260 MrscicAPiD^. 



ochraceous brown, the lesser and median wing-coyerts like the back ; 

 greater coverts and quills dark brown, externally edged with reddish 

 brown, with pale yellowish tips to the greater coverts ; tail olive- 

 brown, dusky brown on the inner webs ; lores yellowish, extending 

 backwards and forming a whitish eyebrow, not so distinct as in the 

 male ; sides of face olive-brown, with fulvous shaft-lines ; under 

 surface of body deep ochraceous brown, the chin whitish : under 

 Aving-coverts and axillaries rather more yellowish ; quills dull brown 

 below, fulvescent along the edge of the inner web. Total length 

 5-3 inches, culmeu 0-45, wing 2-85, tail 2-4, tarsus 1-1. 



Hah. Eastern Himalayas, extending into the mountains of Western 

 Szechuen. 



a. S ad.; h, c, d. $ ad. sk. Nepal. B. 11. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



e. (S ad. sk. Darjiling. J. Fotheringham, Esq. [C.]. 



6. Tarsiger chrysoeus. 

 Tarsiger chrysceus, Hodgs. Icon, ined., Passercs, pi. 80, uos. 408 & 409 ; 



id. in. Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 83 ; id. P. Z. S. 1845, p. 28 ; Grat/, 



Cat. Mamm. ^-c. Nepal Coll. Hodc/s. p. 35 ; Blyth, Cat. B. 3Ius. A. 



S. B. p. 169 ; Jard. Contr. Oni. 1850, p. 119, pi. 13; Bp. Comp. i. 



p. 300 ; Horsf. S,- Moore, Cat. B. 3Ius. E.I. Co. ii. p. 310 ; Jerd. B. 



Ind. ii. p. 149 ; SicinJi. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 359 ; ILiwe, Nests Sf Eygs 



Ltd. B. p. 325 ; David l^ Oustalet, Ois. Chine, p. 238, pi. 29. 

 Sericornis (?) clirvsea, Bli/th, J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 549. 

 Nemura chryscEa,' Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 181 ; id. Hand-l. B. i. p. 222, 



no. 3189. 



Adult male. General colour above orange-yellow, the scapulars 

 and feathers of the lower back with olive-brown tips ; crown of 

 head, hind neck, and mantle olive-brown, inclining to darker and 

 more rufous-olive on the head, the feathers of the lower back with 

 broad black tips ; lesser and median wing-coverts black, with mesial 

 streaks of golden yeUow near the tips of the feathers ; greater series 

 and qiiills black, externally edged with orange-brown, the inner- 

 most greater coverts entirely orange-yellow ; two centre tail-feathers 

 black, orange-yellow only at base, all the others orange-yellow with 

 a broad black band at the tip ; a narrow frontal line, lores, feathers 

 round the eye, and ear-coverts black ; a narrow superciliary streak 

 over the eye orange-yellow ; entire under surface of body orange- 

 yellow, some of the feathers on the sides of the breast edged with 

 black ; thighs olive on the outer margin ; under wing-coverts yellow ; 

 quills brown, yellowish buff along the inner webs; '•bill dusky 

 above, yellowish fleshy beneath ; ri'is dark brown " (Jcrdon). Total 

 length 5 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 2-8, tail 2-25, tarsus 1-3. 



Adult female. General colour above olive, lighter and inclining 

 to olive-yellow on the rump ; least wing-coverts like the back ; 

 remainder of the wing-coverts and quilLs brown, edged with olive ; 

 centre tail-feathers olive-brown, the rest of the tail dull yellow with 

 an olive-brown band at the tips of the feathers ; lores and eyebrow 

 yclloAvish olive ; round the eye a ring of yellowish feathers ; car- 



