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851. Calliope pectoralis. The Himalayan Baby-throat. 



Calliope pectoralis, Gould, lcm. Av. pt. i, pi. W (1837) : 5 ^'Afj* 

 p 101) ; .Hbrtf $■ itf. CW. i, p. 313 ; Jez-rf. if. in, p. 150 ; Siohczka, 

 V JA 8 B. xxxvii, pt. ii, p. 45 ; Blanf. J. A. 8. B. xli, pt. n p. 52 ; 

 SumeN 2 J£ p 325; id. Cat. no. 513 ; Scully, S.F._jin,V- 304; 

 Tmulphl Ibis, 1 P 881, p. 64 ; Gates in Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. n, 



Erftnacus pectoralis {Gould), Seebohm, Cat. B. M. v, p. 303. 



The White-tailed Ruby-throat, Jerd. 



Coloration. Male. After the autumn moult the whole upper 

 plumage, wing-coverts, and sides of the neck are dark slaty, 

 blacke?on the crown ; forehead and a short supemhum whde ; 

 middle of chin and of throat bright crimson; lores, sides of head, 

 ddes of chin and of throat, and the whole breast deep black, every 

 feather fringed with ashy; abdomen, vent, and under ^*™£* 

 white ; wings brown, edged with olivaceous ; middle tail-feathers 

 black, the others with the basal half white and the terminal half 

 black tipped with white. In summer the ashy fringes are cast and 

 the upper plumage is tinged with olivaceous. 



Female. Olive-brown, the outer webs of the quills suffused with 

 fulvous ; lores, edge of forehead, and a short supercihum dingy 

 white ; chin and middle of throat white, contrasting with the ashy- 

 brown of the sides of the throat and the breast ; abdomen pale 

 fulvous ; middle tail-feathers olive-brown , the others blackish brown 



tiP The neltlinVlfas the upper plumage fulvous-brown, much darker 

 on the crown, all the feathers with fulvous streaks ; lower plumage 

 fulvous, all the feathers margined with dark brown; the tail-feathers 

 at first tipped with fulvous instead of white, and the male from 

 the eariiei age has the base of the tail white. At the firs autumn 

 moult the young male assumes the dark upper pumage of the adult 

 ale, but retains the lower plumage of the adult female ; traces ot 

 the black breast are assumed during the first summer, but t he 

 breast does not become fully plumaged till the moult ot the second 

 autumn. The female becomes adult at the first autumn moult. 



m black, brownish at tip and base of lower mandib e ; iris 

 brown ; feet brown ; the tarsi rather livid ; claws dusky {Scully). 

 Length about 6; tail 2-4 ; wing 3 ; tarsus 1-2; bill trm. .gape -75. 

 Distribution. A constant resident on or a summer visitor to, the 

 higher portions of the Himalayas from Gilgif to Sikhim and ^Bhutan. 

 A winter visitor to the intermediate and ower ranges ot the same 

 mountains, being occasionally found m the plains at the foot as in 

 the Bhutan dears and at Sultanpur in Oudh. In summer this species 

 is also found in Turkestan. , , 



Habits, Sfc. Breeds in Kashmir and Sikhim at 10,000 feet and 

 upwards. A nest, said to belong to this species and found «j8*^ 

 is described as being a saucer-shaped pad of fine moss and ^ 

 placed in a deep crevice of a rock. The eggs are described as being 

 pale salmon-buff and as measuring about -9 oy 'Ob. 



