118 LANIIDiE. 



coverts tipped with reddish isabeUino instead of with white ; chin 

 and upper throat washed with reddish brown ; rest of tore neck 

 yellow. Wing 2-'i-2-A inches, tail 1-40-1-60. 



Younij birds resemble the female, but have no trace of the grey 

 colour on the occiput. Underparts white, tinged with yellow ; throat 

 pale cream-colour. 



Hah. Eastern Himalayas. 



B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



India Museum. (Types of 

 species.) 



India Mu.'^eum. 



B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P. 



B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P. 



B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P. 



H. Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 



E. W. Gates, Esq. 



E. W. Gates, Esq. 



India Museum. 



8. Ptererythrius xanthochloris. 



Pteruthius xanthochloris, ITor/r/s. J. A. S. Bene/, xvi. p. 448 (1847) ; 



Crratj, Gen. B. iii. -App. p. 13 ; id. Cat. Alamm. §-c. Nepal pres. 



Hodgs. p. 95, App. p. 15o; Gould, B. Asia, pt. viii. ; Graij, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 314, no. 4687. 

 Allotrius xanthochloris, B}}. C. A. i. p. 362 ; Hume, Str. F. vii. 



p. 456, 1879, p. 104. 

 Allotrius senobarbus, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 246 ( 2 ) (ticc Temm.). . 

 ? AUotrius xanthochloris, var. pallida, David, N. Arch. Mus. vii. Bull. 



p. 14. 

 ? Allotrius sopbise, Verr. N. Arch. Mus. viii. p. 64. 

 ? Allotrius palhdus, David S)- Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 215. 



Adult. General colour above dusky olive-green ; vrings with their 

 coverts and the tail blackish, externally washed with the colour of 

 the back ; tail and some of the secondaries with paler tips ; crown 

 of head slaty grey ; ear-coverts pale greyish olive ; throat and upper 

 breast dingy white tinged with isabelline ; rest of underparts dingy 

 white and strongly washed with pale greenish yellow ; inner edge 

 of quills, edge of wing, and under wiug-coverts whitish yellow. 

 Total length about 4 inches, culmen 0'45, wing 2-35-2-50, tail I'Uo- 

 2-05, tarsus 0-75-0-81. 



Yoiinr/ birds have the upper parts uniform pale olive-grey ; wings 

 and tail brown ; underparts dingy yellowish white. The female 

 seems to be intermediate in colour between the young and the adult 

 male. 



Hab. Himalayas. 

 a.[^] ad. St. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



(Type of species.) 

 5, c. [ c? ] ad. sk. Nepal (-ffof/^sow). India Museum. 



d.[(S] ad. sk. Nepal. B. II. Ilo.dgson, Esq. [P.]. 



e. [2 ] ad. sk, N.W. Himalayas. Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill IP.]. 



/. Juv. sk. N.W. Himalayas. Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill [P.]. 



ff. Ad. sk. Sikkim. Henry Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 



