358 CEETHIIDa;. 



coverts and the quills black, the lower and the secondary quills 

 margined and tipped with white or pale blue, primaries with narrow 

 blue edgings ; tail-feathers black, externally edged with blue, espe- 

 cially the central pair, the outer pairs with white ; under wing- 

 coverts, edge of wing, and quills below black, with a white patch 

 near the edge ; all the rest of the underparts fulvous ochraceous, 

 darker on the flanks, passing into whitish on the throat and sides 

 of head ; bill dark horn-colour ; " legs greenish horny, with yellow 

 soles ; iris dark brown " (Jerdon). Total length 6-7 inches, culmen 

 0-85, wing 3-95, tail 2-3, tarsus 0-85. 



Hah. Only found in the higher mountainous regions of Sikhim. 



a. Ad. sk. Darjiling. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



I. (S ad. sk. Sikhim, Nov. 1870. H. Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 



19. Sitta frontalis. 



Orthorhynchus frontalis, Sicains. Zool. III. Ist ser. pi. 2 (1820-21) 

 -MotaciUa frontalis, Hajl. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 313 (1822). 

 Sitta velata, Temvi. PL Col. 72 (1823) ; Less. Traite (POm. p. 316, 

 Sitta frontalis, Horsf. Tr. L. S. xiii. p. 162 (1821) ; Vig. Mem. Ra 

 p. 670; TicMl, J. A. S. Beng. ii. p. 579 ; McClell. P. Z. S. 1839, 

 p. 165 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 148 ; id. Cat. Hodgs. Coll. B. Mus. 

 p. 62 ; Oates, B. Brit. Burm. p. 134. 

 Sitta corallina, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. v. p. 779 (1836) ; id. Gi-axfs Zool. 



Misc. p. 82; Grag, Hand-l. B. i. p. 182, no. 2499. 

 Dendrophila frontaUs, Swains. Class. B. ii. p. 318 (1837) ; Jerd. 

 Madr. Joimi. xi. p. 218; Blgtli, J. As. Soc. Beng. xvi. p. 580 

 id. Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 190; Mason, Burmah, p. 280 

 Bp. C. A. i. p. 220 ; Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 93 ; Eeichenb. Handh.^ 

 Scans, p. 154, pi. 514. tigs. 3571-72 ; Kelaart, Prodro7mis Cat. 

 p. 120 ; Laijard, Ann. Sf Mag. N. H. xii. p. 176; Horsf. ^- Moore 

 Cat. B. M. E.I. Co. ii. p. 722 ; Bernstein, J. f. O. 1861, p. 122 \ 

 Jerdon, B. Ind. i. p. 388 ; v. Pelzeln, Novar. Meise, Vog. pp. 59, 161 

 Beavan, Ibis, 1869, p. 425 ; Jei-don, Ibis, 1872, p. 21 ; Holdsivorth. 

 P. Z. S. 1872, p. 435 ; Hume, Nests ^- Eggs, i. p. 161 ; Salvad. Ucc. 

 Born. p. 161 ; Legqe, Ibis, 1874, p. 16 ; Ball, Str. F. 1874, p. 397 

 Bourdillon, Str. F. 1876, p. 393 ; Fairbank, Str. F. 1877, p. 399 

 Hime Sj- Damson, Str. F. 1878, p. 201 ; Legge, Birds of Ceylon, 

 p. 560 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 459. 

 Dendrophila corallina, Reichenb. Handb., Scans, p. 154 (1851) ; Hume, 

 Str. F. 1874, p. 473, 1875, p. 89 ; Sharjie, Str. F. 1876, p. 436 ; 

 Anderson, Zool. E.vped. Yunnan, p. 633. 



Adult male. Forehead, prseocular and loral regions, and a broad 

 streak over the ear-covcrts velvet-black : all the rest of the upper 

 parts of a beautiful blue colour with a purple shade ; the purple 

 more pronounced on the sides of the neck and on the ear-coverts ; 

 quills and primary-coverts deep black, broadly edged vrith blue ; 

 contral pai of tail-feathers almost like the back ; the other pairs 

 black, with large bluish tips and with broad outer edges of the 

 same colour ; in old males some of the outer tail-feathers have 

 white or wliitish subterminal patches to the inner web ; edge of 

 wing and under wing-coverts deep black ; inner edge of quiUs 



