21G ON A NEW SPECIES OF TIMALIA. [1872. 



of C.jerdoni and C. tkkelUa; are blue, like the males, but of a much paler shade. The young 

 birds also of both sexes change dii-ectly from their rust-spotted plumage to the full blue plumages 

 of the adults. Now if tliis be so, before Captain Lloyd's conclusions can be adopted, the Cijornis 

 male and female of Central India must be compared with the Cyornis male and female of 

 Malabar and Ceylon. This comparison examples of both sexes from Candeish, ISIalabar, and 

 Ceylon in my coUectiou have enabled me to institute. My results are, that from all those 

 localities the females are paler-coloured than the males ; and this is also the case in C. bauyunws 

 (Horsf ) ex Java. The females of Candeish individuals (C. tickelUce) are, above, almost ashy 

 grey, tinged with blue. The lazuline hue of the forehead, supercilium, and shoulder is present, 

 but less intense than in the male. The orange under-surface of the male degenerates into a dull 

 buff in the female. The lores in the female ai-e white, whereas in the male they are black. The 

 cheeks and ear-coverts are palpably darker in the male than in the female. 



In Malabar and Ceylon birds {C.jerdoni) the females are darker and bluer than the Candeish 

 females. They closely resemble Candeish males, from which they can only be distinguished by 

 their white lores. Malabar and Ceylon males are, above, very dark blue, below very bright orange, 

 with the lores and chin Hack. It may be that an examination of a larger series than I command 

 may not bear out these facts ; but if it does so, it appears to me that we may fairly continue in 

 the belief that C. jerdoni and C. tickellicB designate two distinct species, the male of the last 

 wearing the female livery of the first. 



Yours &c., 



Walden. 



Chislehurst, Juno 1, 1872. 



A. M. X. H. On a new ilj)ecies o/Tiraalia from Eastern India. By Arthur, Viscount Walden, P.Z.S., F.li.S. 

 ^"' 'J^ '^' [From the 'Annals and Magazine of Natural History,' ser. 4, vol. x., July 1872.] 



Timalia jerdom, n. sp. 



Timalia j)ileata, Horsf. ap. Jerdon, li. Ind. ii. p. 24, nee Horsf. 



A narrow frontal band extending over the eyes, the cheeks, chin, and tliroat white ; forehead 



and crown deep chestnut ; remainder of upper surface dark olive-grey ; quills and rectrices above 



A M. N. n. brown, tinged with olive; rectrices traversed by numerous narrow bands of a darker shade 



p.' 62. of brown; upper part of breast white, changing to cinereous lower down; each feather witli a 



black shaft ; remainder of lower surface fulvous mixed with cinereous olive ; under tail-coverts 



cinereous olive. 



