LIOPARUS, 293 



Measurements. Wing /J3 to 57 luiu. ; tail about 54 inni. ; tarsus 

 about L'2 mm. ; culinen about 9 miu. 



Distribution. Yunnan and W^. Cbina and ? 8banStates. 



Eggs of a Fulvetta sent nie I'roui tbe Eastern Slum States 

 ])robably belonged to tliis race. 



Nidificatiou and Habits. Fre(juents mountains between 7,000 

 and i 1,000 feet elevation. 



Geims LIOPARUS Gates, 1889. 



As pointed out by Gates this genus differs from Fulvetta in 

 having the hairs over the nostrils longer and tiie rictal bristles 

 much longer ; a siiorter, broader bill and, especially, by its much 

 shorter hind claw. The genus contains but one very little-known 

 species which Hodgson first called chri/sotis and then later altered 

 to chri/sieus. The former name, however, must stand. 



(309) Lioparus chrysotis. 



The Golden-breasteu Fitlvetta. 



Fro/xinis chrysotis (Ilodgs.), Blyth, J. A.S. B., xiii, p. 938 (1884) 



(Sikldm). 

 Lioparus c/tri/scens. lllanf. & Gates, i, p. 174, 



Vernacular names. Prony-samyer-pho (Lepcha). 



Description. Forehead, crown, nape and lores soft blackish- 

 ashy ; ear-coverts, cheeks and a ring round the eye silvery-white, 

 the first streaked with ashy ; back and scapulars ashy-oli\e ; rump 

 and upper tail-coverts olive-green; tail brown, t\i(\ basal two- 

 thirds of all the featliers margined with orange-yellow ; wing- 

 coverts black ; wings dark brown, the first five primaries edged 

 with orange-yellow ; the outer secondaries all broadly margined with 

 the same and ti])ped with white ; the inner seconchiries broadly 

 margined witli white on the inner webs ; chin and throat silvery- 

 ashy-brovvn ; remainder of lower plumage bright orange-yellow. 



Colours of soft parts. Iris brown ; bill plumbeous, paler below ; 

 legs pale fieshy. 



Measurements. Total length about 110 mm.; wing 50 to 54 mm.; 

 tail about 50 mm. ; tarsus about 23 mm. ; culmen about 8 mm. 



Distribution. Nepal, vSikkim and Assam in the higher ranges 

 both North and South of the Brahmaputra, Manipur, 



Nidification. Hodgson describes the nests as oval, measuring 

 about t)"x4-5", made almost entirely of bamboo leaves and 

 grass and lined with grass and moss roots. Nests taken by 

 H. Stevens in Nepal agree well with the above but are smaller 

 and are very deep cups, not domed, densely lined \\\t\\ feathers. 

 They were placed in chimps of bamboo as were Hodgson's. The 

 eggs, three in number, are white, deeply tinged with pink before 

 being blown, with blotches and spots of sienna-brown and pale 



