380 TIMELIID^. 



claries deep chestnut, the innermost edged with olive-brown and 

 having distinct shaft-lines of whitish like the back ; quills dark 

 olive-brown near the base, inclining to dull ashy brown towards 

 their ends, all crossed with dusky cross bars ; head and hind neck 

 dark chestnut, with distinct white shaft-streaks, the feathers on the 

 neck tipped with dusky margins ; lores orange-chestnut, extending 

 below the eye ; from the base of the bill a broad white eyebrow of 

 lanceolate feathers ; eyelid also white ; ear-coverts chestnut with 

 fulvous centres, pi'oducing a broadly streaked appearance ; cheeks 

 and feathers below the eye fulvous white, somewhat mottled with 

 dusky or chestnut margins to the feathers ; throat deep chestnut, 

 separated from the cheeks by a black moustachial line ; lower throat 

 and fore neck chestnut, with distinct shaft-streaks of yellowish 

 white ; remainder of under surface of body and thighs yellowish 

 buff, with white shaft-lines ; sides of the body and flanks olive, with 

 whitish shaft-liues ; under tail-coverts deeper orange-buff ; axil- 

 laries pale orange-buff, the under wing-coverts duller fulvous, the 

 outer ones washed with olive ; quills dusky brown, edged with paler 

 brown along the inner web ; " legs and feet dull grey ; iris dull red- 

 dish brown " (A. W. Chennell). Total length 9 inches, culmen 0-75, 

 wing 3"75, tail -4"75, tarsus 1*3. (Miis. H. H. Godwin-Austen.) 

 Hah. Naga hills and Mimipur. 



13. ACANTHOPTILA. 



Type. 



Acanthoptila, Bli/th, J. A. S. Beny. xxiv. p. 478 (1855) , , A. nipalensis. 



Head of Acanthoptila nipalensis. 

 Range. Nepal. 



1. Acanthoptila nipalensis. 



Timalia nipalensis, Hodgs. As. Research, xix. p. 182 (1836). 

 Timalia pellotis, Hodgs. As. Research, xix. p. 182 (1836) ; id. Icon, 



ined. in Brit. Mus., Passeres, pis. 172 a, 172 b (no. 316) ; Gray, 



Cat. Manitn. etc. Nepal pres. Hodgs. p. 85 (1846). 

 Timalia leucotis, Hodgs. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus. pis. 172 a, 172 b 



(no. 315) ; id. in Grag's Zool. Misc. p. 83 (1844) ; Grag. Cat. Mamm. 



etc. Nepal iwes. Hodgs. p. 85 (1846). 

 Malacocercus nipalensis, Bli/th, J. A. S. Benq. xiii. p. 370 (1844) ; id. 



Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 140 (1849) ; Bji. Consp. i. p. 373 (1850) ; 



Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 222 (1854) ; Grug, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 280, no. 4123 (1869). 



