5. 8ITTA. 



359 



white ; chin and upper throat white ; all the rest of the underparts, 

 including the under tail-coverts, pale vinous brown ; " bill bright 

 cobalt-blue ; legs sienna-yellow ; orbital skin lemon-yellow ; iris 

 light straw-yeUow " (Jerdon). 



Female. As bright as the male in colour, but wanting the black 

 streak above the ear-coverts. Total length about 4-5 inches, 

 culmen 0-(j5, wing 3, tail 1-5, tarsus 0'67. 



Hab. Erom the Himalayas to Ceylon, throughout the Burmese 

 countries ; Java, Borneo, and the Philippines. 



a. c? ad. sk. 



6. [ $ ] ad. sk. 



e. [ 5 ] ad. sk. 



d, e. [ c? ] ad. sk. 

 /. [d]ad. sk. 



ff.ld] ad. sk. 

 fi. [Si ad. sk. 



i. J ad. sk. 



k. Ad. sk. 

 I. 2 ad. sk. 



w. 2 ad. sk, 

 n,o. [ $ J ad. sk. 



p. 2 ad. sk. 

 q. (S ad. sk. 



r, s. S 2 ad. sk. 

 If. [cJ] ad.sk. 

 u,v. (S 2 ad. sk. 

 zv. r c? ] ad. sk. 

 ,v. [ d" ] ad. sk. 

 y. [ ? J ad. sk. 

 s. Skeleton. 



MynaU, Travancore, Oct. 



1878. 

 N.W. Himalayas. 



Nepal. 



Nepal {Hodgson). 

 Nepal. 



Assam {McClelland). 

 Bassein, Pegu. 



West Pegu, 19° N. lat., 



AprU 1873. 

 Pegu, May 6. 

 Right bank of Tapeng, 



Feb. O; 1875. 

 Tenasserim, Dec. 20. 

 Java. 



Java. 



Java (Diard). 



West Java (-E*. C. Buxton). 



Labuan. 



Sarawak. 



Borneo. 



Philippines (Cumitiff). 



Palawan. 



Java. 



F. W. BourdiUon, Esq. 

 [C.]. 



Capt. Stackhouse Pin- 

 will [P.]. 



B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 

 (Tj'pe of *S'. corallina.) 



India Mviseum [P.]. 



B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 

 [P.]. 



India Museum, 



W. T. Blanford, Esq. 

 [P.]. 



E. W. Gates, Esq. [C,]. 



E. W. Gates, Esq. [0.]. 

 Dr. Anderson [P.]. 



E. W. Gates, Esq. [0.1. 



E. India Co. [P.]. 

 (Types of O. frontalis.) 



Gould Collection. 



F. D. Godmau and G. 

 Salvin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



F, Nicholson, Esq, [P.]. 

 Hugh Low, Esq. [C.l. 

 A.R.Wallace,Esq.[C.]. 

 Rajah Brooke [P.]. 

 Eytou Collection, 

 Prof. J. B. Steere [C.]. 

 Purchased. 



20. Sitta oenocMamys. 



Dendrophila cenochlamvs, Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. 2nd ser. Zool. 

 vol. i, p. 338, pi. liii. fig, 3 (1876), 



Adult female. Similar to S. frontalis, but everj-where more 

 brightly coloured ; sides of neck and hinder neck with the intersca- 

 pulary region of the same vinaceous shade as the breast, but parti- 

 cularly distinguished by a narrow white loral band and by a small 

 white spot at the base of the lower mandible. Total length 5 inches, 

 culmen 0*65, -ning 3, tail 1-7, tarsus 0"7. (Sharj^e.) 



Hab. Island of Guimaras, Philippine archipelago. 



