172 TIMELIID/E. 



July, building a large massive nest of moss, lined with moss roots, and 

 wedged either into a fork of a branch or between ledges of rocks. The 

 eggs are figured as rather elongated ovals, O*8 x 0*56, with a pale buffy or 

 cafe au lait ground colour, thickly spotted with red or brownish red, the 

 markings forming a confluent zone about the large end. 



656. Yuhina occipitalis, ffodgs., Asiat. Res. xix. p. 167 ; id., 



J. A. S. B. vi, p. 231 (1837); Bp. Consp. i, p. 397; Jerd., B. Ind. \\, 

 p. 261, No. 627; Gould, B. Asia. pt. xv. ; Hume, Sir. F. 1879, p. 104; 

 Scully, t. c. p. 321 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii. p. 633. Polyodon 

 occipitalis, Hodgs., Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus. Passer es, pi. 68, The SLATY 

 HEADED or ORANGE^XAPED YUHINA. 



.Above, including the wing coverts, brown, tinged fulvescent on the rump ; 

 back, scapulars, tertiaries, outer webs of the quills and of the tail feathers 

 olive brown ; the primaries black, edged on the outer web with olive brown 

 and near the tip ashy ; crest dark ashy brown, tinged with rusty in some 

 specimens, the long feathers and nape tipped with ashy ; a narrow band of 

 orange rufous behind the nape, extending from eye to eye ; the lores dull 

 orange rufous ; the ear coverts dull ashy brown with whitish shaft streaks ; chin, 

 throat and breast, also the lower neck, vinous buff; an indistinct black 

 moustachial streak ; abdomen and under tail coverts orange buff ; the lower 

 breast and sides pale ashy brown ; under wing coverts and axillaries white. 

 Bill fleshy red ; legs orange buff ; iris brown. 



Length. 5 to 5-25 inches ; wing 2-5 ; tail 2 ; tarsus 0-65 ; culmen 0-65. 



Hob. Eastern Himalayas, from Nepaul to Bhootan ; recorded from 

 Nepaul, Darjeeling and Sikkim 10,000 feet. 



657. Yuhina nigrimentum, Hodgs., Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus. 

 Passer es, pi. 66, figs 13 (No. 697); id,, J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 562 ; Jerd., B. 

 Ind. ii. p. 262, No. 628; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 104 ; Sharp*, Cat. B. Br. 

 Mus. vii. p. 634. The BLACK-CHINNED YUHINA. 



Above, including the lesser and median wing coverts, dull olive brown ; 

 the mantle shaded with ashy ; greater series of coverts, also the primary coverts 

 and quills, dusky brown, edged externally with dull olive brown; tail dusky brown, 

 also edged on the outer web with olive brown ; head and nape slaty grey, the 

 feathers of crest blackish, edged with slaty grey; lores, base of mandible and 

 chin black ; ear coverts ashy grey ; cheeks and throat white; remainder of 

 the under surface, including the under tail coverts, fulvous or rufescent brown ; 

 the sides of the breast shaded with ashy ; under wing coverts fulvous. Bill 

 dusky above; the lower mandible red ; feet reddish yellow; iris brown. 



Length. 4*1 to 4-25 inches; wing 2-1 to 2'2; tail I'SS; tarsus <r6; 

 culmen o'. 



