5. STAPHIDIA. 615 



5. STAPHIDIA. „ 



Type. 

 Staphida, Swinh. inGoulcfs Birds of Asia, part xxiii. (1871). S. torqueola. 



Range. Eastern Himalayas. Hills of Assam, Burmah, and Te- 

 nasserim, reoccurring in Western Fokien in China. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Chestnut collar round the hind neck, streaked 



with white shaft-lines ; head ashy grey ; back 

 olive-brown, with white shaft-lines on the 

 mantle torqiieola, p. 615. 



b. Hind neck brown like the back, with pale shaft- 



stripes ; no chestnut collar. 

 «'. Hinder crown chestnut ; frontal feathers dark 



brown, with ashy margins to the feathers . . castaneiceps, p. 616. 

 b'. Entire crown ashy grey, with no chestnut on 



the hinder crown ; ear-coverts chestnut .... rujigenis, p. 617. 

 c'. Crown of head greyish brown like the back ; 



no chestnut on ear-coverts striata*, p. 617. 



1. Staphidia torqueola. 



Siva torqueola, Swinh. Ann. ^- Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) v. p. 174 (1870). 

 Staphida torqueola, Sioinh. in Gould's B. Asia, part 2.3 (1871) ; id. 



P. Z. S. 1871. p. 37-3 ; David Si- Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 223 (1877). 

 Staphidea torqueola, Gudw.- Austen, J.A.S.Bcng. xlvii. part ii. p. 20 



(1878). 



^c?»?< (Tingchow, December 1867 ; 11. Swiuhoe : typo of species). 

 General colour above dark earthy brown, the mantle and back re- 

 lieved by white shaft-lines to the feathers ; wing-coverts exactly 

 like the back and streaked in the same manner ; bastard wing, 

 primary-coverts, and quills blackish brown, edged with the brown 

 colour of the back ; the greater coverts and inner secondaries simi- 

 larly coloui'ed but having white shaft-streaks ; tail-feathers blackish 

 brown, lighter brown on the middle ones and near the base of the 

 others, all but the four central feathers tipped with white, in- 

 creasing in extent towards the outermost, up the outer web of 

 which it extends for some distance ; head dusk}' slaty brown, a 

 little greyer on the nape ; lores dusky ; ear-coverts chestnut, slightly 

 streaked with whitish shaft-lines, this chestnut colour extending as 

 a collar round the hind neck, where, however, it is not so strongly 

 streaked with white as on the sides of the neck, which are also 

 chestnut ; cheeks dark chestnut, minutely streaked with white ; 



* Not having seen an example of this s]5ecies, I have assigned its position 

 in the Key from the description alone, which is given in full {infra, p. 617). 



