G08 TIMELIID^. 



3. Minla castaneiceps. 



Miula castaneceps, Hodgson, Iiid. Review, 1838, p. 33. 

 Propanis castaniceps, Jlodr/s. J. A. S. Bene/, x. p. 29 (1841). 

 Cei'thiparus castaneceps, Hodx/s. J. A. S. Beng. xiii. p. 939 ; id. i)i 



Graifs Zool. Misc. p. 84 (1844). 

 Miiila castaniceps, Gray, Cat. Mamm. etc. Nepal pres. Ilodgs. p. 94 



(184G). 

 Leiothrix castaniceps, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 269 (1845) ; Blijth, Cat. B. 



Mm. As. Soc. p. 100 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 333 (1850) ; Horsf. 



c^ Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. i. p. 367 (1854) ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 2o5 



(1863) ; Grai), Hand-l. B. i. p. 313, no. 4677 (1879) ; Hume, Str. 



F. 1879, p. 104. 



Adult. General colour above warm olive-brown, the lesser and 

 median wing-coverts like the back ; greater wing-coverts and 

 primary-coverts black, the innermost of the former with olive- 

 brown margins ; quills dusky brown, edged with olive-brown, 

 the innermost secondar'es entirely of the latter colour, the primaries 

 margined with oran'^e for a great part of their length, the outer 

 secondaries orange at their exureme base, the outermost primaries 

 margined with gi'ey near their bases ; upper tail-coverts and tail- 

 feathers du slaty grey, the latter dusky on their inner webs ; crown 

 of head and napo chestnut, with paler centres of reddish buff, those 

 on the fore part of the crown with broad centres of white ; hiud 

 neck washed with chestnut and streaked with pale fulvous centres ; 

 lores yellowish white ; eyelid and a broad superciliary streak white, 

 extending to the sides of the nape, and succeeded by a broad black 

 stripe above the ear-coverts, which are silver}' white streaked with 

 black ; sides of neck warm olive-brown mottled with white ; feathers 

 round the eye and below the latter yellowish white ; in front of the 

 eye a spot of dusky blackish feathers ; cheeks yellowish buff, streaked 

 with black and washed with wavm olive-brown ; throat, fore neck, 

 and centre of body yellowish white, purer white on the abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts, the latter with olive-brown bases ; sides of body 

 and flanks warm olive-brown, as also the thigh-feathers, which have 

 pale tips ; axillaries and under wing-coverts white, the latter slightly 

 tinged with yellow ; quills dusky below, white along the edge of the 

 inner web ; " bill dusky brown ; logs fleshy ; iris brown " {Jerdon). 

 Total length 4-15 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-2, tail 1-8, tarsus 0'8. 



Hah. Eastern Himalayas. 



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



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



(Types of species.) 



d-f. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Plodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



^. Ad. ; A. Juv. sk. Nepal (^o(^/7awj). India Museum. 



i, k. Ad. sk. Nepal. Gould Collection. 



/, w. Ad. sk. Sikhim (Mandelli). H. Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 



