12. lEOCHALOPTEETJM. 371 



15. Trochalopterum phceniceum. 



laiithocincla phcenicea, Gouhl, Icunes Avium, pi. 3. 

 Crateropus puniceus, BIytJi, J, A. IS. Beng. xi. p. 180 (1842). 

 GaiTulax phcvniceus, Blyth, J. A. 8. Beng. xii. p. 9ol (1843), xiv. 



p. 599 (1845) ; id. Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 97 (1849). 

 Trochalopteron phoeniceum, Gray, Cat. Mamm. etc. Nepal pres. 

 Hodgs. p. 83 (1846) ; id. Gen. B. i. p. 226 (1846) ; Bp. Consp. i. 

 p. 372 (1850) ; Horsf. S; Moore, Cat. B. E.l. Co. Mus. i. p. 210 

 (1854) ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 48 (1863) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 282, 

 no. 4178 (1869) ; Hume, Nests ^- Eggs Ind. B. p. 262 (1873) : id. 

 Str.F.l%7Q,^.Q7. 

 Adult. General colour above dark fulvous-brown, inclining to 

 dark rufous-brown on the upper tail-coverts, as also the wing- 

 coverts, most of which are tinted on the outer web with crimson ; 

 bastard-wang feathers dusky fulvous-brown washed with crimson 

 externally ; primary-coverts black ; quiUs black, externally edged 

 with crimson, inclining to reddish buff towards the tips ; the outer 

 secondaries margined with grey in the middle and with crimson 

 towards the tip, which is narrowly edged with reddish buff; inner 

 secondaries black, externally fulvous-brown near the base, with a 

 large patch of crimson near the end of the outer web, this being 

 separated by a line of black from the fulvous-brown of the outer 

 web, the tips rather more broadly edged with reddish buff: the inner- 

 most secondaries like the back ; tail-feathers black tipped with 

 reddish, increasing in extent towards the outermost ; head a little 

 more olive-brown than the back, the forehead washed with crimson 

 at base ; lores, cheeks, ear-coverts, and sides of face crimson, as well 

 as a narrow line above the eye, separated from the crown by a 

 broader streak of black : entire under surface of body dark earthy 

 brown, washed with crimson on the chin ; centre of breast dull 

 ashy ; long upper taO-coverts bright crimson with black bases ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries like the breast, the edge of the 

 wing crimson ; quills dusky brown below, reddish along the outer 

 web, more ashy brown along the inner one ; " bill black ; legs 

 livid brown ; iris red-brown " (Jerdon). Total length 8"5 inches, 

 culmen 0'85, wing 3*5, tail 4-25, tarsus I'o. 



Younr/ birds differ from the adult in being duller brown, and in 

 having the crimson on the wings much less vivid, and especially on 

 the sides of the face, whcie the red is not nearly so extended as in 

 the old birds. 



Hab. Eastern Himalayas. 



a. Ad. St. Nepal. R. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



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



c. d. Ad. sk. Nepal {Hodgson). India Museimi. 



e. Ad. sk. Darjiling {Eccles). F. D. Godman and Sal- 



vin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



/. Imm. sk. Darjiling. Capt. E. G. Wardlaw 



Ramsay. 



g. c? ad. sk. Darjiling. A. O. Hume, Esq. 



A, /. Ad. sk. Sikliim. HenrvSeebohm.Esq. [P.]. 



k. Ad. sk. Sikhim. Major J. Biddulph [C.]. 



1. Ad. ; m. Juv. sk. Ilimalavas. Gould Collection. 



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