarj'-coverts black ; 

 quills dull blackish, externally golden olive ; the primaries edged 

 with bluish grey, the secondaries all bluish grey towards the tips ; 

 upper tail-coverts chestnut ; tail-feathers golden olive externally, 

 bluish grey on the inner web and the tips ; hind neck rufous- 

 brown ; crown of head and nape deep chocolate- brown ; lores, as 

 well as a broad eyebrow, and feathers round the eye and fore part 

 01 the ear-coverts blackish ; the hinder part of the latter rufous- 

 brown ; on the cheeks a broad patch of white ; the chin and upper 

 throat blackish ; remainder of under surface of body light rulous, 

 deepening into chestnut on the thighs and under tail-coverts ; the 

 fore neck and breast slightlj' moitled with ashy margins to the 

 feathers ; axillaries and under wing-coverts also liglit ashy, the 

 lower series ashy brown like the quills below ; " bill black ; feet 

 clear rufous ; iris chestnut-brown " {A. David). Total length 11 

 inches, culmen 0-9, wing 4-25, tail 5-1, tarsus 1-6. 



The sexes are alike in plumage, according to Pere David. 



Hah. High forests of ^Yestern Szechuen, at Moupin and in 

 Eastern Kokonoor. 



a. cJ ad. sk. Western Szechuen, Feb. 16, 1870. Abbe David [C.]. 



