fi46 tijibliid.t;. 



r. Ad. sk. Himalayas. India Museum, 



s. Ad. sk. Darjiliug. India Museuui. 



t, II. Ad. sk. Sikhini {^MandeUi). II. Si>ebohm, Eaq. [P.]. 



I'. Ad. sk. Bootan (I'ember/on). India Museum. 



w, .v. (S 2 ad. sk. Pon-ee, Kakhven hills, Ih: J. Auderson [C.]. 

 April 1868. ' 



17. CUTIA. T^p^ 



Cutia, Hodys. J. A. S.Beng. v. p. 772 (1830; C. nipaleusis. 



Heterornis, Hodys. J. A. S. Beny. x. p. 27 (,1841) C. nipaleusis. 



Eangi:. Himalayas, extending into the hills of North-easteru 

 Beugal as far south as Xaren-nee. 



1. Cutia nipalensis. 



Cutia nipalensis, Hodys. J. A. S. Bcny. v. p 774 (183(\) ; id. op. cit. 

 vi. p. 112 (18.37) ; BIyth, J. A. 6'. Beny. xi. p. 183 (1843) ; Gray, 

 Cat. Mamm. etc. KejJal pres. Hodys. p. 96 (1846); Blyth, Cat. B. 

 3Ius. As. Soc. p. 98 (1849) ; Gray, Gen. B. iii. A])]}, p. 15 (1849) ; 



P- 

 Sir. F. 1879, p. 104; Oates, B. Brit. Burm. i. p. 140 (1883). 



Heterornis nipalensis, Hodys. Icon, irted. in Brit. Mus.,Passeres, pi. 236 

 (nos. 254-6) ; id. J. A. tS. Beny. x. p. 27 (1841) ; Simdev. Av. Meth. 

 Tent. p. 41 (1872). 



Heterornis (Cutia) nipaleusis, Hodys. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 84 

 (1844). 



Adult male. General colour bright orange-chestnut from the hind 

 neck to the upper tail-coverts ; scapulars light ochraceous brown 

 washed with orange ; wing-coverts black, edged with glossy black ; 

 quills black, with a tiny white spot at the tips of the ])rimaries and 

 inner secondaries (often abraded and lost), all the quills externally 

 edf'cd with slaty grey, broader on the inner secondaries, which are 

 Hack at the tip ; tail-feathers black, the outer ones narrowly edged 

 with white at the tip, the centre ones orange for more than half 

 their length, but this colour concealed by the upper tail-coverts ; 

 crown of head and nape slaty blue, surrounded by a band of blue- 

 black, which occupies the lores, the feathers above and below the eye, 

 and the ear-coverts, extending round the hinder neck ; a spot of black 

 at the base of the lower mandible ; cheeks and under surface of body 

 pure white, tinged with yellowish buff on the flauks, lower abdomen, 

 and under tail-coverts, the latter very long and uniform ; sides of 

 breast and flanks barred with black, more broadly on the latter ; 

 under wing- and tail-coverts white, dusky blackish near the edge of 

 the greater series, forming a patch : quills blackish below, white 



