462 TIMEXIID^. 



black ; tlic sides of the body ashy grey slightly washed with brown ; 

 the thighs like the flanks ; under tail-coverts white ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries reddish brown, like the sides of the upper 

 breast, with ashy-grey bases ; quills pale brown below, clearer 

 along the margin of the inner webs ; " bill dusky, livid at base ; 

 legs fleshy white ; orbital skin livid ; iris red-brown " {Jerdon). 

 Total length 10 inches, culmen I'l, wing 4-1, tail 4-6, tarsus 1-65. 

 Hah. Eastern Himalayas, extending to Assam and the Naga hills. 



Gould Collection. 



B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



(Types of species.) 

 B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 

 India Museum. 

 Gould Collection. 

 Gould Collection. 

 India Museum. 

 Henry Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 



11. Dryonastes subcaenilatus. 



Garrulax subcserulatus, Hume, Sir. F. 1878, vol. ii. p. 140 ; id. Sir. 

 F. 1879, p. 90. 



Like G. ccendatus, but more olivaceous and less rufescent above, 

 and with the ear-coverts, feathers behind the eye, and posterior 

 portions of cheeks silvery white, more or less tipped with black, and 

 vsdth the three exterior tail-feathers on either side broadly tipped 

 white. {Hume, ?. c.) 



This markedly distinct but yet closely allied species replaces 

 G. cceridatus of Nepal, Sikhim, &c. on parts of the Khasia hills, 

 near Shillong. {Hume, I. c.) 



On the difference of the colour of the upper parts, marked as it 

 is, I lay uo stress, because Sikhim and Nepal birds of this class are 

 always deeper-coloured and more rufescent than specimens of the 

 same species fi-om the Khasias. But I have examined over thirty 

 specimens of G. cceridatus ; and not one exhibits a trace of the broad 

 and conspicuous white tippings to the three external lateral tail- 

 feathers characteristic of the present species, nor does one of them 

 show a trace of the largo pure white patch on either side of the 

 head that distinguishes G. sahccnrulatus. {Hume, I. c.) 



The following dimensions are taken from the skin : — Length 10 

 to 11 inches, wing 4-2-4-6, tail 5-5-8, tarsus 1-48-1-6, bill at 

 front from frontal bone 0*96-1 '03. {Hume, I. e.) 



Ohs. Colonel Godwin-Austen's specimens from the Naga hiUs are 

 true 6r. cceridatus. 



