208 CRATEROPODID.E. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Primaries edged with orange. 



'. Middle pair of tail-feathers chestnut-red 



on the basal half of the inner and the 



basal third of the outer webs S. strigula, p. 208. 



b'. Middle pair of tail-feathers chestnut-red 



on the basal five sixths of both webs . . S, castaneicauda, p. 209. 



b. Primaries edged with blue. 



c'. Wings tipped with white S. cyanuroptera, p. 209. 



d'. Wings not tipped with white 8. sordida, p. 210. 



219. Siva strigula. The Stripe-throated Siva. 



Siva strigula, Hodgs. Ind. Rev. 1838, p. 89 j Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 252 ; 



Stoliczka, J. A. 6'. B. xxxvii, pt. ii, p. 50 j Godiv.-Aust. J. A. S. B. 



xxxix, pt. ii, p. 109; Blanf. J. A. S. B. xli, pt. ii, p. 45; Hume, 



N. 8f E. p. 392 ; Brooks, S. F. in, p. 252 ; Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. 



xlv, pt. ii, p. 81 ; Hume, Cat. no. 616; Scully, S. F. viii, p. 319 ; 



Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 638 ; Oates in Hume's N. Sf E. 2nd ed. 



i, p. 137. 

 Leiothrix strigula (Hodg*.\ Blyth, Cat. p. 99 ; Horsf. fy M. Cat. i, 



p. 365. 



The Stripe-throated Hill-Tit, Jerd. ; Megblim, Lepeli. 



Fig, 61. Head of 8. strigula. 



Coloration. Forehead, crown, and nape bright orange-brown; 

 a ring of yellowish feathers round the eye ; sides of the head grey, 

 mottled with whitish and dusky ; upper plumage slaty green ; 

 middle pair of tail-feathers, with the basal half of the inner and 

 the basal third of the outer web, chestnut-red, the remainder black, 

 narrowly tipped white ; the next pair black, with some trace of 

 chestnut-red at base and tipped with yellow ; the other feathers 

 with an increasing amount of yellow and a diminishing amount 

 of black, the outermost feathers being almost entirely yellow ; 

 wing-coverts and winglet like the back ; primary-coverts black ; 

 primaries and secondaries black, the outer webs edged with orange 

 changing to yellow near the tips, the later secondaries narrowly 

 tipped with white ; tertiaries chiefly slaty grey on the outer webs 

 and entirely black on the inner, tipped white ; chin orange-yellow ; 

 throat pale yellow, with narrow crescentic black cross bars ; a 

 narrow moustachial stripe and a patch on the side of the neck 



