to ' The Birds of India.' 299 



Hume (Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1870, p. 122) refuses to allow its 

 distinctness. 



392. Stachyris pyrrhops, Gould, B. Asia, pt. xv. pi. 9. 



I give a more correct description than I was enabled to do in 



* The Birds of India.^ Colour greenish olive, somewhat brighter 

 on the head and occasionally with a pale rufous tinge ; below 

 light cinnamon or rufescent, paler on the ear-coverts, lower 

 abdomen, and vent ; lores black, as also a small patch on the 

 chin ; wings and tail olive-bi'own, the central feathers of the 

 latter faintly barred ; bill bluish horny, with a tinge of pink ; 

 legs fleshy yellow; irides light red. Length A^ inches, extent 

 65, wing 2, tail 2, tarsus |. 



This species is by no means rare at Mussoorie and in other 

 parts of the N. W. Himalayas as far as Kashmir. Blyth, 

 through some mistaken impression (I imagine) as to what I had 

 written, says : — " This, and not Stachjris chryscea, is the bird 

 obtained by Adams in Kashmir ; '' for it will be seen, on refe- 

 rence to the text, that I distinctly state this. 



Stoliczka says that it chiefly frequents the zone from 4000 to 

 7000 feet, and frequents brushwood and low jungle, with the 

 habits of a Tit. I have heard it occasionally utter a clear, 

 musical, bell-like note. 



393. Stachyris ruficeps. 



This, it appears, is the Timalia pileata of M'Clelland's list of 

 Assam birds (P. Z. S. 1839, p. 161) — though, as a matter of 

 fact, that species is in reality more abundant in Assam. 



394. Stachyris chrys^a. 



The colours of this bird fade much and quickly. I give a 

 description of one obtained recentl5Mn freshly moulted plumage. 

 Above bright olivaceous yellow ; forehead and crown deep rich 

 yellow, with black streaks ; ear-coverts greenish ; wings and tail 

 margined with greenish yellow ; legs greenish ochrey. Length 

 4|- inches, extent 6^, wing 2g, tail 2, tarsus |, foot 1. Hodg- 

 son figures the nest as domed and placed on the summit of a 

 sedge ; the eggs pinkish white. 



39d. MiXORNIS RUBRICAPILLA. 



• Length of a fresh specimen 5 inches, extent 6|, wing 2 j, tail 2, 



