3. MINLA. 607 



with vermilion ; all the tuil-feathors white along the inner web, 

 the centre ones conspicuously so ; head and hind neck black, 

 bordered by a broad white eyebrow, which extends also along the 

 sides of the nape and hind neck ; eyelid white ; lores, feathers 

 below the eye, and ear-coverts black ; cheeks and under surface of 

 bodjr white, shaded with ashy on the sides of the breast and flanks ; 

 centre of breast and abdomen yellow ; under tail-covcrts yellow ; 

 under wing- and tail-coverts white ; quills blackish below, white 

 along the edge of the inner web ; " bill blackish ; legs horny yellow ; 

 iris bi'own " (Jerdon). Total length 4-5 inches, culmen 0'6, 

 wing 2-45, tail 0-95, tarsus 0-75. 



The female is white beneath, and the colour somewhat duller 

 (Jerdon). I have not seen a properly identified female skin ; but 

 from the very evident way in which the colours of the present 

 species become dim, I should have fancied that the paler birds were 

 only faded specimens, and that the difference in colour mentioned 

 by Jerdon was not sexual. 



Hab. Eastern Himalayas, extending into the bills of North- 

 eastern Bengal. 



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



(Types of species.) 

 c, d. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



e,f. Ad. sk. Nepal (Hodgson). Gould Collection. 



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



I. Ad.sk. 'Da,v\\\mg (Jerdon). C. Bygrave Wharton, Esq 



m, n, 0. Ad. sk. Sikhim {Mandelli). H. Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 



2. Minla jerdoni. 



Minla jerdoni, J. Verremix, Nouv. Arch. Mus.\i. Bull. p. 38 (1870) ; 

 id. op. cit. vii. p. 52 (1871), viii. pi. 2. fig. 2 (1872) ; David \- Oust. 

 Ois. Chine, p. 224, pi. Ixviii. (1877). 



Iris light yellow ; bill blackish, tinted with blue at the base of 

 the lower mandible ; feet and claws yellowish green ; vertex and 

 nape black ; a broad superciliarj- stripe of white extending as far as 

 the back ; a black band from the lores to the posterior region of 

 the neck ; back and rump olive ; upper tail-coverts black ; throat 

 whitish ; chest and rest of the imder surface yellowish white, 

 having on the sides of the neck and chest, as well as on the flanks, 

 obscure flakes of olive ; under tail-coverts yellowish ; rectrices 

 black, terminating with a band of reddish white, and edged with 

 red on the outer webs ; upper wing-coverts black, bordered with 

 white ; quills black, the first ones variegated exteriorly with a 

 particoloured edging of red and yellow, the latter ones marked at 

 the points with a white spot, which increases in size on each 

 feather. Total length 0-14 metre, tail 0-046, tarsus 0-021, biU 

 from front 0-011. {David 6f Ousialet.) 



Hab. Replaces the foregoing species in the hills of Western 

 Setchuen, where it passes the summer. 



