164 TIMELIID/E. 



Length. 5*25 inches; wing 2*75; tail 2*15; tarsus 0*8; culmen 0*5. 



Hab. Eastern Himalayas, extending to the Khasia and Sikkim hills in 

 N.-E. Bengal. A nest of the species was taken by Mr. Gammie below Rungbee 

 at an elevation of about 3,000 feet. It was similar in structure to that of the 

 last. Only three eggs were found in the nest. 



644. IxillllS humiliS, Hume, Sir. F. 1877, p. 106; id. and Davi- 

 son, Sir. F. 1878, p. 374 ; Oatcs, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 149 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. 

 Br. Mus. vii. p. 614. Staphidia humilis, Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 104. 

 DAVISON'S FLOWER-PECKER. 



Forehead, crown, occiput, the full broad occipital crest, back, entire visible 

 portion of the closed wings and tail, checks and ear coverts, a nearly uniform 

 brown ; upper tail coverts the same, but with a slightly more olivaceous tinge ; 

 lores and an obscure stripe on either side from the gape under the cheeks 

 and ear coverts a richer and darker brown ; chin, throat, sides of 

 neck, and entire lower surface of the body silky white, everywhere 

 except on the middle of the abdomen with longitudinal brown streaks very 

 narrow (as in I. flavicollis)^ on chin, throat and breast, broader on the sides, 

 flanks and lower abdomen, and occupying nearly the whole feather on the 

 lower tail coverts ; tibial plumes brown ; wing lining white (Hume) ; upper 

 mandible black ; the lower one pale brown ; legs and feet fleshy brown ; 

 irides red brown. (Davison.) 



Length, 5*2 inches ; tail r8 ; wing 2*5 ; tarsus 0*8 ; bill from gape O*6. 



Hab. Tenasserim, on the highest parts of Mooleyit mountain, where 

 Davison says he saw it hunting among the foliage near the top of a good-sized 

 tree for insects, which its stomach contained. 



Gen. Staphidia- Swinhoe. 



General characters as in Ixulus ; crest blunt, but very conspicuous ; rictal 

 bristles feeble and not reaching beyond the nostrils ; tail strongly graduated. 



645. Staphidia CastaneicepS (Moore), Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. 

 Mus. vii. p. 616 ; Swinh., P. Z. S. 1871, p. 374 ; Godw.-Austen, J. A. S. B. 

 xlvii. pt. 2, p. 20; Hume, Str. F. 1878, p. 403 ; id., Str. F. 1879, p. 104. 

 The CHESTNUT-HEADED FLOWER-PECKER. 



Adult (type of species). General colour above dusky brown, relieved by 

 white shaft streaks on the mantle and upper back ; wing coverts exactly like 

 the back and streaked in the same way ; bastard wing and primary coverts 

 blackish brown ; quills dark brown edged lighter brown, the inner secondaries 

 with white shafts ; tail feathers blackish brown, shafted with lighter brown 

 near the base, all but the four centre feathers tipped with white, which in- 

 creases in extent towards the outermost, where the white also extends some 

 distance up the outer web ; forehead and top of head rufous brown, mottled 

 with ashy brown margins to the feathers ; hinder part of crown chestnut 



