218 CERTHIID^E. 



Above dark slaty blue ; crown of the head and part of the sides of the 

 neck glossy black ; quills brown ; central pair of tail feathers like the back, 

 the others black with greyish tips and with white subterminal patches to the 

 inner web ; under wing coverts sooty black ; flanks, abdomen and under 

 tail coverts rich chestnut red ; sides of the head, orbital region and the whole 

 of the foreneck and breast white. Bill dark horny ; lighter at base of man- 

 dible ; legs dark lead colour. 



Length* 5 inches; wing 3 ; tail 1*7; tarsus o 75 ; culmen O'8. 



Hab. N.-W. Himalayas and Cashmere (Gilgit 10,000 feet, and Astor 

 io ; ooo feet). 



722. Sitta forinosa, Biyth, J. A. S. B. xii. p. 938; id., Cat. P. 



Mus. As. Soc. p. 189; Jerd., B. Ind. i. p. 387, No. 252 ; Sclater, Ibis, 1865, 

 p. 308; Gadow, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii. p. 357. Callisitta formosa, Sundcv., 

 Av. Meth. Tent. p. 47. The BEAUTIFUL NUTHATCH. 



Above black, variegated with different shades of blue, streaked with 

 cobalt blue on the head and with azure blue on the back, and with whitish 

 mixed with lavender on the sides of the neck ; shoulders, lesser wing coverts, 

 scapulars, lower back, rump and upper tail coverts verdigris blue ; greater 

 wing coverts and tertiaries black ; quills black, the lower and secondary quills 

 margined and tipped with white or pale-bluish white ; primaries with narrow 

 blue edgings ; tail feathers black, edged on the outer web with blue, except 

 the central pair, which are edged with whitish ; under wing coverts and 

 edge of wing black, the edge with a white patch ; under surface of the body 

 light rusty fulvous, paler on the breast and throat. Bill dark horn ; legs 

 greenish horny ; soles yellow ; irides dark brown. 



Length. 6 to 7 inches ; wing 3-95 ; tail 2-3 ; tarsus 0-85 ; culmen 0-83. 



Hal. Sikkim, in the higher mountains only. Has been obtained at 

 Darjeeling. 



723. Sitta frontaliS (Swains.), Horsf., Tr. Lin. Soc. xii. p 162 ; 

 Vt'g.y Mem. -Raffl., p. 670; Tick. J. A. S. Beng. ii. p. 579; McLelL, P. Z. S. 

 1839, P- l6 5 J Oates, B. Br. Burm, i. p. 134; Gadow, Cat. B. Br., Mus. viii. 

 p. 358. Orthorhynchus frontalis, Swains,, Zool.Ill. ist Ser., pi. 2. Dendro- 

 phila frontalis, Swains,, Classif. B. ii. p. 318; Jerd., Mad.Journ. xi. p. 218; 

 Blyth y J. A.S.Beng.xvi. p. 580; Mason, Burmah, p. 280; Jerd., B. Ind.'i. 

 p. 388, No. 253 ; id., Ibis, 1872, p. 21 ; Holdsworth, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 435 ; 

 Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. B. i. p. 161 ; Legge, Ibis, 1874, p. 16 ; Ball, Str. 

 F. 1874, p. 397 ; Kourdillon, Str. F. 1876, p. 393 ; Fairbank, Str. F. 1877, 

 p. 399; Hume and Dav., Str. F. 1878, p. 201 ; Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 560; 

 Hume, Str. F. 1879, P- 459- Dendrophila corallina (Rich.), Hume, S/r. 

 F. 1874, p. 473; 1875, p. 89; Sharpe, Str. F. 1876,^436; Anders., Zool. 

 Exped, Yunnan, p. 633. The VELVET-FRONTED BLUE-NUTHATCH. 



