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496. Lioptila annectens, Biyth, J. A. . B. xvi. p. 450 ; Jerd., B. 



Jnd.\\. p. 248 ; Godw-Aust. J. A. S. B. xxxix. p. 109; Walden, in Bl. B. 

 Burnt. ?. 109; Hume, Str. F. 1877, P- IJO ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii. 

 p. 80 ; Leioptila saturata, Wald. Ibis, 1875, p. 352. Leioptila Davisoni, 

 Hume, Str. F. 1877, p, uo. The BLACK-HEADED SHRIKE-TIT. 



Head, nape, lores, sides of the head and of the neck and upper back, 

 black ; the mantle, head, and nape streaked with white ; lower back, rump, 

 scapulars and upper tail coverts deep maroon ; lesser, median and greater 

 coverts black, the latter tipped with maroon ; quills black ; all but the first two 

 primaries edged with grey, and the tertiaries tipped with greyish white ; chin, 

 throat, breast, and abdomen white ; flanks, vent, and under tail coverts pale 

 ferruginous ; tail black, all but the two centra} pairs of feathers tipped with 

 white. Bill black, the base of the lower mandible yellow ; legs p.ale fleshy 

 brown ; irides brown. 



Length. 6*5 to 7 inches; wing 3- 1 to 3'2;tail 3- 1 ; tarsus 0-95 ; culmenO'65. 



Hab, Eastern Himalayas, extending to the hills of Assam, Burmah, and 

 Tenasserirn. According to Jerdon, who obtained it near Darjeejing, it 

 frequents very high trees in small flocks. It hunts about the leaves and smaller 

 branches of the tree tops. Its food is insects. 



Gen. Hodgsonius, Bp, 



Bill slender and not much curved, and with a distinct notch ; rictal bristles 

 scanty ; wings short, moderately rounded, and not as long as the tail, which" % is 

 graduated ; tarsus long, entire ; 2 3 small scutes at the base of the toes ; feet 

 large, toes slender, claws curved. 



497- Hpdgsonius phcenicuroides (Hodgs^, Bp. Consp. \. p. 300 ; 



Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 497, No. 341 ; Hume, Ibis, 1870, p. 529; Jerd. Ibis, 

 1872, p, 132 ; Hume and Henderson, Lah. to Fark., p. 187; Hume, Str. F. 

 1879, p f 93 ; firoofts, t. c. p. 476, Callene Hodgsoni, Jerd. Ibis, 1872, p. 

 132 ; Hume, Sir, F, 1875, p. 41 I J id. 1879, p. 83 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br.Mus. 

 vii. p. 8 1. Bradybates phoenicuroides, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc, p. 83, 

 (1844). HODGSON'S WHITE-PELLIED SHORT-WING. 



Crown of the head and upper surface slaty blue ; the ear coverts, sides of 

 face an4 cheeks darker ; a faint light blue supercilium from across the fore- 

 head, the base of which latter and lores are blackish ; primary coverts blackish, 

 edged externally with slaty blue ; the bastard wing the same, and with broad 

 white tips ; quills dusky, edged externally with slaty blue ; upper tail coverts slaty 

 blue, also the throat, sides, under surface of the body, thighs and flanks ; 

 abdomen white, under tail coverts slaty blue, tipped with white ; tail, with the 

 two central feathers, blackish brown, edged with slaty blue ; the remainder 

 orange rufous for their basal half or two-thirds, blackish at the end, and edged 

 with blue ; under wing coverts and axillaries slaty blue, the edge of the wing 

 brighter. Bill dusky, reddish at the gape; legs pale red brown; iris dark 

 brown. 



