6. ALcippE. 627 



rt, b. Ad. sk. Travancore. Major J. Biddulph [C.l 



c. (S ad. sk. MynaJl, Travancore, 3500 F. Bourdillon, Esq. [G7\. 



feet, Sept. 6, 1878. 



11. Alcippe chrysaea. 



Siva clirysotis *, Jlodffs. Icon, inecl. in Brit. 31us,, App. pi. 122 (no. 



591); Gray, Cat. Mamm. etc. Nepal pres. Hodgs. p. 94 (1846). 

 Proparus cbrysotis, Hodgs. J. A. S. Beng. xiii. p. 938 (1844) ; Blyth, 



op. cit. xvi. p. 448. 

 Proparus (Siva) chrysffius, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 84 (1844). 

 Leiotlirix chrvsotis, Gray, Gen. B. iii. Ajjp. p. 12 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. 



i. p. 3.33 (1850) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 313, no. 4680 (1809). 

 Leiothrix chrysotis (clirvsopteriis ? velleucotisP), Blyth, Cat.B. Mus. 



As. Soc. p. 100 (1849). 

 Leiotlirix ehrysaeus, Horsf. ^ Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 367 



(1854). 

 Proparus chrvsaeus, Jerd. B. Lid. ii. p. 256 (1863) ; Hume, Str. F. 



1879, p. 104. 



Adult. General colour above ashy grey, washed with olive-green 

 on the lower back and rump ; lesser and median wing-coverts ashy 

 grey like the back ; primary-coverts and greater series black, the 

 former with a narrow yellow margin on some of the feathers ; 

 quills black, the outer primaries margined with yellow, becoming 

 paler towards the end of the quills, the inner primaries not margined 

 with yellow, the secondaries edged externally with golden yellow 

 and tipped with white, the innermost broadly margined with white 

 along the inner web ; tail-feathers ashy blackish, margined with 

 golden yellow, broader near the base ; head a little darker than the 

 back, blackish on the forehead and lores ; ear-coverts and hinder 

 cheeks silvery grey ; base of cheeks and throat dusky, the feathers 

 margined with silvery grey ; under surface of body bright yellow, 

 the inner aspect of the thighs dusky ; axillaries and under wing- 

 coverts dusky witb yellowish-white margins, the lower series white 

 slightly tinged with yellow ; quills blackish below, yellowish white 

 along the edge of the inner web ; "bill plumbeous ; legs pale fleshy ; 

 iris brown " (Jerclon). Total length 4 inches, culmen 0"4, wing 2"1, 

 tail 1-9, tarsus 0-85. 



Like many of the Liotriches, the present bird loses much of the 

 brightness of its plumage from fading. Some of the examples in 

 the Museum are nearly white below, and have lost the greater part 

 of the yellow shade on the wings as well. One specimen has a 

 streak of white running down the centre of the crown to the hind 

 neck; but as none of the others in the collection of the Museum ro 

 of Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay exhibit any peculiarity, I presume that 

 it is a case of individual variety. 



JIab. Eastern Himalayas. 



* The name chrysotis is inapplicable to tbis species; and I think it must 

 have been given by mistake for chrysceus, to which it was corrected later on by 

 Mr. Hodgson. I have adopted the latter name in consequence, following 

 Jerdon and others. 



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