OLIGUHA. 1WJ 



it*) <jr. Found in brushwood on the ground. According to 

 Hodgson this bird constructs a huge globular nest of green moss 

 and black moss-roots in a thick bush. The eggs, three or four in 

 number, are figured as being white speckled with bright red. They 

 measure '72 by -54. 



Genus OLIGURA, Hodgs., 1845. 



The genus Oliyura resembles Tesia in many respects, but differs 

 in two important particulars. In the first place Oliyura has the 

 bill comparatively slender and narrow, and in the second it has the 

 sexes alike in plumage. 



The only species of this genus found in India inhabits the higher 

 ranges of the Himalayas and the hill-tracts of Assam. 



202. Oligura castaneicoronata. The Chestnut-headed Short-wing. 

 Sylvia ? castaneo-coronata, Jturton, P. Z. S. 1835. p. 152. 



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Gates in Hume's N. 8f E. 2nd ed. i, p. 132. 

 The Chestnut-headed Wren, Jerd. ; 7m, Nepal; Samtit-pho, Lepch. 





Fig. 58. Bill of 0. castaneicoronata. 



Coloration. Forehead, crown, nape, lores, ear-coverts, and a line 

 under the eye bright chestnut ; a small patch of white feathers at 

 the posterior corner of the eye ; cheeks, chin, throat, breast, and 

 abdomen bright yellow, the breast suffused with olivaceous and 

 mottled with a few indistinct brown bars ; sides of breast, abdomen, 

 and under tail-coverts olivaceous ; upper plumage, wings, and tail 

 dark olive-green. 



The young bird has the entire upper plumage, sides of the head, 

 the wings, and tail dark olive-green ; the whole lower plumage 

 dull chestnut, tinged with yellow on the abdomen. 



Bill brownish yellow ; legs yellow ; iris red in some birds, brown 

 in others (Cockburn). 



Distribution. Nepal ; Sikhim ; the Khasi hills. Jerdon gives the 

 range of this bird from 3000 to 6000 feet, but Blanford says it is 

 common in Sikhim from 7000 to 10,000 feet. Godwin-Austen 

 procured it at 7000 feet on Hengdan peak, Khasi hills. 



Habits, fyc. According to God win-Austen this bird haunts thick and 

 low brushwood and is difficult to shoot in such cover ; it emits a loud 



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