314 TIMALIID^E. 



It is placed either in a high bush or a small sapling in forest, either 

 pine, fir or other kinds. The eggs vary from two to four and are 

 a bright pale blue in colour with a few specks or spots of black, or 

 reddish, or reddish brown. They measure according to Hodgson 

 between 20-0 to 22-8 in length and between 15-2 to 16-5 in breadth 

 but nine eggs in my own collection measure only 19*6 x 14-9 mm. 



Habits. This bird, like others of the genus, goes about in small 

 flocks, haunting both the higher tiees and scrub- and bush-jungle, 

 though it keeps more to the former than the latter. 



(334) Siva strigula castaneicauda. 



HUME'S SIYA. 



Siva castaneicauda Hume, S. F., v. p. 100 (1877) (Muleyit) ; Blanf. 

 & Gates, i, p. 209. 



Vernacular names. Xone recorded. 



Description. Differs from the last bird in the much greater 

 extent of red on the tail ; the sides of the head are blackish and 

 the ring of yellow round the eye brighter and more conspicuous. 



Colours of soft parts. Iris deep brown ; upper mandible brown, 

 lower fleshy ; legs and feet dingy glaucous-blue. 



Measurements as in the last. I cannot find that the average 

 size of the bill is any bigger. Gates says that the bill is much 

 larger but gives no details. 



Distribution. The whole of Burma, throughout the hills from 

 Tenasserim to the Chin and Kachin Hills and Siarn. 



It is extremely difficult to define the limits of these two races. 

 Birds from the extreme South and East of Burma are quite different 

 from those of the Western Himalayas to Sikkim, but birds from 

 Assam to W. Central Burma are intermediate, having the sides of 

 the head little darker than in typical strigula, yet with nearly as 

 much red on the tail as castaneicauda ; the Chin Hills birds are a 

 step nearer the latter, \vhilst those from Yunnan, the Shan States 

 and all Eastern and Southern Burma are practically identical with 

 that form. 



Nidification and Habits as far as is known like those of the, last 

 bird. A single egg taken by Mr. W. A. T. Kellow measures 

 18-4x15-6 mm. 



(335) Siva cyanouroptera cyanouroptera. 



HODGSON'S BLUE-WINGED SIVA. 

 Sim a/anouroptera Hodgs., Ind. Rev.,1838, p. 88 (Nepal) ; Blanf. 



& Gates, i, p. 209. 



Vernacular names. MegUim adum (Lepcha). 

 Description. Forehead, crown, nape and hind neck pale blue, 

 the sides of the crown deeper blue, the forehead and anterior part of 

 the crown streaked with brown ; lores, round the eyes and a broad 



