20. MALAC'IAS. 407 



grey, with black margins to both webs ; tail-feathors black, broadiv 

 tipped with ashy grey, increasing in extent towards the outermost, 

 two centre feathers ashy grey, with a broad subtermiual band of 

 black, the next feathers ashy grey at the base, this grey colour 

 gradually disappearing on the outside tail-feathers : crown of head 

 black, shading into blackish brown on the nape ; lores and sides of 

 face black, as also the fore part of the ear-coverts, which shade off 

 into brown on the hinder part, and resemble the sides of the neck, 

 which are sbghtly washed with slate-colour ; cheeks, throat, and 

 centre of belly whitish, the lower throat and breast washed with 

 yello^vish buff; the sides of the breast and flanks beautiful lilac-grey 

 with a vinous tinge ; thighs, vent, and under tail-coverts sandy buff; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries, as well as the edge of the wing, 

 white ; quills blackish below, white along the edge of the inner 

 web. Total length *J inches, culmeii U'Uo, wing 3-05, tail 4-25, 

 tarsus 1-15. 



Hab. Hills of Assam. 



a. Ad. sk. Assam {^McClelland). India Museum. (Type of 



species. ) 

 b,c,d. Ad.sk Assam {3IcClella)id). India Museum. 



e. Ad. sk. Shillong. Col. Godwin-Austen [P.]. 



f.ff. Ad. ; h. Juv. sk. Kliasia liills (Jerdon). Gould Collection. 



6. Ilalacias pulchella. 



Sibia pulchella, Godwin- Aust. Ann. if- Mag. Nat. Ilisl. (4j xiii. 



p. 160 ; id. J. A. S. Beny. xliii. pt. 2, p. I(i4 (1874). 

 Malacias pulchellus, Hume, Sir. F. 1879, p. 97. 



Adult. Above ashy grey, bluer on the head, the two centre tail- 

 feathers umber-brown, terminating (each colour | inch) in rich 

 black followed sharply by dark grey ; the outer tail-feathers are 

 tipped in like manner with grey, but the black increases on each 

 feather outwards, and on the last extends to its base ; shoulders of 

 wing blue-grey, with a bar of pale chocolate-brown coming in at 

 the base of the black primary- and secondary-coverts. Quills grey- 

 black, the primaries edged with pale hoary blue, the secondaries with 

 blue-grey : the last three are umber-brown, and the last two are edged 

 narrowly on the outer web with black. A narrow frontal band and 

 lores black, extending both over and below the eye to base of the 

 ear-coverts. Beneath ashy blue, with a vinous-brown tinge upon 

 the lower breast and abdomen. Bill black ; legs horny brown. 

 I.«ngth 9-5 inches, wing 4-1, tail 4-8o, tarsus 1-3, bill at front 0-75. 

 ( Godwin- A usten . ) 



Huh. Xaga hills, SoOit feet. 



