Mr. H. J. Elwes on the Genus Henicurus. 255 



Head, neck, back, wings, and throat black ; breast, belly, 

 rump, sides, tail-coverts, and wing-bar white ; a white band on 

 the forehead about f inch broad, extending from above the eye 

 across the base of the bill. Beak black ; eyes dark brown ; legs 

 and feet fleshy white. 



Female like the male, but slightly duller-coloured on the 

 head. Young birds are of a duller black, and have no white 

 on the forehead. 



Length 8| inches ; tail 4^ to 4f ; wing 3| ; tarsus 1 ; bill 

 from gape f. 



This species, which, in the Himalayas, is the rarest of all the 

 genus, appears to be commoner in the hill-ranges of Burmah 

 and Aracan. I shot one pair on April 4th, 1870, by the side of 

 a narrow jungle- torrent, at a place called Sivoke, where the 

 Teesta river debouches from the Sikim mountains into the 

 plains. They were apparently breeding, and exactly resembled 

 H. guttatus in flight and habits. 



Of this pair the male has hardly any white tips to the secon- 

 daries, whilst in the female they are quite conspicuous. This 

 seems to be a most variable character in other species of the 

 genus. 



This bird much resembles H. schistaceus ; but adult specimens 

 may be distinguished by the broader white band on the forehead, 

 as well as the colour of the back, and immature ones by the 

 absence of the conspicuous white mark on the primaries, which 

 in H. schistaceus extends beyond the primary wing-coverts. 



4. Henicurus scouleri. 



Enicurus scouleri, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1830-31, p. 174 : Gould, 

 Cent. Him. Birds, pi. 28; Birds of Asia, pt. xviii. ; Jameson, 

 Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vii. p. 363; Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 1 57 ; 

 Cat. Birds in Mus. As. Soc. Cal. p. 159 ; Beavan, Ibis, 1868, 

 p. 75 ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Birds in Mus. E. I. Comp. i. 

 p. 347 ; Gray, Cat. Hodgs. Coll. in B. Mus. p. 76 ; Adams, 

 P. Z. S. 1858, p. 489, 1859, p. 179 ; Jerdon, Birds of India, ii. 

 p. 214. 



Henicurus scouleri, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 365 ; Stoliczka, 

 J. A. S. B. 1868, p. 47. 



