666 TIMELIID^. 



b, c, d. Ad. ; Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



e. Pull. sk. (Types of A. nijMlensis 



and A. cacharensis.) 



f, g, h. Ad. sk. Nepal (Hodgson). India Museum. 



4. Ad. sk. Native Sikhim(ikaH- A. 0. Hume, Esq. 



delli). 



k. Ad. sk. Bootan (Pemberton). India Museum. 



2. EPHTHIANUEA. 



Type. 

 Ephthianura, Gould, P. Z. S. 18-37, p. 148 E. albifrons. 



Range. Confined to Australia. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Throat white. 



a'. Forehead white; hinder crown black; below 

 white, with a broad band of black across the 

 chest aibifrons, p. 666. 



b'. Forehead and crown crimson, as also entire 



breast tricolor, p. 667. 



b. Throat black; crown and breast orange or golden 



yellow mirifrons, p. 668. 



c. Throat and under surface of body bright yellow, with 



a band of black across the chest crocea, p. 669. 



1. Ephthianura albifrons. 



Acanthiza albifrons, Jard. ^ Selby, III. Orn. ii. pi. 56. figs. 1 and 2 



(c. 1836). 

 Ephthianura albifrons, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 148 ; Gray, Gen. B. 



i. p. 205 (1847) ; Goidd, B. Auslr. fol. ili. pi. 64 (1848) ; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 298 (1850) ; Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 32 (18,50) ; 



Reichenb. Vog. Neuholl. p. 88 (1850) ; Ramsay, Ibis, 1863, p. 178 ; 



Gould, Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 377 (1865) ; von Miill. P. Z. S. 



1869, p. 279; Gray, Hand-l. B.i.^.2A8, no. 3607 {1869); Ramsay, 



Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 186 (1878). 

 Cynura torquata, Brehm, teste Cab. 

 Fiuvicola leucocephala, Less., teste Bp. 



Adult male. General colour above light grey, slightly mottled 

 with brown bases to the feathers of the mantle ; rump clear uniform 

 grey, with a tuft of white-tipped plumes on each side ; wings en- 

 tirely brown, some of the lesser coverts edged with grey ; upper 

 tail-coverts black ; tail-feathers dark brown, all but the centre 

 feather with a large spot of white at the end of the inner web, in- 

 creasing in extent towards the outermost ; crown of head, occiput, 

 and nape black, which colour extends behind the ear-coverts ; lores, 

 forehead, eyebrow, and sides of the crown, the feathers round the 

 eye, ear-coverts, cheeks, and throat white, separated from the rest 

 of the under surface, which is also pure white, by a broad black 

 collar across the fore neck and chest : the lateral feathers of this 



