STAPHIDIA, 165 



brown becoming brighter chestnut on the occiput and nape ; lores and 

 feathers round the eye whitish ; ear coverts chestnut streaked with pale shaft 

 lines ; an indistinct superciliary streak of ashy whitish above the ear coverts ; 

 cheeks and under surface of body dirty white washed with brown on the 

 flanks ; under tail coverts dull white, with dusky brown bases to the feathers ; 

 under wing coverts and auxiliaries buffy white. (Sharpe.) 



Length. 5-5 inches ; wing 2-3 ; tail 2-15 ; tarsus O'6$ ; culmen 0-45. 

 Hab. Hills of N.-E. Bengal. The type is from the Khasia hills. 



648. Staphidia rufigenis (Humi), Godw.-Aust. y. A. S. B. 



xlvii. pt. 2, p. 20; Hume, Str. F. 1878, p. 145 ; id., Str. F. 1879, p. 104. 

 Ixulus rufigenis, Hume, Str, F. 1877, p. 106. Ixulus striatus, Jerd., B. Ind. 

 ii. p. 260. Staphidea plumbiceps, Godw.-Aust. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 (4), xx. p. 519, (1877); id., J. A. S. B. xlvii. pt. ii. p. 20; Hume, Str. F. 

 1878, p. 143 ; id., Str. F. 1879, p. 104. The CHESTNUT-EARED FLOWER- 

 PECKER. 



Above, including the wing coverts brown, with distinct whitish shaft streaks ; 

 primary coverts blackish brown ; quills dark brown, edged externally with 

 the same brown as on the back, the tips of the primaries margined with 

 white and the inner secondaries with white shafts ; uppper tail coverts rufe- 

 scent brown ; tail blackish brown, washed with lighter brown near the base ; all 

 but the centre feathers tipped with white ; head crested, dusky brown, edged 

 with grey ; lores whitish ; sides of crown behind the eye rufous with whitish 

 shaft streaks ; ear coverts chestnut with paler shaft streaks ; cheeks mottled 

 with white and rufous ; under surface of body pale fulvous white; under tail 

 coverts white ; under wing coverts and axillaries pale fulvous white. Bill 

 dusky brown, fleshy yellow at the base ; legs pale brown ; iris light brown. 



Length. 5 inches ; wing 2*35 ; tail 2* I ; tarsus 0*65 ; culmen 0*45. 

 Hab. Eastern Himalayas (Sikkim). 



647. Staphidia Striata (Blyth), Blyth and Wald., B. Burm. 

 p. 1 10 ; Godiv.-Aust., J. A. S. B. xlvii. pt ii. p. 20 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, 

 p. 104; Oates, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 150; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii.p. 617. 

 Ixulus striatus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxviii. p. 413. Pycnonotus nanus, Tickell, 

 J. A. S. B. xxviii. p. 452. The STRIATED FLOWER-PECKER. 



Above greyish brown, each feather with a white mesial streak ; below 

 albescent, outermost feather of tail f inch shorter than the middle pair and 

 broadly tipped with white, as is also the ante-penultimate and next ; the outer 

 four feathers successively graduating (Blyth) ; iris blood- red. Bill dark horn ; 

 legs reddish horn. 



Length. $ inches ; wing 275 ; tail 275 ; tarsus O'6 ; bill from gape 0-5. 



