33. coNosioiiA. 485 



33. CONOSTOMA. 



Type. 

 Conostoma, Hodys. J. A. S. Beng. x. p. 856 (1841) .... C. semodium. 



Range. Eastern Himalayas, 



1. Conostoma semodium. 



Conostoma femodius, Hodys. J. A. 8. Beng. x. p. 8.57, cum fig. (1841) ; 



id. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus., Passeres, pi. 26.3 (no. 661) ; BIyth, 



J. A. S. Benq. xiv. p. 578 (1845) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. .312 (1845) ; 



Blyih, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 101 (1849). 

 Conostoma aemodiimi, Hodgs. in. Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 84 (1844) ; 



Gray, Cat. Mamm. etc. Nepal pres. Hodgs. p. 102 (1846) ; Bp. 



Co?isp. i. p. .368 (1850) ; Gould, B. Asia, part 5 (1853) ; Horsf. ^ 



Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. pp. 213, 377 (1854) ; Jerd. B. Ind. 



ii. p. 10 (1803); Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. Ill, no. 7668 (1870); 



Hume, Nests |- Eggs Ind. B. p. 237 (1873) ; id. Str. F. 1879, 



p. 95 ; David Sf Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 207 (1878). 



Adult. General colour pale earth}- brown, rather more ashy on 

 the upper tail-coverts ; wing-coverts like the back, the bastard- 

 wing feathers pale ashy brown ; primary-coverts light ashy brown, 

 externally washed with the same colour as the back ; quills dusky 

 brown, externally ashy on the primaries, which are more or less 

 hoary towards the ends of the outer webs ; secondaries externally 

 rufescent brown ; tail-feathers ashy, washed with light rufous- 

 brown along the centre of the feathers ; crown of the head like the 

 back, the forehead creamy white, as also the nasal plumes, the 

 latter blackish brown at their bases like the lores and feathers 

 below the eye ; sides of face and ear-coverts dull earthy brown, as 

 also the throat ; the chin dusky ; remainder of under surface of 

 body light ashy from the fore neck downwards, the flanks slightly 

 washed with olive-brown ; axillaries and under wing-coverts like 

 the breast, the lower series of the latter creamy buff ; quills ashy 

 brown below, creamy buff along the inner web : " bill dull orange ; 

 legs slaty grey ; irides brown " (Jerdon). Total length 10"5 inches, 

 culmen 1, wing 4-9, tail 4*9, tarsus I'o. 



Obs. Some specimens seem to be rather more reddish brown than 

 others on the head and upper siu'face ; this colour may be the 

 remains of immaturity. 



Young. Dull reddish brown, without any grey on the throat and 

 breast ; the pale frontal patch nearly obsolete. 



Hah. Eastern Himalayas, Nepal and Sikhim, extending to the 

 forests on the high mountains on the frontiers of China and Thibet, 

 Moupin. 



a. Ad. ; b. Juv. sk. Nepal. B. II. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



(T-^-pes of species?) 

 c, d, e. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



f. Ad. sk. Nepal {Hodgson). India Museum. 



g, h. Ad. sk. Nepal (Eccles). Clould Collection. 



i. Bones of trunk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



