618 TIMELIIDJS. 



out ; outermost tail-feather | inch shorter than the middle pair, and 

 largely tipped with white, as is also the next and the antepenul- 

 timate, and next within gradually less so, the outer four feathers 

 successively graduating. {Bhjth, I c.) " Iris blood red-brown ; bill 

 dark horn ; legs reddish horn " (TickeU). 



Bab. This species was discovered on Mooleyit mountain in 

 Tenasserim by the late Col. Tickell, but has never been procured 

 since. On the differences between the typo specimen and /S. rujl- 

 genis of Sikhim, see Mr. Blanford's note to Col. Godwin-Austen, 

 quoted by the latter gentleman (I. c). 



6. ALCIPPE. 



Type. 



Alcippe, Bli/th, J. A. S. Beng. xiii. p. 384 (1844) A. ciuerea. 



Proparus, Hodgs. J. A. S. Beng. xiii. p. 938 (1844) .... A. viuipectus. 

 Schceniparus, Hume, Str. F. 1874, p. 447 (pt.). 



Mange. Hills of Southern and Western India and Ceylon ; Hima- 

 layas and hills of Xorth-eastern Bengal, through the Burmese 

 countries and the Malayan peninsula to Borneo ; Southern China 

 and Formosa. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Forehead light, of the same colom- as the rest of 



crown, and generally with a streak of blackish 



running down the sides of the neck {^A. 



phcBocephala and A. cinerea excepted *). 



a' . "With a white superciliary streak ; wings 



brighter than the back, orange-brown, the 



primaries edged with grey vinipectus, p. 619. 



b'. With no white eyebrow ; wings not bright, 

 all the quills edged with brown. 

 a". Crown uniform. 

 a'". Ear-coverts grey. 



ai. Roimd the eye a conspicuous ring of 

 white feathers. 

 «'. Larger : paler in colour ; bill yel- 

 lowish ; flanks and under tail-co- 

 verts light fiilvous-brown ttipalensis, p. 620. 



6\ Smaller : darker ; biU blackish 

 brown ; flanks and imder tail-coverts 



fawn bufl" morrisoniana, p. 621 . 



t*. Region of the eye enthely grey. 



c'. Under surface of body pale fulves- 



ceut, a little deeper on the sides . . phmocephala, p. 622. 

 d^. Under surface of body ashy grey, 



whiter in the centre of the abdomen, cinerea, p. 622. 

 6'". Ear-coverts fulvescent like the under 



surface of the body -phayrii, p. 623. 



* I do not insist much on these blackish lines in the Key, as they are some- 

 times difficult to distinguish ; but they are very characteristic of some of the 

 Proparus section of the genus. 



