35. CHLEUASICUS. ,^ 



Type. 



Chleuasicus, Blyth, J. A. S. Benrj. xiv. p. 578 (1845) 0. ruticeps, 



Bawje. Eastern Himalayas, extending into tlie hill-rauges of 

 North-eastern Bengal and Southern China. 



Key to tlie Species. 



a. Size larger : wing 2'95 inches ; outer aspect of 



quills and tail plain, the wing not appearing 

 particoloui-ed ; head hright rufous, contrasting 

 with the oUvaceous-hro^^ni back riijiceps, p. 494. 



b. Size smaller : wing 2-25 inches ; outer aspect of 



quills and tail bright orauge-buil, tlie wing ap- 

 pearing particoloured ; crown of head a little 

 more fulvescent than the back. 



«'. A superciliary streak of ashy ohve fulvifrons, p. 494. 



b'. A superciliary streak of bluish grey cyanophrys, p. 495. 



1. Chleuasicus ruflceps. 



Chleuasicus ruficeps, Blyth, J. A. S. Beny. xiv. p. 578 (1845) ; Jerd. 



B. Ind. ii. p. 7 (1863) ; Anderson, Zool. Exped. Ytmnan, Aves, 



p. G38, pi. xlvii. tig. 2 (1878) ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 95. 

 Suthora ruficeps, Bbith, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 102 (1849) ; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 334 (1850) ; Horsf. S,- Moore, Cat. B. B.I. Co. Mus. 



i. p. 380, note (1854) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 235, no. 235 (1869). 

 Paradoxornis sphenura, Hodys. MSS., teste Jerdon, Ibis, 1872, 



p. 297. 

 Chleuasicus ruficeps, var. atrosuperciliaris, Godwin-Austen, Proc. A. 



S. Beny. 1877, p. 147 ; Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 499. 



General colour of iipper surface sandy brown slightly washed 

 with olive ; the wings much more rufous than the back ; the quills 

 dull brown broadly washed with rufous ; the tail dull brown, with 

 indistinct cross barrings under certain lights ; head (very much 

 crested) and hind neck bright sandy rufous, the sides of the face 

 rather paler rufous, the cheeks inclining to sandy buif ; round the 

 eve a little ring of bufiy'-white feathers ; entire under surface of 

 body huffy white, inclining to pure white on the throat ; the under 

 wing-coverts pale fulvous ; the inner lining of the quills pale brown, 

 inclining to fulvous on the inner webs, rather more rufous on the 

 secondaries : " bill whitish horny ; legs greenish plumbeous ; iris 

 red-brown" (Jerdon). Total length 6'5 inches, culmen 0-G, wing 

 2-9.5, tail 3-1, tarsus 0-95. 



Hub. Eastern Himalayas, extending into Upi)er Assam and N. 

 Cachar. 



a. Ad. sk. Sikhim. Henry Seehohm, Esq. [P.]. 



2. Chleuasicus fulvifrons. 



Temnoris fulvifrons, Hodys. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mas,, Passeres, 

 pi. 109 A. figs. 2, 2* (no. 684) 5 id. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 83 

 (1844) ; id. P. Z. S. 1845, p. 31. 



