190 CKATEROPODIDJE. 



The young appear to resemble the female from the earliest age. 

 The only species of this genus is non-migratory, and although 

 it is a fairly common bird nothing is on record about its habits. 



]99. Hodgsonius phcenicuroid.es. Hodgson's Short-wing. 



Bradypterus phcenicuroides, Hodgs. in Gray's Zoo/. Misc. p. 83 (1844) 



(desc. nulla) ; Gray, Cat. Mamm. fyc. Nepal, p. 70, A pp. p. 153 



(1846). 

 Sylvania phoenicuroides (SodffS.), Blyth. J. A. S. B. xvi, p. 136; id. 



Cat. p. 178. 

 Hodgsonius phoenicuroides (Hodgs.}, Horsf. fy M. Cat. i, p. 395 ; Jerd. 



B. I. i, p. 497 ; Hume, Ibis, 1870, p. 529 ; Jerd. Ibis, 1872, p. 132 ; 



Hume fy Henders. Lali. to Yark. p. 187, pi. vi ; Hume, Cat. no. 341 ; 



Brooks, S. F. viii, p. 470 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 8]. 

 Dumeticola cyanocarpa, Hume, Ibis, 1872, p. 108 ( $ ) ; id. S. F. 



iii, p. 409 ; vii, p. 461. 

 Callene hodgsoni, Moore, Jerd. Ibis, 1872, p. 132 ; Hume, S. F. iii, 



p. 411 ; id. Cat. no. 339 ter. 

 Schcenicola cyanocarpus (Hume}, Hume, Cat. no. 519 ter. 



The White-bellied Short-iving, Jerd. 



Coloration. Male. The whole body-plumage slaty blue except the 

 abdomen, which is white, and the tail-coverts, which are slaty 

 blue tipped with whitish ; quills dark brown, washed with blue on 

 the outer webs ; tail-feathers blackish suffused with blue, the four 

 outer pairs chestnut on the basal half of both webs, the next pair 

 chestnut on the basal half of the outer web only. 



Female. Upper plumage and wing-coverts olive-brown, the 

 margins of the quills rufous : tail rufous-brown, deeper on the 

 parts which are chestnut in the male ; sides of the head and the 

 lower plumage ochraceous ; the abdomen whitish ; and the lower 

 tail-coverts dark ochraceous wilh pale centres and tips. 



The young resemble the female, and young males assume the full 

 adult plumage in the first autumn. 



Bill dusky, reddish at the gape ; legs pale red-brown ; iris dark 

 brown (Jerdon) ; gape yellow (J. Henderson). 



Length about 7*5; tail 3-2; wing 3; tarsus 1-1; bill from 

 gape -8. 



Distribution. The Himalayas from Gulmurg and Sonamurg in 

 Kashmir to Bhutan. This species appears to be found at the foot 

 of the hills as well as at considerable altitudes. 



Habits, fyc. Appears to frequent thick underwood. 



Genus ELAPHRORNIS, Legge, 1879. 



The genus Elaphrornis contains a single species, which is con- 

 fined to the higher hills of Ceylon. 



It is a rare bird, and materials for forming an opinion as to its 

 position are hardly sufficient. On the whole I am inclined to think 

 that its place is in this subfamily. 



