170 TIMELUD/E. 



General colour above dark fulvous brown ; the head like the back, tut dusky 

 on the forehead, which is washed with fulvous brown ; wing coverts like th^ 

 back ; median and greater series dusky, edged with light fulvous brown ; quills 

 dark brown, externally margined with reddish brown ; tail feathers dusky 

 brown, washed with deep fulvous brown on their margins ; sides of crown and 

 ear coverts, as well as the lores and the feathers under the eye, black ; cheeks, 

 throat and chest ashy white ; rest of under surface of the body fulvous 

 brown, paler in the centre of the body and a little deeper on the under tail 

 coverts ; thighs slightly washed with ashy ; axillaries and under wing coverts 

 fulvous brown. (Sharpe) Bill above black, below pale slaty ; legs and feet dull 

 brown ; iris white. (Bovrditten.) 



Length. 5*2 inches ; wing 2-3 ; tail 2' i ; tarsus 0-9 ; culmen cr6. 

 Hab. Travancore. 



654. Alcippe Chrysaea (Hadgs.), Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus* 

 vii, p. 627. Siva (chrysotis) chryseus, Hodgs., Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus. App, 

 pi. 122. Proparus chrysotis, Hodgs., J . A. S. B. xiii. p. 938 (1844) ; Blyth 7 

 op. cit. xvi. p. 448. Proparus chrysaeus, Jerd., B. 2nd. ii. p. 256 ; Hume, 

 Sir. F. 1879, p. 104. The YELLOW-BREASTED QUAKER-THRUSH or HILL- 

 TIT. 



Above, including the lesser and median wing coverts, ashy grey ; the lower 

 back and rump washed with olive green ; a longitudinal band of rieh orange 

 yellow on the wings formed by the yellow margins to the secondaries, 

 which are also tipped with white; primaries, coverts and greater series black, 

 the former with narrow yellow margins on some of the feathers ; quills black, 

 the outer primaries margined with yellow, becoming paler towards the tips; 

 tail feathers dark ash margined with golden yellow ; head darker than the 

 back, blackish on the forehead and lores ; ear coverts silvery grey ; throat 

 silvery ash grey ; under surface of the body bright yellow ; axiJlaries and 

 under wing coverts dusky, margined with yellowish white. Bill plumbeous ; 

 legs pale fleshy ; iris brown. 



Length. 4 to 475 inches ; wing 2 to 2-2 ; tail 2 j tarsus 0*85 ; culmen 

 0*4. 



Hab. Eastern Himalayas. Recorded from Nepatrl and Darjeeling. 

 Jerdon says it is not very common in Sikkim. According to Hodgson it breeds 

 near Darjeeling and in the central region of Nepaul, laying three to four eggs, 

 which are figured as somewhat broad ovals, measuring 0*7 x 0*5, with a 

 pinky white ground, speckled and spotted thinly, except to\vards the large 

 end, where there is a tendency to- form a cap or zone with brownish red. The 

 nest is entirely composed of dry bamboo kaves and broad blades of grass 

 loosely interwoven, and with a little grass and moss roots as lining. 



