1. SPHENOI ERCTTS. 



(1875); Brooks, Str. Feath. iii. p. 255 (1875) ; Wald. in Blyth's 

 B. Burnt, p. 144 (1875); Hume £ Davis. Str. Feath. vi. p. 415 



(1,-mu; Hiis. 188S, p. 225 (Cashuiere) : Hi' me, Str. Feat//, xi. p.292 

 ( L888) : Hem. fy Rchnto. Nomencl. Mus. Rein. Orn. p. 279 (1890) ; 



Sharpe, 8c. Res. Sec. York. Miss.,Aoes, p. 114 (1891). 

 Sphenocercus minor, Brooks, Str. Feath. iii. p. 255 (1875) ; Hume, 

 ibid, (note) (1875). 



Adult male. Head, neck, and lower plumage greenish yellow, the 

 crown and breast washed with rufous ; mantle greenish grey ; back 

 olive-green washed with maroon ; lower back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts olive-green ; sides grey, with the edges of the feathers 

 green ; middle of the abdomen yellowish white ; feathers of the 

 flanks dark green, with broad yellowish-white edges ; longer under 

 tail-coverts buff or pale cinereous, the basal ones green broadly tipped 

 with yellowish white ; smaller upper wing-coverts maroon, the 

 median and the greater ones olive-green, the latter with narrow yellow 

 edges ; primaries and secondaries slate-black, with narrow yellow 

 edges ; tertials olive-green ; wing underneath lead-grey ; tail above 

 olive-green, but the outer feathers more and more tinged with grey 

 and with a subapical obsolete blackish band ; tail below uniform 

 grey : " legs, feet, and claws crimson-pink : bill dull smalt-blue, 

 horny portion pale skimmed-milk-blue ; orbital skin pale smalt ; 

 irides with an inner ring of pale bright blue and an outer ring of 

 buffy pink " (Davison). Total length 13 inches, wing 7, tail 0, 

 bill 0-7, tarsus 0-9. 



Ft male. Differs from the male in being of a darker green and in 

 having uo maroon on the wings and back, which are olive-green 

 uniform with the rest of the upper parts ; there is no rufous tinge 

 on the crown and breast, and the longer under tail-coverts are 

 yellowish white centred with ashy olive-green. 



Hub. Kashmir, along the Himalayas and Burmese countries as 

 far south as Moolevit in Tenasserim. 



flj b. 6 2 ad- sk - 

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Kashmir (Dr. BeUew). 

 Agrore, May. 

 Koteghuij March, April. 



M urree. 



Simla, Julv, Aug., Sept. 



[A. O. H.). 

 Simla, July to Sept. (II. 



C. Beavan). 

 Dehra Dhoon, Jan. 



Naini Tal, Aug 

 Almorah, June. 

 Mussooree, Aug. 

 Daralee, May. 

 Bhagaratti Valley, 

 i W. /■-'■ Brooks). 



Sept. 



Mav 



India Museum. 

 Huroe Coll. 

 1 1 nine Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



