ALCIPPE. 



649- Alcippe nipalensis (Hodgs.), Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi. 



pp. 448, 462; Up. Consp. i. p. 260; Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 18, No. 388; 

 Godw.- Austen, J. A. S, B. xxxix. p. 103; Hume, Str. F. 1874, p. 476; 

 id., Sir. F. 1875, p. 117; Hume and Dav., Sir. F. 1878, pp. 260, 513; 

 Hume, Sir. F. 1879, p. 95 ; Scully, t. c. p. 287 ; Brooks, t. c. p. 471 ; Hume, 

 Sir. F. 1881, p. 206 ; Gates, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 68 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. 

 Mus. vii. p. 620. Siva nipalensis, Hodgs., Ind. Rev. p. 89. The NEPAUL 

 QUAKER-THRUSH. 



Above fulvous brown ; the top of the head, nape and upper back ashy 

 brown ; a streak of dusky blackish along the sides of the crown ; ear coverts and 

 sides of the ne ck paler ; lores, feathers in front of and round the eye whitish 

 ashy ; chin and cheeks slightly darker than the lores ; back, scapulars, wing 

 coverts, rump, upper tail coverts and tail fulvous brown ; primary coverts and 

 quills dusky brown, edged on the outer web with fulvous brown, the innermost 

 secondaries entirely fulvous brown ; under surface of the body ochraceous 

 or pale buff, deeper on the sides and flanks ; and more whitish on the centre 

 of the abdomen ; under tail coverts ochraceous buff ; under wing coverts and 

 axillaries buffy white. Bill grey or livid horny ; the base of the upper mandible 

 and a line along the culmen black ; feet livid fleshy ; iris hazel brown. 



Length. 5*0 inches ; wing 2*35 ; tail 2-4 ; tarsus O'8 ; culmen 0*55. 



Hab. Eastern Himalayas, hills of N.-E. Bengal, ranging into Tenasserim. 

 It has been procured in Nepaul, Sikkim, the Khasia and Dafla hills, Bhootan, 

 Cachar and Darjeeling. In the latter, Jerdon says, it is very common, frequent- 

 ing trees, either singly or in pairs, feeding chiefly on insects. Gates says 

 it is rather local, and rare in Burmah. Hume has had specimens from the 

 northern part of the Pegu hills ; while Davison procured it in the pine forests 

 of the Salween and on Mooleyit mountain in Tenasserim. Blyth has recorded 

 it from Arrakan. They breed from March to May in the Himalayas. The 

 nest is said to be deep, massive and cup-shaped. The number of eggs are 

 three or four, moderately elongated ovals, very regular and pointed towards 

 one end, the ground colour is white or pinkish white, and very minutely 

 speckled all over with purplish red. Size 0-71-72 x 0*52-54. 



650. Alcippe phaeocephala (Jerd.}, Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. 

 vii. p. 622. Timaliapoiocephala, Jerd., Madr. Journ. xiii. p. 169. Alcippe 

 poiocephala, Blyth, Cat. B. Br. Mus. As. Soc. p. 148; Bp. Consp. i. 

 p 260 ; Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 18 ; id., Ibis, 1872, p. 298 ; Davison and Wenden, 

 Sir. F. 1878, p. 82; Hume, Sir. F. 1879, p. 95 ; Blanf. t. c. p. 181 ; Vidal, 

 Str. F. 1880, p. 83 ; Butler, t. c. p. 399. The NEILGHERRY QUAKER-THRUSH. 



Above, including the mantle, wing coverts, outer edge of quills and all the 

 inner secondaries fulvous brown ; upper tail coverts deep fulvous brown ; tail 

 reddish brown washed externally with rufous ; head and nape light ashy 

 grey ; no blackish band down the sides of the crown ; lores dull whitish ; 

 sides of face and ear coverts light brown with svhitish shaft lines to the latter 



