38. CHELIDORHYNX. 279 



pointed feathers springing from the hinder part of the crown ; sides 

 of face and lores turquoise-blue ; cheeks and entire throat rich azure- 

 blue ; abdomen and under tail-covcrts greyish white, the breast and 

 sides of the body washed with pale lazuli ne blue, slightly more purple 

 on the former ; thighs washed with deeper blue ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries ashy, washed with bluish on the edges, the edge of the 

 wing deep blue ; " bill blue, tipped and margined with black ; interior 

 of gape yellow-green ; orbital ring light green ; legs grey-blue ; iris 

 dark brown " (A. Everett). Total length 5-7 inches, culmen 0-45, 

 wing 2-95, tail 2-S, tarsus 0-6. (2Ius. Marquis of Tweeddale.) 

 Hub. Island of Dinagat, Philippines. 



38. CHELIDORHYNX. 



Type. 

 Ohelidorhynx, Hodgs. P. Z. S. 1846, p. 32 C. hypoxantha 



Bill of Oielidorhynx hypoxantha. 



Range. Eastern Himalayas ; Khasia hills ; Tonghoo hills in 

 Burmah. 



1. Chelidorhynx hypoxantha. 



Rhipidura hvpoxantba, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii. p. 935 (1843) ; id. Cat. 



B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 205, no. 1239 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 259 ; id. 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 330, no. 5000. 

 Chelidorhynx hypoxantha, Hodgs. Drawings, no. 386 {Passei-es, no. 



218) ; App. lis in Brit. Mus. Coll.) ; id. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 84 ; 



Gray, Cat. Mamm. i^-c. Nepal Coll. Hodgs. p. 49; Bp. Consp. i. 



p. 322 ; Horsf. 8,- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. i. p. 147 ; Jerd. B. 



Ind. i. p. 455, no. 294; Godivin-Amten, J. A. S. B. xxxix. p. 100; 



Blyth <^- Wald. B. Burma, p. 132 ; Brooks, Str. F. 1875, p. 234 ; 



Hume, Nests and Eggs Ind. B. p. 204. 

 Chelidorhynx chrysoschistos, Hodgs. P. Z. S. 1845, p. 32. 



Adult. General colour above ashy olive, rather more yellowish on 

 the crown ; forehead and a broad eyebrow bright yellow ; a narrow 

 frontal line, lores, feathers round the eye, and ear-coverts black, the 

 last slightly washed with olive ; cheeks and entire under surface of 

 body bright yellow, including the thighs and under tail-coverts ; 

 mider wing-coverts whitish, washed with yellow ; wings brown, the 

 coverts edged with the ashy olive of the back, the quills also nar- 

 rowly margined with olive, almost obsolete on the primaries, the 

 inner secondaries with conspicuous white bases to tlie inner webs ; 

 tail-feathers dusky brown with pure white shafts, all but the centre 

 feathers tipped with white, which runs a little way up the tip of the 

 inner web ; " biU black ; legs reddish : iris pale brown " {Jerdon) ; 



