622 TIMELIID^. 



a. Ad. sk. Formosa. R- Swinhoe, Esq. [C.l. 



b. Ad. sk. Formosa, March 1866 {E. Henry Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 



Swiiihoe). 



c. Ad. sk. Tingchow, Formosa, Jan. 1866 Henry Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 



(-R. Siviiihoe). 



4. Alcippe phseocephala. 



Timaha poiocephala, Jerd. Madr. Journ. xin. p. 169 (1844). 



Macronus poliocephalus, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 210 (1846). 



Alcippe poiocephala, Blyth, ' Cat. B. Miis. As. Soc. p. 148 (1849) ; 



Bp. Consp. i. p. 260 (1850) ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 18 (1863) ; id. 



Ibis, 1872, p. 298 ; Davison Sf Wenden, Str. F. 1878, vol. ii, p. 82 ; 



Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 95 ; Blanf. t. c. p. 181 ; Vidal, Str. F. 



1880, p. 83 ; Butler, t. c. p. 399. 

 Malacopterou poiocephala, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 317, no. 4740 



(1869). 



Adult female. General colour above fiilvous-brown, the mantle 

 ashy brown washed with Mvous ; wing-coverts fulvous-brown, the 

 primary-coverts dusky brown edged with fulvous-brown ; quills 

 blackish brown, externally deep fulvous-brown, the inner secondaries 

 entirely fulvous-brown ; upper tail-coverts deep fulvous-brown, in- 

 clining to rufous-brown ; tail dark reddish brown, washed externally 

 with rufous ; head and nape light ashy grey, with no blackish band 

 down the sides of the crown ; lores dull whitish ; sides of face and 

 ear-coverts light brown, with whitish shaft-lines to the latter; 

 under surface of body light tawny buff, ashy whitish on the chin, 

 and white down the centre of the breast and abdomen ; under wing- 

 coverts and axiUaries tawny buff; quills sepia-brown below, light 

 reddish along the edge of the inner web. Total length 6-2 inches, 

 culmen 0-6, wing 2-7, tail 2-5, tarsus 0-85. 



Adult male. Similar in colour to the female. Total length 5-8 

 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-7, tail 2-35, tarsus 0-8. 



The Travancore birds are the richest in colour, and the Kajkote 

 specimen is by far the palest in tint. 



Hah. Hills of Southern India, extending as high as Xattiawar. 



a. S ad. sk. Bridge, Travancore, April 4, F. W. Bourdillon, Esq. 



1879. [C.]. 



b. 9 ad. sk. Mynall, Travancore, Dec. 12, F. W. Bom-dillon, Esq. 



1878. [C.]. 



c. $ ad. sk. Mahabaleshur, April 4,1870. E. W. Gates, Esq. 



<^. Ad. sk. Kajkote, Kattiawar, June 24, Major Hayes Lloyd 



1867. . [P.]- 



5. Alcippe cinerea. 



Alcippe cinerea, Blyth, J. A. S. Benq. xiii. p. 384 ; id. Cat. B. Mus. 



As. Soc. p. 148 (1849); Bp. Consp. i. p. 260(1850); Horsf. 8r 



Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 406 (1854) ; Hume, Str. F. 



1879, p. 60 ; id. Str. F. 1880, p. 128. 



Adult. General colour above fulvous-brown, slightly lighter on 



