200 CJlATEllOPO.Dl.DJi. 



Habits, fyc. Hume states that this bird creeps about the branches 

 of large trees in forest, very much like a Creeper, though neither 

 quite so rapid nor so jerky in its movements. 



209. Lioptila davisoni. Davisons Sibia. 



Leioptila davisoni, Hume, S. F. v, p. 110 (1877). 



Lioptila saturata, Wald., apud Hmnefy Dav. S. F. vi, p. 370; Hume, 



Cat, no. 613 bis; Oates, B. B. i, p. 141 (part); Shat-pe, Cat. B. 



M. vii, p. 80 (part.) ; Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) v, 



p. COO. 



Coloration. Forehead, crown, nape, sides of the head, hind neck, 

 sides of the neck, back, scapulars, and all the wing-coverts deep 

 black, with a few very narrow streaks of white on the middle of the 

 back ; rump deep chestnut ; upper tail-coverts black, with broad 

 maroon tips ; primaries margined with bluish white, except the last 

 two or three, which are plain; secondaries margined with bluish 

 white, except near the base; tertiaries tipped with white, and mar- 

 gined with chestnut on the outer webs near the base ; tail black, 

 the feathers edged with deeper black on the basal halves of their 

 outer webs, and tipped with white, broadly on the outer, and 

 narrowly on the middle feathers ; edge of wing and lower plumage 

 white, except the vent, under tail-coverts, and flanks, which are 

 pale fulvous. 



Upper mandible and half the lower black ; rest of lower man- 

 dible, legs, feet, and claws fleshy yellow; iris greyish brown 

 (Davison). 



Length about 8 ; tail 3'5 ; wing 3*1 ; tarsus -95 ; bill from 

 gape -8. 



This bird cannot be confounded with L. annectens, from which 

 it differs by its black wing-coverts, black back, and maroon rump. 



Distribution. Muleyit mountain in Tenasserim on the higher 

 slopes. 



Habits, fyc. Davison remarks that this bird creeps like a Nut- 

 hatch about the trunks and branches of trees, and also searches the 

 leaves and smaller branches of the tree-tops. 



210. Lioptila pulchella. The Beautiful Sibia. 



Sibia pulchella, Godwin- Austen, A. M. N. H. (4) xiii, p. 160 (1874) ; 



id. J. A. S. B. xliii, pt. ii, p. 164, pi. vii ; xlv, pt. ii, p. 78 ; Hume. 



S. F. iii, p. 281. 

 Malacias pulchellus (Godw.-Aust.), Hume, Cat.no. 429 ter; Sharpe, 



Cat. B. M. vii, p. 407 ; Hume, 'S. F. xi, p. 173. 



Coloration. The whole upper plumage bluish grey, brighter on 

 the head ; median tail-feathers umber-brown, with a subterminal 

 black band and a dark grey tip ; the others with a progressively 

 diminishing amount of umber-brown and an increasing quantity of 

 black till the outermost feathers are wholly black with a grey tip ; 

 smaller wing-coverts bluish grey; greater coverts next the body 

 entirely chocolate-brown, this colour diminishing in extent on the 



