316 TIMALIID ©. 
Description. Differs from Hodgson’s Blue-winged Siva in having 
the upper plumage more olive-brown and in having no white tips 
to the wing-quills. 
Colours of soft parts and Measurements as in the last bird, 
the culmen averaging a little larger. 
Distribution. Kachin Hills to Yunnan and the Shan States. 
Nidification. Nothing recorded but a nest and egg sent me from 
the Shan States are exactly like those of the last bird. 
Habits those of the genus, 
(337) Siva cyanouroptera sordida. 
Tue Dur Siva. 
Stva sordida Hume, 8. F., v, p. 104 (1877) (Muleyit); Blanf. & 
Oates, 1, p. 210. 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. Differs from Hodgson’s Blue-winged Siva in having 
the upper parts earthy-brown, the under parts entirely white and 
no white tips to the wing-quills. 
Colours of soft parts. ‘‘ Lower mandible, legs, feet and claws 
whitey-brown ; upper mandible darker but still pale brown; iris 
creamy-white ” (Oates). 
Measurements. Wing 62 mm.; tail 68 mm.; culmen 14 mm. 
Distribution. Mt. Muleyit in Tenasserim. 
Nidification and Habits. Nothing recorded. 
(335) Siva cyanouroptera oatesi. 
Oates’s Siva. 
Siva cyanouroptera oatest Harington, Bull. B. O. C., xxxiii, p. 62 
(1918) (Byingyi Mountain). 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. Intermediate between wingatei and sordida. Above 
olive-brown tinged with ochre on the rump but the head almost 
entirely dull blue, showing only faint indications of the stripes 
which are conspicuous in wingate’. Below white. 
Distribution. Mt. Byingyi, borders of Shan States. 
Nidification and Habits unknown. 
Genus YUHINA Hodgson, 1836. 
The genus )uhina contains four species which are found within 
the limits of this work, extending from the Western Himalayas 
to Assam, Burma and China. 
In Yuhina the bill is about two-thirds the length of the head, 
greatly curved and sharply pointed; the frontal hairs and rictal 
