SIVA. i7r> 



(3eri. Siva. Hodgs* 



Bill short, somewhat conic, compressed, gently curved, arid the tip entire ; 

 I'ictal setae few and weak ; tail with the four central feathers square and 

 equal to the wing ; feet short ; hind -toe long ; claws well curved. Inhabitants 

 of the Himalayas, rangirig to Assam, Burmah and Teriasserim. 



660. Siva Strigula, Hodgs., Ind. Rev. 1838 ; id., Icon. ined. in Br< 

 Mus. Passeres, pi. 68, fig. 5 (No. 314) ; Gould, B. Asia, part xiv. ; Jerd., B. 

 Ind. ii. p. 252, No* 6i6 ; Brooks, Str. F* 187$, p. 252; Hume, Sir, F. 

 1879, p. 104; Scully, t. c. p. 319. Leiothrix strigtila, Gray, Gen. B. i. 

 p. 269; Blyih, Cat. B, Mus. As. Soc< p. 99; Bp. Consp. i. p. 333. Hemi- 

 parus strigilla, Hodgs., J< A. S. B. x. p. 29. The STRIPE-THROATED SIVA. 



Head fully crested, dull orange ; lores dull white, mottled with black bases ; 

 cheeks black, the feathers tipped with whitish ; a whitish ring round the eye. 

 Above slaty, shaded with greenish ; wing coverts the same ; the greater series 

 olivaceous yellow, and the primary coverts black, forming a wing patch ; quills 

 black, edged with yellow, scarlet or deep orange ; secondaries tipped with olive ; 

 the innermost black, the outer webs lavender grey tipped with black ; tertiaries 

 lavender grey tipped with white ; a patch of black on the inner web, and a' 

 subterminal spot of the same colour ; tail feathers black, tipped with yellowish 

 white, the middle ones chestnut at base of the inner web, the remainder edged 

 with yellow on both webs, the black at the base of the feathers increasing 

 in extent towards the centre feathers ; chin yellow ; throat white, varied 

 with transverse dark markings; under surface of the body and under tail 

 coverts yellow, the sides washed with olive ; under wirig coverts and axillaries 

 white, washed with yellow ; lower mandible horny ; feet dull grey ; iris 

 brownish red. 



Length. b'i to 6*25 ; wings 2*7; tail 2-75 ; tarsus 0*95 ; culmen O'6. 



Hab. r Y\\Q whole range of the Himalayas to Assam and Sikkim. It is 

 recorded from Nepaul, the hills near Mussoorie, Darjeeling, Assam and 

 Sikkim. In Sikkim, according to Jerdon, it is tolerably common, frequenting 

 forests from 3,000 to 7,000 feet. It goes in large flocks, keeping at a 

 moderate height on trees, where, under the leaves, it searches for insects 

 which are its chief food. Sharpe says, from the specimens in the British 

 Museum Collection, that N.-W. Himalayan forms are decidedly paler than 

 Nepaulese birds, but my collection of the species from Pethoragurh and 

 Kumaon does not show this. 



661. Siva castaneicauda, Hume, Sir. F. 1877, p. 100; id. and 



Dav., Str. F. 1878, i. p. 376; Hume, Sir. F. 1879, p. 104; Oates, B. Br. 

 Burm. p, 145. Leiothrix Strigula (nee Hodgs), Wald. in BlytVs B. Burm. 

 p. 1 10 ; War dlaw- Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 464. The CHESTNUT-TAILED or 

 ORANGE-HEADED SIVA. 



