HYPOTHYMIS. 201 



Length $'1 inches; wing 2-85 ; tail 2-4 ; tarsus PI ; culmen 0-45. 

 Hab. S. E. Himalayas. Rare in Sikkim and Ncpaul. Fairly common 

 about Darjccling. 



227- Tarsiger ChrySCeuS, Hodgs. Icon. ined. Passeres, pi. 80 ; id. 

 P. Z. S. 1845, P- 28 5 7 e} 'd- &' Ind- P. M9; Hume, Nests and Eggs, 

 Jnd. B. p. 325, The GOLDEN BUSH-CHAT. 



Adult Male. Above orange yellow, the scapulars and feathers of the lower 

 back with olive brown tips ; crown of the head, hind neck and mantle olive 

 brown, inclining to rufous olive on the head ; a narrow frontal band, lores, 

 feathers round the eye and ear coverts black ; supercilium orange yellow ; 

 lesser and median wing coverts black, with mesial streaks of golden yellow 

 near the tips of the feathers ; greater series and quills black, externally edged 

 with orange brown ; the innermost greater series entirely orange yellow ; tail 

 particolored, yellow with a broad terminal band of black on all but the two 

 centre feathers, which are entirely black, and orange yellow only at the base ; 

 entire under surface of body orange yellow, some of the feathers on the sides 

 of the breast edged with black ; under wing coverts yellow ; under surface of 

 quills brown, yellowish buff along the inner webs ; bill blackish above ; lower 

 mandible yellow ; iris dark brown. 



Length. $ to 575 inches ; wing 2.75 to 2'8 ; tail 2-25 ; tarsus i'3 ; culmen 

 0-6. 



The female is olive yellow, or olivaceous above ; orbital ring whitish ; 

 supercilium and lores dull yellow ; ear coverts olive brown, with whitish shaft 

 streaks ; cheeks and^ under surface of body deep ochraceous yellow ; lower 

 abdomen whitish. 



Length. 5 inches ; wing 2'6 ; tail 2 ; tarsus 1*2. 



Hab The Himalayas. Recorded from Nepaul and Sikkim, and also 

 Darjeeling, where Jerdon says it is not uncommon and is a permanent resident. 

 It keeps to the forest in the valleys amongst thick underwood. Hodgson says 

 it is shy, solitary, and bush-loving. It breeds in the central regions of the 

 mountains of Nepaul, making a compact saucer-like nest of moss on the 

 ground under the roots of a tree, under stone, or in holes in banks. The 

 breeding season is from May to August. Eggs, 3 4 in number, of a verditer- 

 blue colour ; size 072 x 0*5. 



Gen. Hypothymis. 



Bill of moderate length, broad, triangular, suddenly narrowed, straight, tip 

 hooked, and with a distinct notch ; rictal bristles numerous ; nostrils with a 

 few hairs above it; 4th and 5th quills of wing subequal and longest; tarsus 

 short ; head with scale-like velvetty plumes. 



228. HypOthymiS azurea, Bodd % Tab. PL Enl. p. 41; Sharpe, 

 Cat. B. r. Mits. iv. p. 274; Oates, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 265. Myiagra 



