98 TIMELIID/E. 



Crown of the head black, inclining to blackish brown on the nape; lores 

 and sides of the face black, as also the fore part of the ear coverts, which shade 

 off into brown on the hinder part, and resemble the sides of the neck, which 

 are slightly washed with slate colour ; cheeks, throat, and centre of belly 

 whitish ; the lower throat and breast washed with yellowish buff ; the sides of 

 the breast and flanks lilac grey, with a vinous tinge ; upper back slaty 

 brown ; the rump and upper tail coverts ashy grey ; lesser and median wing 

 coverts black ; the greater series slaty grey, edged with black at the tip, and 

 with broad white bases forming a conspicuous band across the wing ; quills 

 black, the primaries margined with horny grey ; the innermost secondaries ashy 

 grey, margined with black on both webs ; tail black, broadly tipped with ashy 

 grey, the two centre feathers ashy grey with a broad sub terminal band of 

 black ; thighs, vent and under tail coverts sandy buff ; under wing coverts and 

 axillaries white. (Sharpe.) 



Length. 9 inches; wing 3*65; tail 4*25; tarsus 1*15 ; culmen 0*95. 



Hab. Hills of Assam. Sharpe records specimens from Assam, Shillong 

 and the Khasia Hills. 



543. Malacias pulchella (Godw.-Aust.), Hume, Str. F. 1879, 

 p. 97; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus, vii. p. 407. Sibia pulchellus, Godw.-Aust- 

 Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. xiii. p. 160 ; id. J. A. S. B. xliii. pt. 2, p. 164. 

 The FASCIATED SIBIA. 



A narrow frontal band and lores, extending both over and below the 

 eye to the base of the ear-coverts, black ; upper parts ashy grey, tinged with 

 bluish on the head ; shoulder of wing blue grey ; a band of pale chocolate 

 coming in at the base of the black primary and secondary coverts. Quills 

 greyish black ; the primaries edged with pale hoary blue, the secondaries with 

 blue grey, the last three umber brown ; the hindmost two edged narrowly on 

 the outer web with black. Tail with the two centre feathers umber brown, 

 terminating in rich black, followed by dark grey ; outer feathers the same, the 

 black increasing on each feather to the outermost. Under surface of body 

 ashy blue, with a vinous brown tinge on the lower breast and abdomen. Bill 

 black; legs horny brown. 



Length. 9'$ inches; wing 4*1; tail 4*85; tarsus 1-3; bill at front 075. 

 (Godwin-Austen, ex. Sharpe.) 



Hab. Naga Hills, 8,000 feet. 



Pomatorhinus.- Horsf. 



Bill long, the culmen longer than the tarsus, compressed, pointed, and much 

 curved throughout ; nostrils barely apert ; rictal bristles minute and a few 

 only; wing equal to or longer than the tail, rounded; 5th and 6th quills 

 longest; tail long or moderate ; tarsi stout, shorter than the culmen. 



