20(3 CHATEROPOJJIILE. 



with \\hito shafts ; tail blackish brown, the outermost feathers 

 broadly tipped with white, the next less so, aud the middle pair 

 entirely blackish; lores grey; a very short supercilium, originating 

 just over the eye, white ; ear-coverts chestnut with whitish shafts ; 

 lower plumage very pale fulvous white ; under tail-coverts brown 

 tipped with white ; under wing-coverts pale fulvous white. 



Legs and feet orange-brown ; bill brown ; iris brown (Hume). 



Length nearly 5'5 ; tail 2-2 ; wing 2-4 ; tarsus '65 ; bill from 

 gape -5. 



Distribution. The Giiro, Khasi, and Niiga hills ; Manipur. I 

 gather from God win- Austen's remarks (I. c.) that he procured this 

 species in the Daphla hills also. Hume observed it in Manipur at 

 elevations above 5000 feet. 



217. StapMdia rufigenis. Hume's Staphidia. 



Ixulus striatus, Blyth, apudJerdon, B. I. ii, p. 260 ; Blanf. J. A. S. B. 



xli, pt. ii, p. 166. 



Ixulus rufigeuis, Hume, S. F. v, p. 108 (1877). 

 Staphidea plumbeiceps, Godwin- Austen, A. M. N. H. (4 ) xx, p. 519 



(1877) ; id. J. A. S. B. xlvii, pt. ii, pp. 19, 21 ; Hume, S. F. vii, 



p. 143 ; id. Cat. no. 624 ter ; id. S: F. xi, p. 252. 

 Staphidea rufigenis (Hume), Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xlvii, pt. ii, 



p. 21 j Hume, Cat. no. 625 ter; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 617. 

 The Striated Flower-pecker, Jerd. 



Coloration. Forehead, crest, and nape grey, with pale shafts ; 

 upper plumage and visible portions of wings greenish brown, the 

 shafts of the back, scapulars, and tertiaries white ; tail dark blackish 

 brown, the outermost pair of feathers broadly tipped white, the 

 next less so, and the median pair without any white ; a short grey 

 supercilium reaching to the middle of the upper edge of the ear- 

 coverts, and above this a rufous baud fusing posteriorly with the 

 ear-coverts, which are chestnut with white shafts ; lores grey ; 

 cheeks white, narrowly barred with black; lower plumage white 

 tinged with very pale fulvous, the sides of the neck, breast, and 

 body more or less suffused with olivaceous ; under tail-coverts 

 brown, broadly tipped with white ; under wing-coverts pale fulvous 

 white. 



Iris reddish brown; legs umber (Godw.-Aust.). 



Length 5*5; tail 2*3; wing 2-4; tarsus *7 ; bill from gape '55. 



Distribution. Sikhim ; the Bhutan doars ; Sadiya and Brahma- 

 khund in the Dibrugarh district of Assam. 



218. StapMdia striata. TiclceWs Staphidia. 



Ixulus striatus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxviii, p. 413 (1859) ; Hume, S. F. 



v, p. 107 ; Hume # Dav. S. F. vi, p. 374. 

 Pycnonotus nanus, Tickett, J. A. S. B. xxviii, p. 452 (1859). 

 Staphidea striata (Blyth), Blyth $ Wald. Birds Burm. p. 110 ; Godw.- 



