628 TIMELIID.'E. 



a, b, c. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



d, e, f, g. Ad. sk. Nepal {Hodgson). India Museum. 



h. Ad. sk. Darjiling, Dec. 1874 Henry Seebobm, Esq. [P.J. 



(i. Manclelli). 



12. Alcippe swinhoii. 



Proparus swinhoii, /. Verr. Koiiv. Arch. Mus. vi. Bull. p. 38 (1870) ; 

 id. op. cit. vii. .p. 51 (1871), viii. pi. 2. fig. 2 (1872) ; David ^ 

 Oustalet, Ois. Chine, p. 287, pi. 35 (1877). 



Crown of head black, with a narrow median streak white at the 

 beginning, then passing into yellow and prolonged onto the nape ; 

 throat black, slightly ashy ; sides and back of the neck black, washed 

 with green or olive-green ; back and rump olive-green ; chest, belly, 

 and under tail-coverts of a fine orange-yellow ; auricular feathers 

 silky white ; rectrices brown, edged on the outer web with bright 

 orange for a third of their length ; wing-coverts black ; remiges 

 black, the first four edged exteriorly with yellow, the following four 

 with black, and the rest with bright orange ; secondary quills and 

 tertiaries black, bordered with white, the secondaries at the ends 

 only, the tertiaries from the bases and along the inner webs. The 

 plumage of the female does not differ from that of the male, except 

 that the colours are not quite so bright. Iris bluish brown ; bill 

 blue, with the point darker : nostrils white ; feet and claws whitish. 

 Total length 4-8 inches, tail 2-5, wing 2-5, tarsus 0-85, bill from 

 nostril 0-25. (David 4^ Oustalet.) 



Hah. Western China : mountains of Moupin and Western Sze- 

 chuen to the frontiers of Kokonoor, extending into Central Tsinling. 



7. FULVETTA. 



Type. 

 Fulvetta, David Si- Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 220 (18*'^) .... F. cinereiceps. 



Range. China. 



1. Fulvetta cinereiceps. 



Siva cinereiceps, J. Verr. N. Arch. Mtis. vi. Bidl. p. 37 (1870). 

 Proparus cinereiceps, J. Verr. op. cit. vii. Bull. p. 48 (1871). 

 Alcippe cinereiceps, J. Verr. op. cit. viii. Bull. pi. 5. fig. 3 (1872). 

 Fulvetta cinereiceps, David Sc Oust. Ois. Chiw, p. 220, pi. 73 

 (1877). 



Crown of heed and nape ashy grey, with silky reflections ; back 

 rufous ; rump and upper tail-coverts olive-yellow ; throat whitish 

 grey, with several indistinct longitudinal streaks of brown ; chest 

 and middle of the abdomen grey ; flanks and under tail-coverts 

 ochraceous ; parotid region silky grey ; tail-feathers brown, edged 

 with olive on the outer webs ; quills also brown, with ashy edgings 

 to the primaries, which are blackish on the secondaries, and rufous or 

 of an olive shade on the tertiaries. Iris light yeUow ; bill black ; 



