638 TIllELIID^. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Outer aspect- of qiiills bright orauge or vermi- 



lion ; crown orange. 



a'. Chest Qut-colour on tail very dark, and con- 

 fined to the basal portion of the inner web 

 of the two centre feathers singula, p. 638. 



b'. Chestnut-colour on tail much more extended, 

 and having the greater portion of both 

 web3 of central tail-feathers and inner 

 webs of next feathers pure rich chestnut . . castaneicauda, p. 639. 



b. Outer aspect of quills blue ; crown blue \ -r; fiil 



1 . Siva strigula. 



. Siva strigula, Hodgs. Ind. Rev. 1838, p. 89 ; id. Icon. ined. in Brit. 



Mus., Passeres, pi. 68. fig. 5 (no. 314) ; Gray, Cat. Mamm. etc. 



Nepal pres. Hodgs. p. 95 (1846) ; Gould, B. Asia, part xiv. (1862) ; 



Jerd. B. Ind. i'i. p. 252 (1863); Brooks, Str. F. 1875, p. 252; 



Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 104 ; SeulJy, t. c. p. 319. 

 Garrulax felicife, Less. Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 164. 

 Hemiparus strigula, Hodgs. J. A. S. Beng. x. p. 29 (1841). 

 Muscicapa (Siva) strigula, Deless. T^oy. Ind. ii. p. 24, pi. 8 (1843). 

 loropus strigula, Hudgs. J. A. S. Beny. xiii. p. 935 (1844). 

 loropus (Siva) strigula, Hodgs. in Grat/^s Zool. Misc. p. 84 (1844). 

 Leiothrix strigida, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 269 (1842) ; Blyth, Cat. B. 



Mus. A.^. Soc. p. 99 "(1849); Bp. Consp. i. p. 333 (1850); Horsf. 



8r Moore, Cat. B. F.I. Co. Mtis. i. p. 365 (1854); Gray, Hand-l. 



B. i. p. 313, no. 4674 (1869). 



Adult male. General colour above dull ashy olive ; the wiug- 

 coverts like the back, the greater series washed with olive-yellow ; 

 primary-coverts black, forming a wing-spot ; quills black, margined 

 with scarlet or deep orange, becoming yellow towards the end of 

 the feathers ; secondaries washed with olive at base and tipped 

 with white, the innermost black, with the outer web lavender-grey 

 tipped with black ; on some of the exterior of the so-called ter- 

 tiaries or inner secondaries the feather is entirely lavender-grey 

 tipped with white, before which there is a subterminal spot of black, 

 with a large black patch on the inner web; tail-feathers black, 

 tipped with yellowish white, the centre ones chestnut-brown towards 

 the basal portion of their inner web ; the other feathers margined 

 on both webs with yellow, tinged with scarlet on the outer one, the 

 external feather for the most part yellow, with a black patch along 

 the basal portion of the inner web, increasing on each feather 

 towards the centre of the tail, where black is the dominant colour ; 

 head orange-brown, crested ; lores dull white, mottled with black 

 bases ; ear-coverts and sides of face light ashy, varied with white 

 shaft-streaks and dusky cross bars ; over the ear-coverts an indi- 

 stinct streak of white tinged with yellow ; cheeks black, slightly 

 mottled with whitish tips : round the eye a whitish ring ; chin 

 yellow ; throat white, varied with black cross bars ; under surface 



