384 TIMELIIDJJ. 



and subtermiually shaded with black, the remainder ashy grey at 

 the base, blackish at the end before the white tip, the black in- 

 creasing in extent towards the outermost feathers ; crown of Jiead 

 and nape black, with obsolete ashy tips to the feathers ; lores ashy 

 grey ; over the eye an indistinct streak of fulvous-brown mixed with 

 ashy grey ; nasal plumes black ; cheek, sides of face, ear-coverts, 

 and throat chestnut-brown, the feathers of the latter mesially 

 streaked with black, those on the lower throat tipped with creamy 

 buff, before which is a subtermiual bar of black ; remainder of under 

 surface tawny buff, deeper on the flanks, thighs, and nnder tail- 

 coverts ; the chest with more or less concealed bars of black ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries blackish, tipped with a spot of white 

 or fulvous ; quills blackish below, with large white tips to the 

 primaries ; " bill horny brown, with the lower mandible clearer ; 

 feet whitish ; iris clear yellow '' (David). Total length 14-5 inches, 

 culmen 1'3, wing 5'7, tail 7'4, tarsus 1'8. (Miis. li. G. WarcUaw 

 liamsay.) 



Hah. Highland forests of Moupin and Yaotchy, where it is resi- 

 dent between 9000 and 10,000 feet above the sea-level. 



3. lanthocincla artemisiae. 



Oinclosoma artemisife, David, Ann. 8f Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) vii. p. 256 



(1871) ; Swinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 372. 

 Yanthocincla arthemisiae, David, Nouv. Arch. Mus. vii. Bull. pp. 6, 



14 (1871). 

 lanthocincla artemisise, Gould, B. Asia, part xxv. (1873). 

 Cinclosoma arthemisife, David Sf Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 197, pi. 54 



(1877). 



Adult male (Western Szechuen, Feb. 16, 1870 : A. David). 

 General colour above chestnut-rufous, a little brighter on the upper 

 tail-coverts, the back mottled all over with terminal spots of light 

 ochreous buff, before each of which is a broad subterminal bar of 

 black ; the upper tail-coverts tipped with white, with a narrower 

 subterminal black bar ; wing-coverts chestnut, tipped with white 

 and subterminally barred with black ; feathers of bastard wing and 

 primary-coverts black, tipped with white ; quills black, externally 

 chestnut and tipped with white, the primaries for the most part 

 lavender-grey on the outer web, excepting the first two, which are 

 entirely black with a white tip, the innermost secondaries with a 

 well-marked subterminal bar of black before the white tip ; centre 

 tail-feathers chestnut, tipped with white, the remainder duU brown 

 with a broad white ending, before which is a distinct subterminal 

 band or shading of black, the outer feathers chestnut near the base 

 of the outer web, and shaded with lavender-grey a little higher up 

 the feather ; head slightly crested and jet-black ; hind neck ochra- 

 ceous brown, with paler ochreous tips to the feathers, before which 

 is a bar of black ; lores, feathers below the eye, base of cheeks, and 

 chin rufesceut bufl' ; a ring of feathers round the eye, ear-coverts, 

 hinder cheeks, and throat black, descending to the fore neck ; above 

 the ear-coverts an iU-defined streak of ashy, and behind the ear- 



