613 



tail-coverts ochraceous buff; axillaries and under wing-coverts 

 white ; quills dusky brown below, white along the edge of the 

 inner web ;" bill fleshy brown; legs fleshy yellow; iris brown " 

 {Jerdon). Total length 5-4 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-5 tail 2-05 

 tarsus 0-8. ' ' 



The two specimens from the Khasia hills in the British Museum 

 belong to what is apparently a richly-coloured race. I have seen 

 a bird from the Khasias and another from Assam in Capt. Wardlaw- 

 Eamsay's collection, which agreed with the Museum birds in the 

 much deeper and richer tint of the orange on the sides of the neck 

 without the straw-coloured shade which is conspicuous in Hima- 

 layan examples. The sides of the body, too, are more fulvescent 

 brown, with more distinct whitish streaks, and the throat is purer 

 white with the blackish shaft-lines weU pronounced. 



Bab. The whole of the Himalayas from Simla to Bootan, ex- 

 tending also to the Khasia hills. 



a,b. S 2 ad. sk. Between Simla and Capt. Stackhouse Pin- 



Mussoorie. -will [P 1 



c, d. Ad. sk. N.W. Himalayas. Capt. Stackhouse Pin- 



e. cS ad. sk. Sheopuri Ridge, Nepal Dr. J. Scully fP 1 ' 



valley, May 22, 1878. "-'■ 



•"• ^^- '*• ^'epal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



rp.i 



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



^.,. Ad.sk. Nepal. B.^S^H^d^SX 



rp.i 



m, no, p. \A. 8k. ^^^al {B. H. Hodyson). India Museum. 



q. Ad. sJi Darjiling. Gould CoUection. 



r s, Ad sk. Darjdmg {rearson). India Museum. 



t. V, V Ad. sk. Sikhim ( MandeUi). H. Seebohm, Esq. FP 1 



w.-r. Ad. sk. Khasia hills (/^r;)^//,). India Museum. 



2. Ixulus occipitalis. 



Siva occipitalis, Bhjth, J. A. S. Bene/, xiii. p. 937 (1844). 



Ixulus occipitalis, Blyth, J. A. S. Bmg. xiv. p. 652 (1845) ; id op 

 cit. XVI. p. 448 (1847) ; id. Cat. B. Mm. As. Soc. p. 100 (1849) • 

 Moare, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 141; Ilorsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B.EI Co 

 Mus. i. p. 411 (1854); Gould, B. Asia, part xiv. (1862); Jerd 

 B.Ind.n. p. 259(1868); Godtcin-Aust. J. A. S. Bena xxxi^ 

 ^ p. 109 (1870) ; Hume, Sir. F. 1879, p. 104. 



Yuhina occipitalis, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 276, no. 4066 (1869). 



AduU male. General colour above dusky olive-brown, with the 

 back streaked with narrow white shaft-lines, the rump uniform and 

 slightly washed with fulvous ; lesser and median wing-coverts like 

 the back and similarly streaked ; greater and primary-coverts as 

 well as the quills, dusky brown, edged with yellowish' olive, some- 

 what ashy towards the ends of the primaries ; upper tail-coverts 

 light brown, margined with yellowish olive ; head crested, of a dull 

 orange-brown colour, the long feathers dusky brown in the centre, 



