06. SIPHIA. 457 



17. Siphia ruficauda. 



Mu8cicapa ruficauda, Swains. Nat. Libr,, Ftyc. p. 1^51 ; Gray, Gen. B. 



i. p. 263. 

 Museicapa rubecula, Jenl. Madi: Journ. xiii. p. 171 (riec Lath., nee 



Swains.). 

 Butalis ruficauda, Bbjth, J. A. S. B. x\i. p. 120. 

 Cyornis aequalicauda, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xx. p. 523. 

 Cyornis ruficauda, Jerdon, B. Ind. i. p, 468 ; Gudw.- Austen, J. A. S. 



B. 1870, p. 268 ; Brooks, Str. F. 1875, p. 235 ; Fairh. Str. F. 1876, 



p. 257 ; Hume, t. c. p. 390 ; Butler, Str. F. 1877, p. 228 ; Brooks, 



t. c. p. 470. 

 Niltava ruficauda, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 325, no. 4884. 



Adult female. General colour above ashy brown, shading off' -into 

 buff on the rump, and thence into rufous on the upper tail-coverts ; 

 tail rufous, the feathers ashy brown on the outer web, the two 

 centre feathers entirely of the latter colour ; wing-coverts ashy 

 brown, the quills dusky, externally ashy brown like the back ; the 

 greater coverts with narrow pale tips ; lores and a conspicuous ring 

 of feathers round the eye whitish ; ear-coverts ashy brown, with 

 narrow whitish shaft-lines ; cheeks and under surface of body dull 

 whitish, ashy on the breast and flanks ; thighs ashy ; under wing- 

 and tail-coverts fulvescent ; quills ashy brown below, fulvous along 

 the inner web ; " bill dusky ; iris deep brown " (Jerdon). Total 

 length 4-5 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 3-1, tail 245, tarsus 0-65. 



Young. Similar to the adult, but more olivaceous, and mottled 

 with pale fulvous spots, margined with blackish, the greater coverts 

 externally pale orange-buff ; below buffy white, the breast mottled 

 with dusky edges to the feathers. 



Hab. Indian peninsula. 



Ad. sk. Nellore. Dr. Jerdon [P.]. 



$ ad. sk. Himalayas. Dr. Stoliczka [P. 



Juv. sk. Himalayas. Dr. Stoliczka [P 



18. Siphia olivacea.* 



Cyornis olivacea, Hume. Str. F. 1877, p. 338 ; id. Sf Daxiison, Str. F. 

 1878, p. 229. 



• The following species is unknown to me. As with the allied olive-backed 

 birds of the genus Siphia, I believe it probnble that it will prove to be the female 

 or young of some bright -coloured male. It is very probably not a Cyornis at 

 all, and may turn out to be Ehinomyias pectoralis. 



Siphia albo-olivacba. 



Cyornis albo-olivacea, Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 488. 



Entire bill black ; legs and feet white ; claws very pale horny ; entire lores 

 white, or greyish white ; forehead, occiput, crown, cheeks, ear-coverts, entire 

 mantle, a slightly rufescent olive-brown, slightly more riifesceut on the rump ; 

 tail rufous-brown, margined with dull pale ferruginous on the outer webs; 

 wings rather pale hair-brown ; all the feathers but the primaries margined 

 broadly on the outer webs with the colour of the back, slightly more rufescent 

 on the secondaries and tertiaries, which are almost entirely of this colour ; chin, 



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