13. SIVA. 639 



of body and under tail-coverts j-ellow, the sides slightly washed 

 with olive ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, washed with 

 j-eUow ; edge of wing bright yellow ; quills dusky below, yellowish 

 white along the inner web ; " upper mandible dusky or blackish ; 

 lower mandible very horny ; feet dull grey, or greyish plumbeous ; 

 claws brown horny ; iris brownish red " {J. Sculhj). Total length 

 6'1 inches, culmen 0'6, wing 2'7, tail 2"75, tarsus 0-95. 



Birds from the Xorth-western Himalayas are decidedly paler than 

 Nepalese birds, and constitute a light race. 



Hah. Eastern Himalayas. 



a, b, c, d. Ad. sk. N.W. Himalayas. Capt. S. Pinwill [P.], 



e. Ad. sk. HUls near Mussoori E. W. Gates, Esq. [C.l. 



{A. O. Hume). 



f,g. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



(Types of species.) 



h, i. Ad. ; k. Juv. sk. Xepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



I, m, n. Ad. sk. Nepal ( Hodffsoti). India Museum. 



o. c? ad. sk. Sheopuri Ridge, Nepal Dr. J. Scully [P.]. 



valley, May 22, 1878. 



p. Ad. sk. Darjiling. Gould Collection. 



q. Ad. sk. Daijiling (Pearson). India Museum, 



r, s. Ad. sk. Sikhim {MandeUi). H. Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 



2. Siva castaneicauda. 



? Muscicapa variegata, Deletes. Mag. de Zool. 1840, pi. 19. 



Liothrix sb-igula (wee Hodqs.), Wald. hi Blyth B. Burm. p. 110 



(1875) ; Wardlaio Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 464. 

 Siva castanicauda, Hume, 8tr. F. 1877, p. 100; id. Sf Davison, Sir. 



F. 1878, vol. i. p. 371 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 104. 

 Siva castaneicauda, Oates, B. Brit. Burm. i. p. 14o (1883). 



Like S. strigula, but rather larger and the biU considerably 

 larger, and with the greater portion of both webs of the central 

 tail-feathers and of the inner webs of the next feathers a pure rich 

 chestnut ; " upper mandible dark brown, the lower fleshj- ; legs and 

 feet dingy glaucous green ; iris deep brown " ( TF. Davison). Total 

 length 6-6 inches, bill from gape 0"7o, wing 2*8, tail 2*9. tarsus 1*05. 

 {A. 0. Hume, I. e.) 



Hah. Replaces S. strigula of the Himalayas in Bootan and the 

 Burmese hiUs, ranging into Tenasserim. This is not so distinct a 

 species as some of the Burmese representatives of Himalayan forms ; 

 for the Bootan specimen in the British Museum is decidedly inter- 

 mediate, having the chestnut extended, as in S. castaneicauda, on 

 the centre tail-feathers but not on the next pair, while the rufous 

 is of the deep tint of the Himalayan bird. I have examined Capt. 

 Wardlaw Eamsay's specimens of *S'. castaneicauda from the Tonghoo 

 hills, and also a skin from Tenasserim in his collection ; they agree 

 with Mr. Hume's diagnosis, and are distinct enough from S. strigida. 



a. Ad. sk. Bootan {Peinberton). India Museum. 



