614 TIMELIID-E. 



those on the occiput largely tipped with white, so as to form an 

 occipital patch ; lores and feathers above and below the eye dusky 

 blackish ; ear-coverts streaked with white, the feathers being white 

 in the centre, brown along the margins ; sides of crown and sides 

 of neck bright orange-chestnut ; hind neck and mautle lighter 

 orange-brown ; cheeks mottled, the feathers being orauge-brown, 

 with white bases and dusky spots ; throat dull white ; fore neck 

 and breast pale vinous, streaked down the centre with dusky brown; 

 centre of upper abdomen a little whiter, streaked with dusky ; sides 

 of body brown ; vent and under tail-coverts ochraceous butf, deeper 

 on the latter ; axillaries and under wing-coverts white ; quills 

 dusky brown below, white along the edge of the inner web. Total 

 length 5-2 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2*75, tail 2-15, tarsus 0-8. 



Huh. Eastern Himalayas, extending into the hills of North- 

 eastern Bengal, 



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



r. Ad. sk. Sikhim {MandeUi). H. Seebohm, Esq. [P.J. 



d, e. Ad, sk, Khasia hills (Jerdon), Gould Collection. 



3. Ixulus humilis. 



Ixulus humilis, Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 106 ; id. ^' Davison, Str. F. 



1878, vol, i. p. 374 ; Oates, B. Brit. Bunn. i. p. 149 (1883). 

 Staphidia humilis, Hume, Str. F, 1879, p. 104. 



Upper mandible black ; lower mandible pale brown ; legs and 

 feet fleshy brown ; irides red-brown. The forehead, crown, occiput 

 and full broad occipital crest, back, entire visible portions of closed 

 wings and tail, cheeks, ear-coverts, a nearly uniform brown ; the 

 upper tail-coverts similar, but with a slightly more olivaceous 

 tinge ; lores and an obscure stripe on either side from the gapo, 

 under the cheeks and ear-coverts, a richer and darker brown ; chin, 

 throat and sides of neck, and entire lower surface of body silky 

 white, everywhere (except on the middle of the abdomen) with 

 longitudinal brown streaks, very narrow (as in /. fiavicoUis) on 

 chin and throat and breast, broader on sides, flanks, and lower 

 abdomen, and occupying nearly the whole feather on lower tail- 

 coverts. Tibial feathers brown. Wing-lining and inner margins 

 of quills silky white. Length 5-2 inches, biU from gape 0-6, wing 

 2-5, tail 1'8, tarsus 0-8, {Hume, t. c.) 



Mr. Hume described this bird as a typical Ixulus, but he after- 

 wards transferred it to the genus Staphidia. The absence of white 

 tips to the tail-feathers and the non-graduated tail would show, 

 however, that it cannot be referred to the latter genus. 



Hah. Mooleyit in the central Tenasserim hills. 



