14. lANTHOCINCLA. 383 



is a broad subtermiiial band of black, this band, as well as the 

 white tip, gradually increasing in size towards the outer feathers, 

 which are also more or less ashy grey in the middle and up the 

 inner web ; head and nape black ; lores, eyebrow, feathers round 

 the eye, and base of cheeks tawny buff; car-coverts chestnut ; cheeks 

 black, the hinder part chestnut with narrow black bars ; throat 

 black, tawny near the base of the chin ; lower throat, fore neck, and 

 chest ashy fulvous, with subterminal cross bars of black before a 

 very pale fulvous tip ; remainder of under surface ochraceous bufl', 

 deeper and more tawny on the flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts ; 

 vinder wng-coverts and axillaries dusky blackish, tipped with ful- 

 vous ; quills dusky blackish below, with the margin of the inner 

 web ashy, the primaries conspicuously white at the tip ; " Inll 

 yeUowish, dusky on the ridge and tip ; legs dull yellow ; iris 

 yellow-brown" (Jerdon). Total length 12"5 inches, culmen l"2o, 

 wing 5-25, tail G"2(J, tarsus 1"85. 



Young. Ecproduces the colours of the adult bird, but is more 

 fluffy in plumage and much duller everywhere ; the bars and tips 

 to the feathers of the hind neck not nearly so pronounced ; crown 

 dusky black ; ear-coverts and sides of face chestnut ; throat tawny 

 buff", only the lower throat blackish. 



Hub. Eastern Himalayas. 



(I. Ad. sk. Himalayas. Gould CoUectiou. 



b. Ad. sk. Davjiling. Gould Collection. 



c. Ad. sk. Darjiling {Pearson), India Museum. 



(/, e. Ad. sk. Sikhim (Mandelli). H. Seebohm, Esq. [P.l. 



f, ff, h. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



'i. Juv.; k. Ad.sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



/. Ad. sk. Nepal {Hodysmi). India Musemn. 



m. Ad. st. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



2. lanthocincla maxima. 



Pteroi'binus luaximus, /. Verr. N. Arch. Mus. vi. Bull. p. 36 (1870). 

 lanthocincla maxima, J. Verr. N. Arch. Mus. vi. Bull. pi. 3. fig. 1 



(1870) ; id. op. cit. vii. Bull. p. 38 (1871). 

 Ciuclosoma maximum, David 4" Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 196, pi. 55 



(1874). 



Adult male. General colour above fulvous-brown, the feathers 

 rufesccnt towards their tips, which are ornamented with rounded 

 spots of white, with a broad subterminal mark of black ; the hind 

 neck and mantle more ashy, the terminal spots and bars smaller 

 and less pronounced ; the rump and upper tail-coverts chestnut- 

 brown, with the same sul)terminal spots and bars as the back ; wing- 

 coverts rufous-brown spotted with white, and subterminally barred 

 with black at the tips ; bastard-wing feathers and primary wing- 

 coverts black, with a large white spot at the tip ; quills blackish, 

 tip]>ed with white, the primaries very broadly so, the latter exter- 

 nally washed with ash)- grey ; the secondaries extern;illy rufous- 

 brown, ashy grey towards their ends ; the two centre tail-feathers 

 brown, washed with ashy grey on their margins, tipped with white 



