51U TIMELIIUJE. 



typical specimens having been mounted in the India Museum, and 

 their consequent fading from exposure to the light. 



Hah. The Terai countrj- below the Himalajas from Oude to 

 Bootan, as well as round the hills of Munipur and Cachar, Khasia 

 hills, lie. 



a,b. Ad.sk. ^e-pA\. i^B. H, Hudymn). India Museum. (Types of Pye- 



torhis loHfjiroftris, Moore.) 



c. Ad. sk. Oude Terai. Capt. Stackhouse PiuwiU [P.]. 



d. Ad. sk. Bootan Do.iars, Feb. 1878 Major J. Biddulph [C.]. ^ 



(JMandeUi). 



2. PYCTORHIS. Type. 



Erj^hrops, Hodg<. MSS. 

 Pyetoris, Hodqs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 83 (1844) ; id. 



'p. Z. S. 1*45, p. L^4 P. sinensis. 



Chrysomma, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 602 (1845) .... P. sinensis. 



Ratu/e. The whole of the Indian peninsula and Ceylon, extending 

 westwards into Scinde and eastwards through Assam and the Bur- 

 mese countries to Pegu. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Bill blackish ; lores conspicuously white. 



a'. Nasal operculum yellow siHe7ms, p. 510. 



b'. Nasal operculum black, like the bill iiasalis, p. 512. 



b. Bill pale horn-brown ; eyebrow and lores ashy grey . altirostris, p. 512. 



1. Pyctorhis sinensis. 



Chinese Titmouse, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. part 2, p. 555 (1783). 



Parus sinen.sis, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 1012 (1788, ex Lath.). 



Timalia hypoleuca, Franklin, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 118 ; id. J. A. S. Beng. 



i. p. 313 (1832) ; Jerd. Madr. Juurn. x. p. 2(J0 (1839) ; Biyfh, Ann. 



S,- Mai/. Nat. Hist. xii. p. 97 (1843) ; id. J. A. 8. Beng. xi. p. 705 



(1842"), xii. p. 181 ( 1843) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 228 (1840). 

 Timalia iDicolor, Lafr. Mag. de Zool. 1835, Ois. text to pi. xxxix. 

 Timalia horstieldii," Jard.'^- Selby, III. Orn. pi. llOj Blyth, J. A. S. 



Beng. xi. p. 199 (1842) ; Gray, Cat. Mumm. etc. Nepal pres. Hodgs. 



p. 80 (1840). 

 Erythrops melodius, Hodgs. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus., Passeres, 



pi. 172 c (no. 740). 

 Pyctorhis h^^)oleuca, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 83 (1844). 

 Chrysomma" hvpoleucos, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 602 (1845). 

 Chr"vsomma siuense, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xvi. p. 454 (1847); id. 



Cat. B. Mm. As. Soc. p. 150 (1849); Bp. Consp. i. p. 216 (1850); 



Horsf. if- Moore, Cat. B. E.l. Co. Mm. i. p. 2-30 (1854). 

 Pyctorhis sinensis, Jerd. B. Ltd. ii. p. 15 (1863) ; Beavan, Ihis, 1867, 



p. 431 ; Stoliczka, J. A. S. Beng. xxxvii. pt. 2, p. 36 (1868) : King, 



t. c. p. 214 (1868) ; Blanf. op. cit. xl. p. 273 (1871 ) ; Hume, Nests 



S,- Eggs Ltd. B. p. 237 (1873) ; id. Sir. F. 1873, p. 179 ; Ada7n, t. c. 



p 378 ; Lloyd, Ibis, 1873, p. 410; Crodwin-Austen, J. A. S. Beng. 



xiiii. pt. 2, p. 160 (1874) ; Ball, Str. F. 1874, p. 408 ; Hume, t. c. 



