10. ACRIDOTTIERES. 87 



Gracula cristatella, Stindev. Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist, xviii. p. 304 



(1846). 

 Pastor mahrattensis {nee Sijkes), Gray, Cat. Mamni. etc. Nepal pres. 



Iludffs. p. 103 (184C)). 

 Ileterornis fusca, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. .335 (1847). 

 Pastor cristatellus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 419 (1850) ; Walden, Trans. Z. 



S. ix. p. 203 (1877). 

 Acridotheres cristatelloides, Cab. Mm. Hein. Th. i. p. 206 (1850). 



Adult male. General colour above dull slaty grey, clearer slaty on 

 the hind neck and mantle ; scapulars and upper tail-coverts like 

 the back, lesser and median coverts bronzy brown with ashy 

 margins ; greater coverts bronzy brown, edged with black ; bastard- 

 wing black; primary-coverts white; quills black, the primaries 

 white at the base, and bronzy brown at the end of the inner web ; 

 the secondaries bronzy brown or greenish bronze externally, the 

 inner secondaries like the greater coverts ; tail-feathers black, with 

 a greenish gloss on the outer web, and broadly tipped with white ; 

 crown of head and nape greenish black, as well as the lores, sides 

 of face, ear-coverts, and cheeks; throat, fore neck, and chest dark 

 slaty grey, shading into ashy isabelline on the breast, sides of 

 body, and iianks ; the abdomen purer isabelline; thighs dark slaty 

 grey : under tail-coverts creamy white ; under wing-coverts blackish 

 with grey tips ; axillaries ashy isabelline, like the breast ; quills below 

 blackish, with a large patch of white at the base of the primaries : 

 " bill wdth the basal half bluish black, the terminal half orange- 

 yellow ; mouth bluish ; legs orange-yellow, claws greenish horn- 

 colour ; iris bright yellow " {E. W. Oates). Total length 7-6 inches, 

 culmen 1, wing 4-45, tail 2-6, taz'sus 1'3. 



Hah. Sub-Himalayan region of the Indian Peninsula to the 

 Central Provinces, eastwards to Assam, Burmah, and Tenasserim. 



a. Ad. sk. Rawul Pindi, April 1875 {Col. Tweeddale Coll, 



Bidduljih). 

 h. S ad. sk. Thannamundi, May 9, 1871 ( W. Hume Coll. 



E. Broolis). 

 c. Ad. sk. Masuri, April 28, 1874 ( W. E. Hume Coll. 



Brooks), 

 d-f. Ad. sk. Masuri {Pinioill). 



(J. S ad. sk. Dehra Doon, Dec. 4, 1871 {Br. Hume Coll. 



G. King), 

 /j. Ad. sk. Kalsi, April 24,1868 (6-'. J-. Z. Hume Coll. 



Marshall). 

 i. Ad. sk. Kumaon. Hume CoU. 



k. 5 ad. sk. Futtehgurh District, June 19, Hume Coll. 



1868. 

 I. S ad. sk. Khatmandu, Nepal Valley, Hume Coll. 



April 19, 1877 {Dr. J. Scully). 

 7)1, n, 0. Ad. sk. Nepal. Hodgson Coll. 



1), q. Ad. sk. Nepal {B. H. Hodqson). India Museum. 



r. Ad. sk. Sikhim, Feb. 1876 {L. Man- Hume Coll. 



delK). 

 s. Ad. sk. Darjeeling. C. B. Wharton, Esq. 



[P.]. 



