(542 ruiT.JAiDJE. 



margins of the bastard-wing feathers : quills blackish, externally 

 olive-yellow ; secondaries blackish, -with a terminal fringe of white, 

 the outer ones olire-yellow for two thirds of the outer web, velvety 

 black for the remaining third, the innermost dusky chestnut, with a 

 slight wash of olive-yellow and a black sirbterminal bar ; upper tail- 

 coverts and tail-feathers olive-yellow, tijiped with white, before which 

 is a broad subtermiual bar of black, which colour also extends a 

 good way up the outer web of the external feathers ; crown of head 

 and nape dusky ashy, with pale shaft-streaks to all the feathers, 

 more distinct on the forehead, which is tinged with olive-yellow : 

 lores and a narrow eyebrow black ; in front of and below the eye a 

 large spot of orange-yellow ; ear-coverts dull olive, the feathers 

 above the latter and the sides of the neck olive-yellow, streaked 

 with brighter yellow shaft-lines ; cheeks and throat dusky slate- 

 colour ; remainder of under surface of body olive-yellow, brighter in 

 the centre of the breast and abdomen ; the sides of the body, flanks, 

 and thighs slaty grey, the latter washed with olive-yellow ; under 

 tail-coverts bright golden yellow, with black centres to the feathers ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries slaty grey, edge of wing yellow. 

 Total length 7"2 inches, culmen 0*75, wing 2*7, tail 3"25, tarsus 

 1-15. {Mus. J. B. Steere.) 

 Huh. Formosa. 



15. MESIA. Type. 



Mesia, Hodffsoji, Ind. liev. ii. p. 88 (18.38) M. argentnuris. 



Philocalyx, Hodt/son, J. A. S. Beny. x. p. 29 (1841) . . M. arg-entauris. 

 Fringilloparus, Hodys. J. A. S. Beyjy. xiii. p. 935 (1844) M. argentauris. 



Bange. Himalayas and the hills of Eurmah and Tenasserim ; Su- 

 matra. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Breast bright orange aryentauris, p. 642. 



b. Breast fiery orange washed with crimson laiirince, p. 64.3. 



1. Mesia argentauris. 



Mesia argentauris, i/of/iys'. Iml. Rev.n.^. S^ (1838); id. Icon. ined. 



in Brit. Mus., Passcres, pi. 68. tig. 4 (no. 307) ; Gray, Cat. Ma?nm. 



etc. Nepal p-es. Hodyson, p. 94 (1846) ; Hume, Nests 4" Eyys Ind. 



B. p. 392 (1873); id. Sir. F. 1879, p. 104; Scully, t. c. p. 318; 



Oates, B. Brit. Burm. i. p. 143 (1883). 

 Ph localyx argentauris. Hodys. J. A. S. Beny. x. p. 29(1841). 

 Fringilloparus argentauris, Hodys. J. A. S. Beny. xiii. p. 935 (1844) ; 



id. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 84 (1844). 

 Leinthrix aruentauris, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 269 (1846) ; Bh/th, Cat. 



Ji. :\h,s. As. Sue. p. 99 (1849) ; Bp. Camp. i. p. 332 (1850) ; Horsf. 



\ Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 365 (1854) ; Gould, B. Asia, 



partiii. : Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 251 (1863); Gray, Hand-l. B.\. 



