28. DETONASTES. 461 



9. Dryonastes berthemyi. 



lanthocincla berthemyi, Dav. Sf Oust. Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, ser. 

 6, vol. xii. p. 91 (1876) ; iid. Ois. Chine, p. 199, pi. 60 (1877). 



Adult. Plumage in general similar to that of lantliocincla poecilo- 

 rhynclta, but having the shades of colour clearer and somewhat dif- 

 fereutl}- distributed. Head, neck, chin, and upper part of breast of 

 not so dark a shade as, but much more of a golden brown than in 

 the Formosan bird ; grey tint of the abdomen commencing much 

 higher and being purer in tint, with a slight shade of greenish ; 

 tail-feathers, excepting the four middle ones, ornamented with a 

 distinct spot at the tip, white, and not fulvous as in /. pcecilo- 

 rJiyncha, and tinged with grey on the outer web ; lower part of 

 forehead and the region between the eye and the base of the bill 

 deep black, and not purplish black, this black mark forming a sort 

 of mask, and being prolonged a little below and behind the eye ; 

 biU black, with a spot of yellow at the tip : feet green ; iris 

 blackish. Total length 10-5 inches, culmen 0-9, wing 4-55, tail 4*75, 

 tarsus 1-7. (David cf- Oustalet.) 



Hah. "Wooded mountains of Fokien, China. 



10. Dryonastes caerulatus. 



Cinclosoma casrulatum, Hodgs. Asiat. Research, xix. p. 147 (1836) ; 

 ill. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mits., Passeres, pi. 167 (uos. 493^94). 



Crateropus cieruleatus, Blyth, J. A. S. Bmg. xi. p. 179 (1842) ; 

 Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 83 (1844). 



GaiTulax caerulatus, Bli/fh, J. A. S. Beng. xii. p. 951 (1843), xiv. 

 p. 599 (1845) ; Gray^ Gen. B. i. p. 225 (1846) ; id. Cat. Mamm. 

 etc. Nepal pres. Hodgs. p. 82 (1846) ; Bhjth, Cat. B. Mits. As. Soc. 

 p. 96 (1849) ; Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 205 

 (1854) ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 36 (186.3) ; Gray. Hand-l. B. i. p. 282, 

 no. 4171 (1869) ; Jerd. Ibis, 1872, p. .302 ; Hume, Xests ^- Eggs 

 Ind. B. p. 254 (1873j ; Godivin- Austen, J. A. S. Beng. xliii. 

 p. 160 (1874) ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 96. 



lanthocincla Ccerulatiun, Bp. Consp. i. p. 377 (1850). 



Adult. General colour above rufous-brown, the lesser and median 

 wing-coverts like the back ; the greater coverts brighter rufous : 

 quills dusky brown, externally brighter rufous, the innermost 

 secondaries entirely of this colour, the primaries externally fulvous- 

 brown ; rump a little more olivaceous than the back, washed with 

 grey ; upper tail- coverts reddish brown ; tail-feathers chestnut, the 

 inner webs somewhat browner ; head like the back, but varied with 

 blackish margins to the feathers ; base of forehead, lores, and 

 feathers round the eye black, as are also the nasal plumes, the 

 feathers at the base of the lower mandible, and a streak below the 

 eye along the upper edge of the ear-coverts ; ear-coverts greyish, 

 tipped with reddish brown, forming a patch ; checks reddish brown, 

 the feathers narrowly edged with black ; throat and under surface 

 of body white, with the base of the chin and the edge of the throat 



