460 TiMEinD^. 



buff, the outer ones mottled with blackish streaks ; axillaries like 

 the sides of the breast ; lower under wing-coverts ash}' brown like 

 the under surface of the quills, which are clearer ashy along the 

 edge of the inner web ; " bill horn-brown ; feet greyish; iris chest- 

 nut-red '' (David). Total length 8-2 inches, culmen 1, wing 4-05, 

 taU -i'Oo, tarsus 1"5. 



Hab. Southern China from Chensi to Yunnan, and the hills of 

 North-eastern Bengal. 



a. Ad. .sk. Foochow, .Jan. 1867. R. Swinhoe, Esq. [C.]. 



b. c? ad. .sk. Ichang, Hoo-pih. R. Swinhoe, Esq. [O.J. 



c. Ad. sk. Ichang gorge, Yangtze river. 0. Maries, Esq. [C.]. 



d. Ad. sk. Mungla, Sanda valley, 3000 Dr. J. Anderson [C.]. 



feet, July 1868. 



8. Dryonastes pcecilorhynchus. 



Garrulax poecilorliyncha, Gould, P. Z. S. 1862, p. 281 ; id. B. Asia, 



part xvi. (1864). 

 Garrulax pfficUorliyncbus, Siuinh. Ibis, 1863, p. 283 ; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. i. p. 282, no. 4174 (1869). _ 

 lanthocincla poecilorhyncha, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 372 ; David 



^ Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 198 (1877). 



Adult. General colour above rufous olive-brown, with a slight 

 wash of olive ; wing-coverts rather more nifous than the back ; pri- 

 mary-coverts washed with olive externally ; quills dark sepia-brown, 

 the outer primaries externally ashy ; the secondaries rufous on the 

 outer webs, the innermost entirely rufous ; upper tail-coverts like 

 the back, but inclining to rufous at their ends ; centre tail-feathers 

 chestnut-brown, the remainder dark sepia-brown on the inner web, 

 chestnut on the outer, the two outermost tipped with white, the 

 third with pale rufous ; crown of head and nape brighter chestnut- 

 brown than the back, the feathers narrowly edged with black ; nasal 

 plumes and lores deep chestnut ; cheeks, ear-coverts, throat, and 

 chest rufous olive-brown, with a spot of black on the chin ; breast 

 and remainder of uuderparts slaty grey, the flanks and outer aspect 

 of thighs washed with rufous-brown ; vent and under tail-coverts 

 white, the latter washed with pale fulvous ; under wing-coverts rufous 

 olive-brown, the axillaries ashy, tipped with olivaceous ; the lower 

 series of coverts dusky brown, like the inner lining of the quills, which 

 are paler brown along the mai'gin of the inner web ; " bill black with 

 the tips yellow ; feet greenish grey ; iris blackish " (David). Total 

 length 10'5 inches, culmen 1-1, wing 4-35, tail 4-95, tarsus 1"65. 



Hah. Formosa, where it inhabits the wooded mouutains, never 

 descending to the lower unsheltered hills. 



a. Ad. sk. Formosa. R. Swinhoe, Esq. [C.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Formosa (P. Swinhoe). F. D. Godmau and 0. Sal- 



vin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



