J66 PRIONOPID^E. 



Length. 5-3 inches ; wing 2-5 ; tail 2-55 ; tarsus O'5$ ; culmeno'6, (Sharpe.) 



The adult female differs from the male in having the head brown, only a 

 little darker than the back ; wings brown ; tail blackish brown, the markings on 

 both these exactly as in the male. (Sharpe.) 



Hab. The N.-W. Provinces, Himalaya Mountains, ranging into Burmah, 

 Sharpe records it from the Himalayas, Nepaul, Darjeeling. and Kakhyen Hills, 



Gen. Hypocolius- p, 



Bill hooked at tip, and notched ; 3rd quill longest ; feet scuteljated tail 

 Jong, subcuneate, 



177- Hypocolius ampelinus, Bonap. Consp, i, p. 336 (1850); 



Hume, Sir. F, iii. 358; v. 349; Murray, Hdbfr. Zaal. fyc., Sind, p. 13$. 

 Ceblypyris isabellina, Heugl. Syst. Uebers, Vog. N. O, Africa ; Sitznng&ber, 

 K< Akad, Wien. xix. p, 284, No. 308 ; Ibis, 1868, pp, \S\, 183, pi. v. 



Upper parts generally ashy grey, with a slight rufous tinge on the head, 

 which is more marked on the frontal portion, where the feathers are rather 

 lighter and more isabelline in tint ; feathers above the nostrils, lower parts 

 of the lores, all round the eye, and a band round the nape black, so that there 

 is a black ring all round the head, except in the centre of the forehead ; ear 

 coverts dark silver grey, looking black in some lights in the preserved skin ; 

 primary quills black, with rather long white tips, the tip on the first long 

 primary being wholly, and on the second partially, dusky ; outer secondaries 

 black _with grey edges, the black diminishing in amount, until it disappears 

 completely on the feathers near the body ; tail feathers the same colour 

 as the back with black tips about three-quarters of an inch long ; chin and 

 throat isabelline ; breast grey, like the back ; abdomen and lower tail coverts 

 pinkish isabelline ; under wing coverts light grey ; legs flesh-coloured ; bill 

 horn coloured, dusky towards the tip. 



Length. Before skinning io'2$ inches ; wing 4*2 ; tail (from insertion of 

 central feather) 4*75 ; tarsus i ; midtoeand claw 0*95 ; wing short of end of tail 

 3-6; culmen (point of bill from rise of skull) 0,85 ; bill from front 0-5 ; from 

 gape 0-9. 



The female is described by Heuglin as slightly smaller, isabelline grey in 

 colour, with an olivaceous tinge, darker above than below, wanting altogether 

 the black marking on the head, and having much less distinct black tips to 

 the tail feathers. The ends of the primary quill feathers, the two first 

 excepted, blackish with white margins. Blf, Sir. F. iii, p. 358. 



Hab. Abyssinia, Bushire (Persian Gulf) and Nal in Khelat. Rare in Sind. 

 A single specimen was obtained by Mr. Blanford on the lower hills, on the 

 eastern flank of the great Kirthur Range, which forms the boundary between 

 Sind and Khelat, 



