62 TIMELIID^. 



Upper plumage and sides of the head and neck dull cyaneous ; lores 

 black, bordered above by white, which is continued back over the eye ; wings 

 dusky brown, margined externally with cyaneous ; tail feathers dusky, washed 

 on the outer webs with cyaneous ; throat white, also the breast and abdomen ; 

 foreneck, sides of the body, flanks and thighs ashy grey ; under tail coverts 

 white ; under wing coverts ashy grey, edged with white ; rump with a half 

 concealed greyish white band. 



The female has the upper plumage, including the wings and tail, rusty brown, 

 the inner webs of quills plain brown, the outer margined with rusty brown ; 

 lores whitish or fulvous brown ; a white patch over the lores and eye; breast 

 and abdomen white ; sides of body and flanks fulvous brown ; throat dull 

 white washed with fulvous brown ; under wing and under tail coverts and 

 axillaries light fulvous brown, also the foreneck and chest. Bill darky horny ; 

 legs pale horn ; irides light brown. 



Length. 4-5 to 5 inches ; wing 2-5 ; tail 1*4 ; bill at front 0*5. 



ff a &. Th? Himalayas, extending to the Khasia, Burmese and the Tenasse- 

 rim hills. Davison found it near the summit of the Mooleyit mountain in Tenas- 

 serim. It has also been found in the Khasia hills and in Sikkim and Nepaul. 

 Davison says they keep entirely to the ground, hopping about amongst dead 

 leaves and moss or on fallen trunks, picking up insects. Affects only dense 

 forests, and by preference the banks of streams. 



491. Brachypteryx stellata, Gould., P. Z. S. 1868, p. 218 ; Gray* 



Hdlist. Birds, i. p. 312; Hume, Sir. F. 1878, ii. p. 377; id., Sir. F. 1879, 

 p. 93 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii. p. 30. The BARRED SHORT-WING. 



Adult (type). Above dull chestnut or rufous ; the rump feathers loose and 

 ashy brown, barred with black near the ends and tipped with white ; wing 

 coverts like the back ; quills light sepia brown, externally rufous brown ; 

 upper tail coverts and tail feathers rufous or dull chestnut; outer feathers 

 brown on the inner web ; forehead slaty grey, vermiculated with blackish bars ; 

 lores and feathers in front of and below the eye, also the base of the cheeks, 

 black ; ear coverts grey, washed with brown and finely vermiculated with black 

 lines ; cheeks, sides of neck, throat and breast slaty grey, with finely vermiculated 

 cross bars of black ; the breast with arrowhead spots of white ; abdomen and 

 sides of body slaty grey, less strongly vermiculated with black and with large 

 spots of white ; lower abdomen and flanks tinged with brown, also the thighs 

 and under tail covert?, which are also vermiculated with black lines and spotted 

 with white ; under wing coverts and axillaries slaty grey, with narrow cross 

 bars of black and spotted with white. (Sharpe.) 



Length. 4-7 inches; wing 2-85; tail 1-9; tarsus i'i; culmen 0*55. 

 (Sharpe.) 



ffab. Sikkim. 



