616 TIMELIID-E. 



under surface of body white, washed with dingy olive-brown on the 

 sides and flanks, the sides of the upper breast reddish brown, streaked 

 with white ; thighs brown ; under tail-coverts white at the ends, 

 with concealed light brown bases, the shafts white : axillaries and 

 under wing-coverts white, the latter with dusky bases near the 

 edge of the wing ; quills ashy brown below, whitish along the edge 

 of the inner web. Total length 4-9 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-6, 

 tail 2-3, tarsus 0-65. (Mus. H. SeeboJim.) 



The female is similar to the male in plumage. {David Sf 

 OustaUt.) 



Hah. Mountains of Western Fokien ; but Abbe David believes 

 that it goes south on the approach of winter. 



2. Staphidia castaneiceps. 



Ixulus castaniceps, Moore, P. Z. S. 1S54, p. 141 ; Horsf. ^- Moore, 



Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 411 (1854) ; Goidd, B. Asia, part xv. 



(1863). 

 Vnhina castaneiceps, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 276, no. 4067 (1869). 

 Staphida castaneiceps, S^ci7ih. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 374. 

 iStaphidea castaneiceps, Gocho.-Auste7i, J. A. S. Beng. xlvii. pt. ii. 



p. 20 (1878) ; Hume, Str. F 1878, vol. ii. p. 403 ; id. Str. F. 1879, 



p. 104. 



Adult (type of species). General colour above dusky brown, re- 

 lieved by white shaft-streaks on the mantle and upper back ; wing- 

 coverts "exactly like the back and streaked in the same way ; 

 bastard wing and primary-coverts blackish brown ; quills dark 

 brown, edged with hghter brown, the inner secondaries with white 

 shafts ; tail-feathers blackish brown, shaded with lighter brown 

 near the base, all but the four centre feathers tipped with white, 

 which increases in extent towards the outermost, where the white 

 also extends some distance up the outer web ; forehead and top 

 of head rufous-brown, mottled with ashy-brown margins to the 

 feathers ; hinder part of crown chestnut-brown, becoming brighter 

 chestnut on the occiput and nape ; lores and feathers round the eye 

 whitish : ear-coverts chestnut, streaked with pale shaft-Hues ; an 

 indistinct superciliary streak of ashy whitish above the ear-coverts ; 

 cheeks and under surface of body dirty white, washed with brown 

 on the flanks ; under tail-coverts dull white, with dusky-brown 

 bases to the feathers ; under wing-coverts and axillaries bufly 

 white : quills dusky brown below% whitish along the edge of the 

 inner web. Total length 5.-5 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-3, tail 

 2-15, tarsus 0-05. 



Hab. Hills of North-eastern Bengal. 



a. Ad. sk. Khasia hiUs (GV/^fA)*- India Museum. 



(Type of species.) 



Erroneouely recorded from Afghanistan. 



