SIVA. 200 



black; remaining lowor plumage bright yellow, tinged will) oliva- 

 ceous on the sides of the breast and abdomen. 



The young appear to have the crown light golden yellow inter- 

 mingled with grey, and to have the bars on the throat less deve- 

 loped. 



L T p>er mandible dark brown ; lower mandible light greyish 

 brown; tip white; legs and feet grey; claws light brown ; iris 

 dark reddish-brown (Hume). 



Length about 6-5 ; tail 2-9 ; wing 2-75 ; tarsus 1 ; bill from 

 gape '8. 



Distribution. The Himalayas from the Sutlej valley to the Daphla 

 hills in Assnm; also in the Khasi hills; found from 3000 to 

 10,000 feet of elevation. 



Habits, $c. Found in flocks on trees. According to Hodgson 

 this bird makes a cup-shaped nest of moss and bamboo-leaves in a 

 fork of a tree in May and June. The eggs are three or four in 

 number, pale bluish speckled with red, and measure about *85 

 by -63. 



220. Siva castaneicauda. Hume's Siva. 



Liothrix strigula (Hotlys.), apud Wald. in Blyttis Birds Sunn. 



p. 110; Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 464. 

 Siva castaneicauda, Hume, S. F. v, p. 100 (1877) ; Hume 8f Dav. 



S. F. vi, p. 371 ; Hume, Cat. no. (316 his ; Oates, B. B. i, p. 145 ; 



Sharpe, Cat. S. M. vii, p. 639 ; Salvador*, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 



(2) v, p. G01. 



Coloration. Eesembles S. striyula. Differs in having more red 

 on the tail, the basal five sixths of the middle pair of feathers, 

 the basal three quarters of the inner webs, and. the basal half 

 of the outer webs of the next pair being chestnut-red ; the ring of 

 feathers round the eye is of a brighter yellow and the sides of the 

 head are blackish ; the bill is also much larger. 



Legs and feet dingy glaucous green ; the upper mandible dark 

 brown, the lower fleshy ; the iris deep brown {Hume). 



Of about the same size as S. striyula. 



Distribution. Bhutan ; the hills east of Toungngoo ; Muleyit 

 mountain in Tenasseriin. This bird appears to occur only at con- 

 siderable elevations. 



It has been obtained on the mountains of Perak in the Malay 

 peninsula. 



221. Siva cyanuroptera. The Bluer-winged Siva. 



Siva cyanouroptera, Hodys. Ind. Rev. 1838, p. 88; Jerd. B. I. ii, 

 p. 253 ; Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xxxix, pt. ii, p. 109 ; Hume, N. 

 8f E. p. 393 ; Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xlv, pt. ii, p. 82 ; Hume, 

 Cat. no. 617; Scully, S. F. viii, p. 319; Sliarpe, Cat. B. M. vii, 

 p. 640; Hume, 8. F. xi, p. 248; Gates in Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. 

 i, p. 138. 



I,ci<>thrix cyanouroptera (Horff/s.), Blyth, Cat. p. 99 ; Ilorsf. fy M. 

 Cat. i, p. 366. 



T/if Blue-winycd Hill- Tit, Jerd.; Meyblim adum, Lepch. 

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