5U8 TlMEUIUj:. 



Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 149 (1850) ; Ilor.sf. l^- Moore, Cat. 



B. E.I. Co. Mm. i. p. 227 (1854); Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 24 (1863) ; 



Bhjth, Ibis, 1865, p. 43 ; Gra;/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 314, no. 4692 



(1869); Godivin-Amten, J. A. S. Beng. xxxix. p. 103 (1870); 



Bhith, Ihis, 1872, p. 90 ; Hume, Nest's Sf Eggs Ind. B. p. 216 



(1873); id. Sir. F. 1874, p. 476, 1875, p. 118 ; Armstrong, Sir. F. 



1876, p. 323; Oates, Str. F. 1877, p. 152; Hume, t. c. p. 153; 



Anders. Zool. E.vped. Ytimian, Aves, p. 634 (1878); Hume 8f 



Darison, Str. F. 1878, vol. i. p. 267. 

 Nanodus pileata. Cab. Mas. Hein. Th. i. p. 77 (1850). 

 Timalia longirostris. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 316, no. 4715 (1869, nee 



Moore). 

 Timalia beng-alensis, Godwin- Auden, J. A. S. Beng. xli. pt. 2, p. 143 



(1872) ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 95; Inr/lis, Str. F. 1880, p. 250. 

 Timelia jerdoni, Waklen, Ann. ^- Maq. Nat. Hist. (4) x. p. 61 (1872) ; 



Blyth' ^- Wald. B. Barm. p. 114 (1875); Hume, Str. F. 1875, 



p. 119. 

 Timelia pileata, Sundev. Av. Meth. Tent. p. 11 (1872); Oates, B. Brit. 



Burm. p. 44 (1883 ). 



Adult. General colour above fiilvous-browii, the wing-coverts 

 like the back ; quills liglit brown, externally fulvous-brown ; tail- 

 feathers light brown, with dusky cross bars under certain lights, 

 and washed with ashy fulvous ; crown of head bright chestnut, 

 relieved by a ereamj'-white band across the forehead, extending over 

 the eye, and separated from the chestnut crown by a narrow line of 

 black ; lores and feathers between the nostrils and the eye black ; 

 cheeks, sides of face, and ear-coverts white, the latter fringed on the 

 extreme hinder margin with grey ; sides of neck ashj' grej', extend- 

 ing upwards onto the sides of the nape ; throat and breast white, 

 the sides of the latter ashy grey, all bl^t the chin liued with mesial 

 shaft-streaks of black ; centre of the belly ochreous buff, the sides 

 of the body fulvous-brown, as also the thighs and under tail- 

 coverts ; axillaries light fulvous-brown, the under wing-coverts pale 

 tawny buff; quills light brown below, ashy fulvous along the edge 

 of the inner web ; " bill black ; eyelids dark bluish grey ; inside of 

 mouth black ; legs purplish brown, claws horn-coloured ; iris dark 

 red " {E. Oates). Total leugth 5-8 inches, culnien 0-7, wing 2-5, 

 tail 2-85, tarsus 0'95. 



The male is larger than the female according to Mr. Hume, the 

 wing in the latter being as small as 2*3 inches, while the male 

 reaches to 2-6 inches in length. 



Ohs. I fail to see any specific difference between the Javan birds 

 and those from India or Burraah ; and I think that the larger bill 

 mentioned by the late Lord Tweeddale as a character for the Javan 

 Timelia is only the sign of the male bird, as suggested by Mr. A. 0. 

 Hume. Whether it extends down the Malaj'an peninsula seems 

 doubtful ; but the specimen in the British Museum from Malacca 

 bears Capt. Pinwill's label, with his own handwriting on it. Mr. 

 Jerdon has also stated that its range extended down the Malayan 

 j)eninsula, but he does not give his authority. 



Hah. From the lower hills of Nepal and Sikhim throughout the 



