604 TIMELIII)^. 



" bill dusky, yellowisli beneath ; legs pale brownish yellow ; iris 

 dark brown" (Jerdon). Total length 3-5 inches, culmen 0-55, 

 wing 1-9, tail 0-i)5, tarsus O'So. 



Some specimens show more of the greenish mottling on the breast. 

 These may be females or younger birds, as the general colour is not 

 so bright. 



Young. Different from the adult, the general colour being very 

 dull olive-green ; sides of face also dark olive-green, tinged with 

 rufous on the ear-coverts ; cheeks and under surface of body dull 

 chestnut, yellow down the centre of the breast and abdomen. 



Nab. Eastern Himalayas, extending into the hills of Korth- 

 eastern Bengal. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



(Types of Tesiajlaviventer.) 

 c, d, e. Ad. ;/, //. Juv. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



sk. ' 



h, i. Ad. sk. Nepal {Hodgson). India Museum. 



k. Juv. sk. Darjiling. C. Fotheringham, Esq. [P.]. 



2. Oligura cyaniventris. 



Tesia cyaniventer, Hodgs. Journ. A. S. Beng. vi. p. 101 (1837) ; id. 



Icon.' ined. in Brit. Miis., Passeres, pi. xlviii. fig. 3 (no. 489) ; 



Bltjth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xi. p. 182 ( 1842) ; id. op. cit. xiv. 



p. 586 (1845) ; Gray, Cat. Mamm. etc. Nepal j)res. Ilodr/s. p. 62 



(1846); id. Gen. of B. i. p. lo6 (1847) ; Bhjth, Cat. B. Mm. As. 



Soc. p. 178 (1849); Bp. Consp. i. p. 257 (1850); Morsf. ^- Moore, 



Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 179 (1854) ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 487 



(1862); Gould, B. Asia, pt. 10(1858); Godicin-Aust. J. A. S. 



Beng. xxxix. p. 101 (1870) ; Hume, Sfr. F. 1879, p. 93. 

 Saxicola? olivea, McClell. P. Z. S. 1839, p. 161. 

 Olio-ura (Tesia) cyaniventer, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. 3Iisc. p. 82 



(1844). 

 Tesia auriceps, Hodys. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus., Passeres, App. pi. 29 



(no. 939) ; id. J.' A. S. Beng. xvi. p. 137 ; Bhjth, t. c. p. 474. 

 Oligura evaniventer, Hodgs. P. Z. S. 1845, p. 25. 

 Tesia cyaniventris, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 188, no. 2556. 



Adult. General colour above dark olive-greenish; wing-coverts 

 and quills dusky brown, externally dark green like the back ; tail- 

 feathers dull green : head glistening yellow, more or less obscured 

 with dull oily green, the bases to the feathers being dusky greenish ; 

 lores, sides of face, and sides of neck dark slaty blue, blackish above 

 the eye and the ear-coverts, so as to form a black line separating 

 the face from the crown ; entire under surface of body slaty blue, 

 a little lighter on the abdomen, where the feathers have hoary grey 

 edges ; thighs olive-green ; under wing-coverts dull green ; quills 

 dusky brown below, narrowly edged with lighter brown along the 

 margin of the inner web ; " bill dusky above, reddish beneath ; legs 

 pale reddish brown ; iris brown " (Jerdon). Total length 3-5 inches, 

 culmen 0-55, wing 2-05, tail 0'65, tarsus 0-9. 



In many specimens the head, instead of being yellow, is coloured 



