29. TARSIGEE. . 261 



coverts olive-brown, vrith whitish shaft-streaks ; cheeks and under 

 surface of body deep ochraceous yellow, the bottom of the abdomen 

 whitish. Total length 5 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 2-6, tail 2, 

 tarsus 1-2. 



Hah. Himalaya Mountains, ranging eastwards into Moupin in 

 "Western China. 



a,b. S 2 ad. sk. N.W. Huna- Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill 



layas. [P.]. 



e, d,€. S; f, 0, h. 5 ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



7. Tarsiger stellatus. 



Le Gobe-mouche etoile, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. iv. p. 28, pi. 157 ; 



Sumlev. Cn't. om Levatll. p. 42. 

 Muscicapa stellata, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxi. p. 468 ; Gray, 



Gen. B. i. p. 163 ; Lmjard, B. S. Afr. p. 148. 

 Pogonoeicbla stellata, Cab. Arch.f. Naturg. 1847, p. 314; Bp. Cotisp. 



i. p. 300 ; Grill, Zool. Anteckn. p. 27 ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 43, 



no. 401 ; Barratt, Ibis, 1876, p. 203 ; Ap-es, t. c. p. 428 ; Sharpe, 



ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 342. 

 Tarsiger cucullatus, Bhjth, Ibis, 1867, p. 16 (e,r Gotdd, 3IS.). 

 Nemiira stellata. Gray, Iland-l. B. i. p. 223, no. 3191. 



Adult male. Above yellowish olive, the upper tail-coverts bright 

 yellow; least wing-coverts olive like the back, the rest of the 

 coverts and quills blackish, externally blue-grey, inclining to silvery 

 grey on the outermost greater coverts ; tail yeUow, with a broad 

 black band at the tip, the outer feather externally blackish for the 

 terminal half of the outer wob, the two centre tail-feathers entirely 

 black ; head dull blue, Lacluding the sides of head and entire throat ; 

 lores and feathers round the eye more dusky ; above the eye a large 

 spot of silvery white, a spot of which is also apparent on the lower 

 throat ; rest of under surface of body orange-yeUow, including the 

 imdcr wing- and tail-coverts ; thighs and outermost of the under 

 wing-coverts light grey with whitish margins ; " bill black ; tarsi 

 and feet dusky pale ; iris dusky " ( T. Ay res). Total length 6*2 inches, 

 culmen 0"5, wing 4-55, tail 2"75, tarsus I'l. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. 



Youny birds are similar to the adult, but are duller and more 

 olive-green above, the head being of the same colour as the back ; 

 aU the grey on the wing overshaded with olive; under siuface of 

 body olive-yellow, greener on the throat ; sides of face olive, the 

 ear-coverts with yellow shaft-Hues ; lores dusky yellow ; round the 

 eye a ring of yeUow feathers. 



Hah. South Africa. 



a, b. vix ad. sk. South Africa. J. Gould, Esq. 



c, d. Ad. sk. Peri Bush, near King- II. Trevelyan, Esq. [P.]. 



wiUiamstown. 

 e. Juv. sk. Near East London (F. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



A. Barratt). 

 f,g. S ad. sk. Eland's Post, June 10, R. B. SLarpe, Esq. 



1^10 (J'.C.Atmore). 



