386 timeliid.t;. 



are white. Total leugtli 11-2 inches, cuhnca 1-2, wiug 4-15, tail 

 5, tarsus I'T. (Mus. li. G. WanUaw Ramsay.) 



Adult female, llesenibling the male in general coloration, but 

 slightly smaller, and differing only in the colour of the head, which 

 is dusky fulvous-hrown, a little deeper than the colour of the hack. 

 Total length 11 inches, culmen 1-1, wing 3-95, tail f), tarsus 1-7. 



Hah. Hills of Western Szechuen, Moupin, Western Kokouoor, 

 and extending to Southern Chensi and Tsiuliug. 



15. GAMPSORHYNCHUS. 



Type. 

 Gampsorhynchus, ^///M, /. A. S. BeiKj.xm. p. 370 (1844) G. torquatus. 



Bill of Gcnnpsorhi/ncJius rvfulus. 



Banfje. Eastern Himalayas, extending into the hills of Burmah 

 and Tenasserim. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Tail-feathers edged along the inner web and tipped 



with golden buff rufvhis, p. 386. 



h. Tail-feathers edged along the inner web and tipped 



with white torquatus, p. 387. 



1. Gampsorhynchus rufulus. 



GampsorhTnchus rufulus, Bhjth, J. A. S. Beng. xiii. p. 371 (1844), 



xiv. p. 596 (1845), xvi. p. 452 (1847), xviii. p. 813(1849); id. 



Cat. B. Mils. As. Soc. p. 150 (1850) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 358 (1850) ; 



Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 14 (1863) ; Hume, Sir. F. 1879, p. 95 ; Oates, 



B. Brit. Burm. p. 40 (1883). 

 Garrulax rufulus, Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 10 (1849) ; id. Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 282, no. 4176 (18(39). 

 Thamnocataphus senilis, Tickell MSS. 



Adult. General colour above golden brown, including the scapu- 

 lars ; lesser and median wing-coverts white, forming a shoulder- 

 patch ; bastard- wing and primary-coverts dusky, externally golden 

 brown, the greater series also of the latter colour ; quills dark 

 brown, externally golden brown, more hoary on the edge of the 

 primaries : upper tail-coverts like the back ; tail-feathers golden 

 brown, duskier on the inner web, edged along the latter and at the 

 tips with pale yellowish buff; entire head and hind neck pure 

 white ; throat and breast also pure white ; remainder of under 

 surface of body pale yellowish buff, whiter on the lower ab- 

 domen and lower flanks ; under tail-coverts also yellowish buff ; 



