636 TIMELIID^. 



12. HERPOENIS. 



Type. 

 Erpornis, Hodgs. J. A. S. Beng. xiii. p. 379 (1844) . . H. xantholeuca. 

 Herpornis, Agassiz, No7nencl. Aves, Add. p. 10 (1846). 



Range. Eastern Himalayas, throughout the Burmese countriea 

 and the Malayan peninsula to Borneo. Formosa, Hainan. 



1. Herpornis xantholeuca. 



lora zantboleuca, Hodgs. Icon. ined. in Brit. Miis., Passeres, pi. 177. 



figs. 1, 2 (no. 7G0). 

 Erpornis xantholeuca, Hodgs. J. A. S. Beng. xiii. p. 380 (1844) ; 



Blyth, Cat. B. Mm. As. Soc. p. 101 (1849) ; Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. 



B. E.I. Co. 3Ius. i. p. 232 (1854) ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 264 (1863) ; 



Hume, Str. F. 1874, p. 479, 1875, p. 142. 

 Erpornis xanthochlora, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 83 (1844) ; 



id. P. Z. S. 1845, p. 23 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 259 (1850) ; Hume Sf 



Oates, Str. F. 1875, p. 142. 

 Timalia xanthochlora, Gray, Cat. Mamm. etc. Nepal pres. Hodgs. 

 <,"/ p. 8.? (1846) ; id. Ge7i. B. iii. Ajtp. p. 10 (1849) ; id. Hand-l. B. i. 

 / p. 315, no. 4713 (1869). 



Herpornis xantholeuca, Blyth 8,- Wald. B. Burm. p, 110 (1875) ; 



Godicin-Aust. J. A. S. Beng. xlv. p. 83 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1876, p. 41 ; 



Anderson, Zool. Exp. Yumian,Aves,^.^(il (1878); Hume ii,- Davi- 

 son, Str. F. 1878, vol. i. p. 374 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, pp. 104, 157 ; 



Bingham, Str. F. 1880, p. 190 ; Oates, B. Brit. Burm. i. p. 151 



(1883). 



Adult. General colour above ycUowish olive, the head much 

 crested and coloured like the back ; -wing-coverts like the back ; 

 bastard--wing feathers ashy brown, externally edged with yellowish 

 olive ; quills dusky brown, externally edged with yellowish olive, 

 but brighter than the back, the innermost secondaries like the back ; 

 tail yellowish olive, a little brighter yellow than the back ; lores 

 ashy white ; ear-coverts light ashy brown ; cheeks and under 

 surface of body ashy white, the lower flanks, vent, and under tail- 

 coverts vellowish olive ; thighs externally yellowish, ashy white on 

 their inner aspect ; axillaries ashy white washed with yellow ; 

 under wing-coverts yellow ; quills dusky brown below, yellow 

 along the edge of the inner web ; " upper mandible fleshy horn- 

 colour, the edges and the whole lower mandible light flesh-colour ; 

 gape yellow ; mouth yellow ; eyelids plumbeous ; legs and feet 

 pinkish flesh-colour ; iris brown" {Oates). Total length 4-8 inches, 

 culmen 0-55, wing 2-5, tail 1-85, tarsus O'Go. 



Young. Similarly coloured to the adult, but rather more dingy 

 yellowish-olive above, the under surface a little whiter. 



The sexes appear to bo alike in plumage. 



Hab. Eastern Himalayas, throughout the hills of Xorth-eastern 

 Bengal, the Burmese countries to Tenasserim, and down the Malayan 

 peninsula. 



