17. PSAEOGLOSSA. 117 



/. Ad. sk. Tenasserim. India Museum. 



(J, h. 2 ad. ; i. iS ad. Road between Amherst and Hume Coll. 

 sk. Moulmein, March 1874 ( W. 



Davison). 

 /c. ? jiiv. sk. Meetan, Feb. 27, 1877 {W. Hume Coll. 



Dainsuii). 

 I, in. c? ad. ; n. $ Yea, March 1874 ( W. Bavi- Hume Coll. 



juv. sk. sun). 



0, p, q. c5' ad. ; r, s. Meeta ]Myo, April 1874 ( W. Hume Coll. 



$ juv. sk. Davison). 



t. c? ad. sk. Tavoy,_ April 14, 1874 {W. Hume Coll. 



Davison). 

 u. Ad. sk. Cochin China. Mons. E. Pierre 



17. PSAEOGLOSSA. 



Type, 

 fearoglossa, Hodgs. J. A. S. Bemj. xiii. p. 3li7 (1844) . . P. spiloptera. 

 Psaroglossa, nam. emend., BIyth, Cat. B. Mies. As. Soe. 



p. 100 (1849) '. p. spiloptera 



.=-«ii#l^^^. 



Secondary quill of P. spiloptera. 



Range. Himalayas from Cashmere to Sikhim, Dacca, and Assam 

 through Burmah to Tenasserim. 



1. Psaroglossa spiloptera. 



Lamprotornia spiloptera, Vigors, P. Z. S. IS-'U, p. 3.5 ; Gould, Cent. 

 Himal. B. pi. 34 (1832) ; Hodc/s. J. A. S. Benq. v, p. 773 (18-36) : 

 MeClell. P. Z. S. 18-39, p. 163.' 



pt. 2, p. 9 (1848) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 418 (18,50) ; Hortf. Sf Moore, 

 Cat. B. Mils. E.I. Co. ii. p. 54-5 (1856) ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 336 

 (1863) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 28, no. 6396 (1870) ; Hume, Nests 

 Sf Eiigs Ind. B. p. 434 (1873) ; id. Str. F. 1874, p. 480; Wald. 

 in Bhjth's B. Burm. p. 91 (1875) ; Brooks, Str. F. 187-5, p. 254 ; 

 Armstr. Str. F. 1876, p. 334 ; Hume Sf Davison, Str. F. vi. p 394 

 (1878) ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 106, 1880, p. 256 ; Gates, Handh. 

 B. Brit. Burm. i. p. 394 (1883) ; Beid, Cat. Lucknoio Mus. p. 128 

 (1886) ; Hume, Str. F. xi. p. 268 (1888). 



Psarog-lossa spiloptera, Bh/th, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 109 (1850). 



Sarog-lossus spilopterus, Gray, Cat. 3Iumm. etc. Nepal pres. Hodqson, 

 p. 103 (1846). ' 



Adult male. General colour above ashy grey, all the feathers 



