170 TIMELIID/E. 



Head and crest orange brown ; upper plumage with wing coverts and 

 winglet slaty green ; lores and feathers round the eye grey, mottled with 

 black ; ear coverts grey with white shafts ; a broad but indistinct supercilium 

 whitish ; a long black moustachial streak ; chin pale orange ; throat pale 

 yellow ; primaries and secondaries dark brown, edged with yellow on the 

 outer web ; the margin tinged with orange red at the base of the second 

 primary, and progressively more so inwards, until the last secondaries have the 

 margins wholly orange red ; the orange margins absent on the greater portion 

 of the last three primaries ; all the secondaries tipped white ; tertiaries black on 

 the inner web and at the tip of the outer web, the remainder of the feather being 

 grey ; tail black, the four outer pairs of feathers broadly edged and tipped 

 with yellow ; the central two pairs merely tipped with yellow, and the inner 

 webs maroon for about five-sixths of their length from the base ; the outer 

 webs partially maroon near the webs ; legs and feet dingy glaucous green ; 

 upper mandible dark brown ; the lower fleshy ; iris deep brown. 



Length. 6 inches ; tail 3; wing 2-8 ; tarsus 1*05 ; bill from gape 075. 



Differs from 6". strigula in having the chestnut colour on the tail much 

 more extended, and the greater portion of both webs of the central tail feathers 

 and inner webs of next feathers pure rich chestnut. 



Hab. Tenasserim. Replaces S. strigula of the Himalayas in Bhootan and 

 the Burmese hills, ranging into Tenasserim. Captain Wardlaw- Ramsay got his 

 specimens on a high mountain in Karennee about forty miles north-east of 

 Shwaygheen at an elevation of 7ooo feet. Mr. Davison obtained it on Moole- 

 yit mountain, where, he says, he usually met with it singly, on the outskirts of the 

 forests among the trees dotted about the grass-land hunting about like a true 

 Tit amongst the leaves and branches. According to Hodgson's notes the 

 nests and eggs of this species is very similar to those of S. cyanuroptera. 



662. Siva cyanuroptera, Hodgs., Ind. Rev. ii. p. 88 ; Gould, 



B. Asia, part xiv. ; Jerd., B. Ind. ii p. 253 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, Indian 

 Birds, p. 393 ; Scully, Str- F. 1879, p. 319. Leiothrix cyanuroptera, Hume, 

 Sir. F. 1879, p. 105. The BLUE-WINGED SIVA. 



Above yellowish brown, slightly rufescent on the lower back and 

 rump, and ashy brown on the hind neck ; forehead washed with cyaneous, 

 the feathers streaked with dark brown ; wing coverts yellowish brown ; 

 with primaries and their coverts black, the latter forming a wing patch ; 

 primaries edged externally with blue ; secondaries and tertiaries tipped 

 white, their external edges greyish ; tail blackish, tipped with white, the external 

 web of the feathers blue, the centre ones greyish, washed with blue ; outermost 

 feathers white on the inner and black on the outer web, the next edged on 

 the inner web and broadly tipped with white ; lores, feathers round the eye, 

 superciliary streak, centre of breast, abdomen, under wing and under tail 



