366 TIIIELIID^. 



chin bright rufous ; lower throat white ; fore neck and chest ashy, 

 with triangular spots of black ; centre of breast and abdomen white ; 

 sides of body and flanks pale olivo-brown, sparsely spotted with 

 black ; thighs olive-brown, tinged with fulvous ; under tail-coverts 

 brio-ht rufous ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale olive-brown ; 

 quills dusky below, ashy along the margin of the inner web ; " bill 

 hornv yellow ; legs tleshy brown ; orbital skin blue " (Jerclon). Total 

 length"9 inches, culmen 0-95, wing 3-6, tail 3-9, tarsus 1-4. 



The specimens from the north-western Himalayas are very similar 

 to 1\ rujigulare, but are everywhere very much paler, and have the 

 ear-coverts light uniform rufous, fringed with black at the back ; 

 the rufous on the throat, under tail-coverts, and end of tail is also 

 lighter than in the more eastern birds. Total length 9-5 inches, 

 culmen 0-85, wing 3-55, tail 4, tarsus 1-4. 



Mr. Hume (Str. F. 1S78, vol. ii. p. 150) enters fully into the 

 question of the variation in plumage of the present bird. 



The sexes are alike in plumage. A pair measure : — 



Total 

 length. 



Culmen. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. 



a. J. Sikliim 9-0 I'O 3-6 4-15 1-5 



b. $ . Darjiling 8-5 095 3-6 4-25 1-3 



Hah. Himalaya mountains, from the north-west eastwards to 

 Bootan, and extending into the Khasia hills. 



a. Ad. sk. N.W. Himalayas India Museum. 



{Griffith). 



h. Ad. sk. Murree, Jan. 1873. Major C. H. T. Marshall [P.]. 



c. (S ad. sk. Murree. Major J. Biddulph [ C.]. 



d. Ad. sk. Mussoorie. Capt. Stackhouse Plnwill [P.]. 

 e,/,^. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. (^Types 



of Cinclosonia riifintentum.^ 

 h, i, k, I. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



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



n. Ad. sk. DarjiUng. Gould Collection. 



o. 5 ad. sk. DarjiUng. A. 0. Hume, Esq. 



p. S ad. sk. Sikhim, Dec. 1877. A. 0. Hume, Esq. 



q. Ad.sk. Bootan (Pemfterion). India Museum. 



r. Ad. sk. Himalayas. J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. (Type of 



species.) 



10. Trochalopterum cineraceum. 



Trochalopteron cineraceum, Godicin-Aust. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 46, 

 pi. xi. ; Gould, B. Asia, part xxvii. (1875). 



Adult male (Thobal valley, Munipur : type of species). General 

 colour above ashy olive, more fulvescent on the lower back and 

 rump, the upper tail-coverts more decidedly olive ; the hind neck 

 and mantle slightly marked with black tips to a few of the feathers ; 

 wing-coverts like the back, the greater series a little more ashy at 

 their tips ; bastard-wing feathers lavender-grey with broad black 



