o4r SXUKNlDJi;. 



/•'. (S ad. sk. Kanee, Iloungtliraw River, Hume Coll. 



Mar.7,187!)( W.Davkon). 

 s'. c? ad. sk. Assoon, March 4, 1877 ( IF. Hume Coll. 



Darisuii). 

 f. (S ad. sk. Pabvouk, March 13, 1874 Hume Coll. 



( tV. Davison). 

 m'. Ad. sk. Meetau, Fob. 5, 1877 (TT". llume Coll. 



Davison), 

 v'-d". J 5 ad. sk. Amherst, Jan., March 1877 llume Coll. 



{W. Davison). 



10. Poliopsar blythii. 



Pastor malabaricus {nee Gm.), Jerd. Madr. Journ. xi. p. L'2 (1840), 

 Sturuia dominicaua, Blyth, J. A. S. Bewj. xiii. p. 363 (1814). 

 Pastor blythii, Jerd. Madr. Journ. xiii. p. 138 (1844) ; id. 111. Ind. 



Orn. pi. 22 (1847). 

 SturnmUvthn, Bli/th, J. A. S. Benr/. xvi. p. 470 (1847); id. Cat. 



B. Mm'. As. Soc. p. 110 (1849) ; Hume, Sir. F. ix. p. 228 ; Butler, 



t. c. p. 237 ; W. Davison, Str. F. 1883, p. 401 ; Taylor, Str. F. 



1887, p. 462. 

 Temenuchus blvthii, Horsf. S,- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. ii. 



p. 531 (185(3)"; Graj/, Hund-l. B. ii. p. 20, no. 6297 (1870). 

 Poliopsar blythii, Sharpe, Ibis, 1888, p. 476. 



Adult male. General colour above delicate ashy grey ; wing- 

 coverts like the back, the greater coverts paler and more hoary 

 grey externally ; bastard-vring, primary-coverts, and quills black, 

 externally glossed with steel-greeu, the primaries tipped with hoary 

 grey, the secondaries externally hoary grey, and the innermost ones 

 almost entirely of the latter colour ; centre tail-feathers hoary grey, 

 the next ones blackish, externally hoary grey, chestnut at the ends, 

 the latter colour increasing gradually towaids the outer feathers ; 

 crown of head, occiput, and luipe white, with a pinkish tinge, the 

 feathers long and lanceolate, those of the hind neck also long and 

 having white shafts ; lores, sides of face, ear-coverts, checks, throat, 

 and breast white ; lower breast, abdomen, sides of body, flanks, and 

 under tail-coverts cinnamon-rufous; thighs ashy; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries ashy whitish ; quills below dusky: " bill blue 

 at base, green in the centre, yellow at the tip ; legs and feet yellow ; 

 iris greyish wliite " {E. A. Butler). Total length 8-2 inches, culmen 

 0-75, wing 4-1, tail 2-45, tarsus 0-9. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but everywhere paler and 

 duller in colour, the upper surface somewhat washed with rusty, 

 especially on the rump and upjier tail-covcrts ; the head more ashy 

 tind the white of the sides of the face and throat greyish white, the 

 rufous feathers somewhat edged with ashy whitish : " bill yellow, 

 blue at base, green in centre, brownish yellow on the culmen ; legs 

 and feet olive-yellow; iris grey" (E. A. Butle7-). Total length 

 7-5 inches, culmen (l-8, wing 3-75, tail 2-3, tarsus 0-9. 



Young females are browner than the adults, and have the head 

 ashy brown ; the under surface is ashy whitish with scarcely any 



