38 TIMELIID^. 



e, f. 2 ad. sk. N.W. Himalayas. Capt. Stackliouse Pin- 



■ ^iU[r.]. 



g, h, i. Ad. sk. Kumaon (Strachei/). India Museum. 



A-, /, in. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.l. 



n. Pidl. sk. Nepal. B. II. Hodgson, Esq. P.J. 



o. Ad. St. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.J. 



2). Ad. sk. Nepal (B. II. Hodr/son). India Museum. 



q. Ad. sk. Bai-jiling. India Museum. 



r. Juv. sk. Darjiling {Ecclea). F. DuCaue Godman and 



O. Salvin, Esqrs. [P.J. 

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



t) u. Ad. sk. Assam (McClelland). India Museum. 



{B. yaneesa, Horsf. & Moore, I. c. sp. b.) 



2. Hypsipetes concolor. 



Hypsipetes concolor, Blyth, J, A. S. B. xriii. p. 816 ; id. Cat. B, 



'Mus. As. Soc. p. 207 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 261 ; Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 272, no. .3989 ; Blt/th 4- Wald. B. Burm. p. 1-32 ; Hume, Str. 



F. 1^74, p. 276, 1878,'p. 295, 1879, p. 98. 

 Hypsipetes yunnauensis, A^iders. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 213 ; Swinh. 



B. Z. S. 1871, p. 369 ; David ^- Ousfal. Ois. Chine, p. 137 5 Anders, 



Zool. Exped. Ytoi-nan, p. 656, pi. 50. 

 Hypsipetes subuiger, Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 109. 



Adult male (Pousee, Kakhyen hills, March 12, 1868, Dr. J. 

 Anderson : type of H. ytinnanensis) . General colour above blackish, 

 becoming dark slaty grey on the lower back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts ; crown of head crested, black, the feathers lanceolate in 

 shape and having a greenish gloss ; otherwise the head is scarcely to 

 be distinguished from the blackish mantle ; wing-coverts like the 

 back : the greater coverts and quills blackish brown, with dark slaty 

 grey margins ; tail-feathers blackish, some of the feathers edged 

 with dark slate-colour ; lores, cheeks, and sides of neck black like 

 head, the ear-coverts rather browner ; above the hinder part of the 

 6} e an ill-defined spot of dark slaty grey ; under surface of body 

 dark slate-colour, blackish on the chest, where the feathers are 

 black, with edgings of dusky grey ; lower abdomen slightly mixed 

 ■with white, some of the feathers being edged with this colour ; imder 

 tail-coverts slaty blackish, margined with white ; under wing-coverts 

 and axiUaries dark slate-colour, the former rather browner ; quills 

 brown below, inclining to ashy brown along the edge of the inner 

 ■web; "legs, feet, and biU vaiied from bright to deep coral-red; 

 iris dull crimson-lake " (Davison) ; " bill and legs lake-red ; iris 

 hair-brown or brilliant brown "( TFo re? ?«;/' Hamsay, MS.). Total 

 length 10 inches, ctiknen l^Oo, wing 4-95, tail 4-y, tarsus 0^7. (Mus. 

 Jnd. Ccdcutta.) 



The above description has been drawn up from the type of H. i/nn- 

 nanensib\ kindly lent by Dr. Anderson ; however, I have examined, 

 besides, the large series belonging to Lieut. Wardlaw Eamsay, who 

 collected the birds himself in Burmah. Dr. Anderson's bird ajipears 

 somewhat more ashy brown than the majority of Lieut, llamsay's 

 skins ; but this is, I think, due to the fading away of the grey 



