5. STAPHIDI.V. 617 



3. Staphidia rufigenis. 



Ixulus striatus, Jerd. B. Incl. ii. p. 260 (1863, nee Blyth). 



Ixulus rufigenis, Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 106. 



Staphidea plumbeiceps, Godwin-Austen, Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) 



XX. p. 519 (1877) ; id. J. A. S. Beng. xlvii. part ii. p. 20 (1878); 



Hnme, Str. F. 1878, vol. ii. p. 143 ; id. Str. F. 1879, p. 104. 

 Staphidea rufigenis, Oodw.-Austen, J. A. S. Benq. xlvii. part ii. p. 20 



(187S); Hume, Str. F. 1878, vol. ii, p. 14b; id. Str. F. 1879, 



p. 104. 



Adult. Geueral colour above brown, with rather distinct whitish 

 shaft- streaks ; wing-covcrts like the back: bastard wing and pri- 

 mary-coverts blackish brown ; quills dark brown, edged with the 

 same colour as the back, the primaries with ashy or whity-brown 

 margins towards their tips, the inner secondaries with white shafts; 

 upper tail-coverts a little more reddish brown than the back ; tail- 

 feathers blackish brown, washed with lighter brown near the base 

 of the feathers, all but the centre ones being tipped with white, 

 which increases in extent towards the outermost feather, on which 

 it occupies also a little portion of the outer web ; head crested, the 

 feathers dusky brown, edged with grey, and having whitish shaft- 

 lines ; nape ashy grey ; lores whitish ; sides of crown behind the 

 eye rufous with whitish shaft-streaks ; ear-coverts rufous with 

 indistinct paler shaft-lines ; cheeks whitish, the feathers mottled 

 with rufous edgings, especiaU}' on the hinder portion ; a slightly 

 indicated moustachial line of ashy grey ; under surface of body 

 whitish, more or less tinged with fulvous, especially on the sides, 

 the flanks beiug fulvous-brown ; under tail-coverts white, with dusky 

 bases to the feathers ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white with 

 a slight fulvous tinge : quOls duU brown below, slightly fulvescent 

 along the edge of the inner web ; " bill dusky brown, fleshy yellow 

 at the base ; legs pale brown : iris light brown" (Jt/TZo/;). Total 

 length 5 inches, culmeu 0-45, wing 2'35, tail 2-1, tarsus 0"Go. 



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

 eastern Bengal, 



o. Ad. sk. Sikhini (Mandelli). Hem-y Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 



4. Staphidia striata. 



Ixulus striatus, Bli,f/i. J. A. S. Beng. xxviii. p. 413 (1859). 

 Pyenonotus nanus, TieA-cli, J. A. S. Beng. xxviii. p. 452. 

 Yuhina striata, Grag, Hand-l. B. i. p. 276, no. 4068 (1869). 

 Staphidea striata, Bhjth i^- Wald. B. Burm. p. 110 (1875) ; Godtoin- 



Au.it. J. A. S. Beng. xlvii. part ii. p. 20 (1878) ; Hume, Str. F. 



1879, p. 104 ; Oates, B. Brit. Burm. i. p. 150 (1883). 



Allied to/, castatiicej^s, Moore, and, like that species, with graduated 

 outer tail-feathers ; bill moderately stout, as in LvuJus occipitalis. 

 Length about 5 inches, of closed wing 2|- inches, and of tail the 

 same ; bill to gape ^, and tarsi 4 inch. Colour greyish brown above, 

 each feather with a white mesial streak ; below albescent through- 



