2. PYCTURHIS. 511 



p. 475; id. Str. F. 1875, p. 115, 187(5, p. 34; Fairb. t:^. pp. 258, 

 265; Bhjth i^ Walden, B. Btirm. p. 117 (1875); Godwm-Anst. 

 J. A. S. Be7i(/. xlv. pt. 2, p. 74 (1876) ; Outes, Str. F^ 1877, p. 151 ; 

 Anderson, Zuol. Exp. Yunnan, Aves, p. 637 (1878) ; Hume 8f 

 iJavison, Sir. F. 1878, vol. i. p. 258 ; Davison 4'- Wenden, Str. F. 

 1878, vol. 2, p. 84; Bull, t.c. p. 213; Buthr, Cat. B. Sind etc. 

 p. 29 (1879) ; Hmne, Str. F. 187'J, p. !>5 ; Doig, t. c. p. 371 ; Vidal, 

 Str. F. 1880, p. 63 ; Butler, t. c. p. 3fi9 ; id. B. S. Bombay Pres. 

 p. 41 (1880) ; Gates, B. Brit. Burm. p. 46 (1883). 

 Timalia sinensis, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 316, no. 4714 (18C9). 



Adult. General colour above rufescent brown, more ruddj' on the 

 head and neck ; -wing-coverts tawny brown ; quills light brown, 

 externally rufous, the inner secondaries entirely of the latter colour ; 

 tail-feathers brown edged with rufous; lores and a small line above 

 the ear-coverts white ; round the eye a naiTow ring of white 

 feathers; ear- coverts brown like the head, excepting the fore part 

 of them, which is white like the cheeks and feathers below the eye ; 

 throat aud chest pure white ; remainder of under surface of body . 

 creamy white, as well as the flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts ; 

 under wing-coverts fulvous, the axillaries whitish, the outer coverts 

 light reddish ; quills pale brown, light rufous along the inner web ; 

 " bill black, with the nostrils deep yellow ; legs orpiment-ycllow ; 

 irides dark brown, with an outer circle of buff; orbits bright 

 orange " (Jerdon). Total length 0-5 inches, culmcn 0-6, wing 2-5, 

 tail 3"5, tarsus 1. 



The female does not differ in colour from the male. 



YoKHf/ (Coonoor; E. G. AVardlaw Eamsay). Coloured like the 

 adult, but more fluffy in plumage ; a slight shade of olivaceous above, 

 and the head and wings somewhat less rufous than in the old birds ; 

 underneath somewhat whiter ; " bill dark brown ; legs yellowish 

 brown ; iris pale brown '" (M. G. W. li.). 



Captain Legge was uncertain whether the bird from Southern 

 India was the same as the black-nosed race from Ceylon or the 

 yellow-nosed race of continental India. A series in Captain AVardlaw 

 Kamsay's collection shows that the South-Indian bird is identical 

 with true P. sintnsis from other localities, and P. iiascdis must be 

 held to be peculiar to Ceylon. 



Birds of the year will probably be found to be paler and more 

 fulvescent in tone of i)lumage than adults. 



Specimens from Nepal seem to be darker than those from 

 Southern India, which are not only paler in general plumage, but 

 have also the head nearly uniform in colour with the back. In- 

 dependently of the fact that wo know nothing of the changes of 

 plumage (if any) of the present species, and therefore cannot say if 

 these slight differences are due to age only, it appears that examples 

 from Behar and Calcutta are intermediate : and therefore the ques- 

 tion of there being two species cannot be entertained. 



Ilab. The whole of the Indian peninsula from Sindh eastwards, 

 not ascending the hills, extending into the Burmese countries as far 

 as Moulmein in N. Tcnasserim, and ranging into Siam. 



