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28. DRYONASTES. 

 Gari'ulax, pt., mict, recent, 



Uange. Himalayas, extending to the hills of Assam, Biirmah, 

 and Tenasserim, and thence through China to Formosa and Hainan. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Throat black or blackish brown. 



(('. Under tail-coverts bright rufous like lower 

 abdomen : sides of neck also bright rufous ', 

 ear-coverts black ; head dark slaty grey , . rujlcollis, p. 454. 

 // Under tail-coverts olive-brown like the 

 lower abdomen. 

 a". Ear-coverts white, as well as hinder cheeks, 

 forming a large patch ; head dark grey, 

 separated from black forehead by a nar- 

 row line of silvery white ; fore neck and 

 chest greyish. 

 a'". Hind neck olive-brown washed with 



grey chinensis, p. 455. 



b'". Hind neck bright rufous, forming a 



collar nuchalis, p. 456. 



h". Ear-coverts chestnut-brown, succeeded 

 by a patch of white on sides of neck; 

 head and nape olive-brown, succeeded by 



a grey mantle strepiians, p. 457. 



e". Ear-coverts black like cheeks and throat ; 

 head bluish grey, separated from forehead 

 by narrow whitish line ; breast rufescent 

 olive-brown like upper surface monachus, p. 457. 



b. Throat ashy grey like crown of head; ear- 



coverts black like the eyebrow and cheeks ; 

 abdomen fulvescent, deeper on rmder tail- 

 coverts ^je;'s/>ec«7/a<MS, p. 458. 



c . Throat brown, rufescent, or olive-brown. 



c'. Lores white, as also an eyebrow and fore 

 part of cheeks and feathers below the eye ; 



abdomen fulvescent , sannio, p. 459. 



(T . Lores rufous; cheeks rufescent; abdomen 

 slaty grey ; mandible yellow. 

 d" . Tips to outer tail-feathers fulvescent .... paecilorhipichus, p. 4G0. 



e" . Tips to outer tail-feathers white herthemyi, p. 461. 



d. Throat white like the breast and centre of ab- ) ccendatus, p. 461. 

 domen ; bill black ] subccsridatus, p. 462, 



1. Dryonastes ruficollis. 



lanthocincla ruficoUis, Jard. ^- Selby, III. Orn. 2nd ser. pi. 21 (18.38) ; 



Bp. Consp. i. p. .371 (1850). 

 lanthocincla lunaris, McClell. P. Z. S. 1839, p. 160. 

 Garndax ruficollis, Bb/th, >$,^A. S. Bmg. xii. p. 950 (1843), xiii. 



