36 TIMELIID^. 



Ken ^^ ^^*'-' ^p^'^^f^- 



a. Bill red or yellow in skin. 

 a'. Head black. 



a". Throat and under surface of body gTey. 

 a'" . Ear-coverts hoary grey, like the throat ; 



cheeks with a broad black stripe along 



them; general colour very pale grey 



above and below psaroides, p. 36. 



h'". Ear-coverts dark grey, not much lighter 



than sides of head and neck ; hinder 



part of cheeks black ; body dark slaty 



grey, the head and mantle blackish ; 



no distinct cap concolor, p. 38, 



c'". Ear-coverts dark slate-colour, like the 



sides of the face ; no black stripe on 



cheeks ; general colour of both upper 



and under surface dark slaty grey, 



paler on the latter ganeesa, p. 39. 



b". Throat and imder surface of bodv glossy 

 black. 



d'". Quills black ; flanks black perniffer, p. 41. 



e'". Quills externally lavender-grey ; iianks 



washed with plumbeous grey nigerrimus, p. 41. 



b'. Head white leucocephalm, p. 41. 



b. BiU blackish or deep hom-brown ; ear-coverts 



chestnut-red ; head light grey ; throat grey, 



with white tips to the feathers amaurotis, p. 42. 



c. Bill horn-brown ; head blackish brown ; upper 



surface dull olive-greenish ; ear-coverts dingy 

 ash-grey ; throat white ; rest of under surface 

 pale j'ollow, streaked with brighter yellow . . virescens, p. 4-3. 



1. Hypsipetes psaroides. 



Hypsipetes psaroides, Vigors, P. Z. S. 18-jl,p. 43; froidd, Cent. B. Illmal. 

 31. pi. 10; M'C/ell. P. Z. S. 1839, p. 159; II<>d,/.^. Icon. ined. in Brit. 

 Mus.. Pa.'<seres, pis. 192, 194. fig. 2 ; id: in Grays Zool. Misc. p. 83 ; 

 Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xi. p. 180, xiv. p. 574 ; Gray, Cat. Mamm. Sfc. 

 Nepal prtis. Hodf/-'<. 1846, p. 87; id. Gen. B. i. p. 238; Hutfon, J. A. S. 

 Beng. xvii. part 1, p. 10 ; B/i/fJi, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 206 ; Bp. 

 Consp. i. p. 261 ; Ilorsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. i. p. 254 ; 

 Je7-d. B. Ind. ii. p. 77 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 272, no. 3980 ; 

 Hume, Nests 8f Eggs Ind. B. p. 278 ; Cock Sf Marsh. Str. F. 1873, 

 p. 355 ; Benders, i.^- Hume, Lahore to Yark. p. 198 ; Bbjth Sf Wald. 

 B. Burm. p. 132 ; Scully, Str. F. 1879, p. 293; Hume, Str. F. 1879, 

 p. 98. 



Adult male. General colour above light slaty grey, the least wing- 

 coverts like the back ; the median, greater, and primary-coverts more 

 ashy grey, externally light slaty like the back ; quills dusky brown, 

 externally light grey, this shade pervading the whole of the inner 

 secondaries ; tail-feathers blackish brown, edged with light slaty 

 grey towards their bases ; head and nape glossy greenish black, the 

 feathers lanceolate in shape and forming a conspicuous crest ; at 

 the base of the nostrils a spot of hoary grey ; ear-coverts hoary 



