SITTA. 217 



719. Sitta castaneoventris, Frank!., P. z. s. 1831, p. 121 ; 



, and Selby, III. Orn. iii. pi. 145 ; Gould, B. Asia, pi. 9; Jerd.,B.Ind.\. 

 p. 386, No. 250; Beavan, Ibis, 1869, p. 424 ; Gadow, Cat. B. Br. Mus. viii. 

 p. 351. Sitta castaneiventris, Bp. C. A. i. p. 227; Hume, Sir. F. 1878, 

 p. 209. The FERRUGINOUS-BELLIED NUTHATCH. 



Above slaty blue, lighter on the head and neck ; a black stripe from the 

 nostrils through the eye along the sides of the neck ; lores, cheeks, chin and 

 upper throat white ; ear coverts and part of the sides of the neck black ; quills 

 blackish, edged exteriorly with slaty blue and margined on the inner web with 

 white ; central pair of tail feathers and outer web of the rest slaty blue, the 

 outermost with a subterminal white patch on the inner web ; under wing 

 coverts black, a patch of white at the base of the primaries ; under surface of 

 the body (except the throat which is white) deep cinnamon chestnut ; under 

 tail coveris bluish grey. Bill horny black, paler at base ; legs plumbeous ; iris 

 brown. 



Length. 5 to 575 inches; wing 2-85 to 3 ; tail 1-5 ; tarsus 0*7; culmen 

 075. 



Hal The N.-W. Himalayas, extending into the jungles of Central India. 

 Jerdon gives Central and Southern India, from the extreme south, to 

 Rajmahal and Mirzapore. Rare in the damp forests of Malabar ; not so, 

 however, in the Wynaad, and on the Neilgherry slopes and Mysore. 



720. Sitta cinnamomeiventris, Blyih, J. A. S. B. xi. p. 459. 



Sitta castaneoventris, Hodgs. in Gray's ZooL Misc. p. 82. Sitta cinnamomei- 

 ventris, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 93 ; Jerd., B. Ind. i. p. 387, No. 251 ; Hume 

 Sir. F- 1879, p. 263. The CINNAMON-BELLIED NUTHATCH. 



Above ashy plumbeous, lighter on the head and neck ; chin and lores white, 

 also the cheeks ; neck, breast, abdomen, and lower tail coverts deep bright 

 cinnamon chestnut in the male, dull rusty in the female ; eye streak from 

 the nostrils black ; under tail coverts grey at base, broadly edged with cinnamon 

 brown, each feather with a conspicuous white terminal spot; tail feathers 

 deep black, tipped with grey, and a subterminal white patch ; central feathers 

 like the back ; throat cinnamon brown. 



Length. 575 inches; wing 3 to 3*1 ; tail 175; culmen 0'8 to 0*9. The 

 female has all the under parts vinous brown, or fawn colour. 



Hab. Himalayas, and the Burmese countries. Recorded from Nepaul, 

 Darjeeling, Bhootan, Tonghoo and Bhamo. Jerdon says he found it in 

 Sikkim. 



721. Sitta leUCOpSiS, Gould, P. Z. S. 1849, P !I 3; #., B. Asia i. 

 pi. 10; Jerd., B. Ind. i. p. 585; jfcrd., Ibis, 1872, p. 2O ; Scully ', Ibis, 

 1 88 1, p. 655. The WHITE-FACED NUTHATCH. 



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