620 TIMELUD-B. 



Young. Coloured like the adult, but a little more fluffy in plumage, 

 the characters of the eyebrow and black stripe on the sides of the 

 head not so strongly pronounced, the general colour being also some- 

 what duller. 



There is considerable variation in the strength of the brown 

 striping on the breast, and in some birds it is scarcely visible. 

 Specimens from the North-west Himalayas are paler than Nepal 

 examples. 



Hab. Himalayas, extending into the hill-ranges of North-eastern 

 Bengal. 



a. Ad. ; b. Imm. Between Simla and Mus- Capt. Stackliouse Pin- 



sk. soorie. will [P.]. 



f, d, e. Ad. St. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



[P.]. 



/, g. Ad.; h. Juv. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



sk. [P-]- 



i, k, I. Ad. sk. Nepal (Hodgson). India Museum. 



m, n, 0, p. Ad. sk. Darjiling (Mandelli). Heniy Seebohm, Esq, 



2. Alcippe nipalensis. 



Siva nipalensis, Hodgs. hid. Revino, p. 89 ; Gray, Cat. Marmn. etc. 



Nepal pres. ITodgson,^. 95 (1846). 

 Leiothrix nipalensis, Gray, Gen.B.i.^. 269 (1845); id. Hand-l. 



B. i. p. 313, no. 4675 (1869). 

 loropus nipalensis, Hodgs. J. A. S. Beng. xiii. p. 937 (1844). 

 Alcippe nipalensis, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xvi. pp. 448, 462 (1847) ; 



id. Cat. B. Mm. As. Soc. p. 148 (1849) ; Bp. Cotisp. i. p. 260 



(1850) ; Horsf. S,- Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 226 (1854); 



Jerd. B. Ind.'n. p. 18 (1863); Godwin-Austen, J. A. S. Beng. 



xxxix. p. 103 (1870) ; Jerd. Ibis, 1872, p. 298 ; mt77ie, Sir. F. 1874, 



p 476 ; id. Sir. F. 1875, p. 117 ; David ^- Oustalet, Ois. Chine, 



p! 218 (1877) ; Hmne <$• Davison, Str. F. 1878, pp. 260, 513 ; 



Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 95 ; Sculh/, t. c. p. 287 ; Brooks, t. c. p. 471 ; 



Hume, Str. F. 1881, p. 206 ; Oati's, B. Brit. Burm. i. p. 68 (1883). 

 Alcippe cinerea (nee Eyton), David, Nouv. Arch. Mus. vii. Bull. p. 14 



(1871). 

 Alcippe hueti, David, Ann. Sci. Nat. (5) xix. art. 9, p. 4 (18/4). 



Adult. General colour above fulvous-brown, duller on the upper 

 back, the wing-coverts dull fidvous- brown : primary-coverts and 

 quills dusky brown, externally fulvous-brown like the lower back, 

 the innermost secondaries entirely of the latter colour ; tail-feathers 

 light brown, externally fulvous-brown ; entire head and neck dull 

 ashy grey, extending onto the mantle ; a streak of dusky blackish 

 running along the sides of the crown ; lores, feathers in front of the 

 eye and round the latter white ; ear-coverts and sides of face ashy 

 brown, a little dusky below the eye ; fore part of cheeks with a 

 hoary shade ; chin "whitish ; remainder of under surface light 

 ochreous buff, deeper on the flanks and sides of the body ; centre of 

 the breast and abdomen white ; under tail-coverts ochreous buff ; 



