364 TIMELIID^. 



chestnut-red, a little brighter on top of head, a little duller on the 

 throat ; upper breast similarly coloured but paler ; lower breast 

 and upper abdomen paler again and much yellower and rustier ; 

 most of tbe feathers on these parts with subterminal blackish spots, 

 beyond which the tips are fringed paler ; middle of lower abdomen 

 pale ferruginous, unspotted ; sides of body and abdomen, flanks, 

 vent, and lower tail-coverts a dull olivaceous earth-brown ; tibial 

 plumes much the same, but with just a faint touch of the colour of the 

 middle lower abdomen ; wing-lining grey, but some of the feathers 

 just tipped with reddish or orange-ferruginous ; interscapulary region 

 a pale greenish olive-grey, all the feathers with large blackish-brown 

 subtei'minal spots, succeeded by a paler fringe ; space between inter- 

 scapulary region and where the uniform red of the nape ends simi- 

 lar and similarly spotted to the former, but more or less overlaid 

 with the bright red of the crown, and with a yellower tinge of this ; 

 lower back, rump, upper tail-coverts, tertiaries, and tail, where not 

 tinged with golden, the same pale greenish olive-grey as the ground of 

 the intersca2)ulary region ; all the tail-feathers tinged and margined 

 on their outer webs, most strongly towards their bases, with a some- 

 what olivaceous golden ; outer webs of primaries and secondaries 

 a bi'ighter shade of this same golden ; secondary and tertiary greater 

 coverts rich maroon-chestnut, their median and lesser ones a paler 

 tint of this mingled with j-ellow ; legs and feet fleshy brown, pinker 

 on feet ; bill blackish brown ; irides grey. Length 10'3 inches, bill 

 from gape 1'07, wing 3'7, tail 4"5, tarsus 1-5. {^Uume, t.c.) 

 Hab. Eastern hills of Munipur. 



8. Trochalopteron melanostigma. 



Trochalopteron me\&ao&ii'£ma,,Bhjth,J.A. S.Beng. xxiv. p. 268 (1855) ; 



Bhjfh ^- WaUtn,B. Biirm. p. 108, no. 31(3 (1875); Wardlaio 



Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 464 ; Hume 4" Davison, Str. F. 1878, vol. i. 



p. 291 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 97 ; Gould, B. Asia, part xxxiii, 



(1882) ; Oates, B. Brit. Burm. p. .39 (1883). 

 Pterocyclus melanostigmus, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 283, no. 4192 



(1869). 



Adult female. General colour above greenish brown, slightly 

 more olive on the hind neck and mantle ; wing-coverts like the 

 back except the greater series, which are externally bright chest- 

 nut ; bastard-wing feathers blackish, externally olive slightly 

 washed with chestnut ; primary-coverts black ; quills dusky, ex- 

 temallj' olive-greenish, rather yellower on the outer webs of the 

 primaries ; tail-feathers dusky, olive-greenish on the outer webs ; 

 crown of head and nape bright chestnut ; base of forehead, lores, 

 feathers in front of eye, fore part of cheeks, and chin black ; hinder 

 part of eyelid white ; feathers along the sides of hinder crown and 

 the sides of the nape light bluish grey, extending down behind 

 the ear-coverts, the latter silvery grey with rufous-brown shaft- 

 streaks ; hinder part of cheeks and throat chestnut ; remainder of 

 under surface light reddish brown or dull tawny ; sides of breast, 



