29. TAKSIGER, 259 



coverts like the back ; quills dark browu, edged externally with the 

 same colour as the back ; tail brown, washed externally with rufous- 

 brown ; lores and sides of face ochraceous buff, as also a ring of 

 feathers round the eye, the ear-coverts washed with olive ; cheeks 

 and under surface of body pale saffron-yellow, deeper on the flanks ; 

 centre of abdomen, sides of body, under wing- and tail-coverts white. 

 Total length 3-7 inches, culmen 0*4, -wing 1*8, tail 1"35, tarsus 0"65. 

 Hah. Eastern Himalayas. 



a, b. 2 ^<i- sk. Darjiling. J. Fotheringham, Esq. [C.]. 



c. (S ad. sk. Sikkim, Nov. 1877. L. MandeUi, Esq. [P.]. 



d,e. (S 2 ad- sk. Nepal. B. II. Hodgson, Esq. [C.]. 



5. Tarsiger indicus. 



Le Eossignol de muraille des Indes, Sonn. Voy. Ind. ii. p. 208*. 

 Sylvia indica, Vieill. N. Dkt. d'Hist. Kat. xi. p. 267 {ex Sonn.) ; Less, 



Traite, p. 416. 

 Nemura ffavo-oUvacea, Sodgs, ; id. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 83 : id. 



P. Z. S. 1845, p. 27. 

 Tarsiger superciliaris, Sodgs. Icon, ined., Passeres, App. pi. 57, no. 924; 



Gray, Cat. Mamm. ^-c. Nepal Coll. Hodgs. p. Z^ ; Moore, P. Z. S. 



1854, p. 76 ; ITursf. ^ Moore, Cat. B. 3Ius. E.I. Co. i. p. 311 ; 



Switih. P. Z. S. 18/1, p. 3.59. 

 lanthia flavo-olivacea, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 133. 

 Ervtbaca flavo-olivacea, Grai/, Cat. Mamm. ijr. Nepal Coll. Hodgs. 



p. 35 ; Jard. Contr. Orn. 1849, p. 88, pi. 16. fig. 1 ; Blgth, Cat. B. 



Mas. A. S. B. p. 171. 

 lantliia superciliaris, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 148. 

 Nemiu-a superciliaris, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 222, no. 3190. 



Adult )Ha?e(type of T. superciliaris). General colour above dark 

 slaty blue, the long feathers on the side of the rump tipped ■with yel- 

 lowish buff; wing-coverts yellowish bro^vn, the innermost of all the 

 series slaty blue like the back ; greater coverts and quills blackish 

 brown, edged with yellowish brown, the inner secondaries with slaty 

 blue ; tail dark slaty blue, blackish on the inner web : side of crown 

 white, forming a very broad white eyebrow, extending from the base 

 of the bill to the sides of the nape ; feathers in front of and above the 

 eye as well as the sides of face black, the latter slightly washed 

 with slaty grey ; under surface of body orange-rufous, whiter on 

 the middle of the abdomen ; a faint indication of a malar line of 

 white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries like the breast ; quills 

 brown below, fulvescent along the edge of the inner web ; " beak 

 brownish ; feet reddish grey, the nails grey ; iris brown " (Jerdon). 

 Total length 5 inches, culmen O'o, wing 3-1, tail 2-o, tarsus 1*1. 



The type being in bad condition, the measurements are taken 

 from a Darjiling specimen. 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 



* Messrs. David and Oustalet state that they have examined one of Sonnerat's 

 Bpecimens still existing in the Paris Museum, and that they find it identical 

 with another given them by Dr. Jerdon as Tarsiger superciliaris. 



