456 MUSCICAPID^. 



Niltava stropliiata, Gray, Ge». B. i. p. 2G4 ; id. Iland-l. B. i. p. 326, 



no. 4900. 

 Menetica stropliiata, Cab. J.f. 0. 1866, p. 393. 



Ailult male. Above olive-brown, the feathers of the rump long 

 and silky, -with a subterminal bar of white ; upper tail-coverts and 

 two centre tail-feathers blackish, the next feather on each side with 

 a -white bar on the outer web, all the other feathers white for the 

 basal half, blackish for the terminal half ; least wing-coverts slaty 

 grey, the remainder brown, edged with the same colour as the back ; 

 the greater coverts and secondaries rather broadly margined with 

 rusty brown, the edges narrower on the primaries ; a narrow frontal 

 line,' lores, and feathers round the eye black, succeeded by a tolerably 

 broad frontal line of white, extending backwards over the fore part 

 of the eye, the neighbouring part of the vertex being shaded with 

 grey ; sides of face, ear-coverts, and throat slaty black, succeeded by 

 a jugular patch of orange-chestnut; entire breast slaty grey, the 

 centre of the body and under tail-coverts whitish, the flanks oliva- 

 ceous brown ; thighs slaty grey ; under wing-coverts and axillarics 

 light ochraceous buff, those near the edge of the wing dark slate- 

 colour ; quills dark brown below, whity brown along the edge of 

 the inner web ; " bill black ; legs brown ; iris dark brown " (Jerdon). 

 Total length 5 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-9, tail 2-2, tarsus 0-75. 



Adult female. As figured by Mr. Hodgson, the female has the 

 sides of the face and throat grey and the gorget much paler orange- 

 rufous ; the breast is also much paler grey ; the white frontlet is 

 also nearly obsolete. Examples answering to this identification are 

 in the Museum, and specimens of the female bird in Colonel God- 

 win-Austen's collection confirm the above determination. 



Young. Eobin-like. Mottled all over with spots of ochraceous 

 buff, the feathers having dusky blackish margins, the head streaked 

 with ochraceous ; an indication of a white frontlet ; under surface 

 much as in adult female, but the breast mottled with ochraceous 

 spots to the feathers ; on the fore neck a slight appearance of orange- 

 rufous. 



06s. In Hodgson's own list of his drawings in the ' Zoological 

 Miscellany,' the numbers given for this species are 424, 430, 476, 

 714. The three former are represented, in plate 83, as arranged in 

 the typical set in the British Museum. No 714 is Antldpes moni- 

 liger (plate 85, Mus. Brit.). I believe that the actual specimens 

 from which the above drawings were taken are all in the Miiseum 

 collection. 



Hah. Himalaya Mountains, ranging into Eastern China, the 

 Khasia hills, and hiUs of Tenasserim. 



a. S 2 ^^- st- Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



b-f. cJ ad.; ff,h. $ ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.l. 



i,'k, I, m. JuY.sk. Nepal. _ B. II. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



n,o p. <S ad. sk. Miissoorie. Gapt. Stackbouse Pinwill [P.]. 



q',r. Ad. sk. Darjiling. Gapt. G. H. T. Marshall [P.]. 



s! Ad. sk. Naga bills. Colonel Godwin- Austen [P.J. 



