210 CRATEKOPODJDJE. 



Coloration. Forehead, crown, nape, and hind neck pale blue, the 

 sides of the crown deeper blue, the forehead and the anterior part 

 of the crown streaked with brown ; lores, round the eyes, and a 

 broad streak behind the eye white ; back, scapulars, wing-coverts, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts bright ochraceous ; the median pair 

 of tail-feathers wholly blue, with a subterminal black patch and 

 tipped white ; the next four pairs with the outer webs blue, the 

 inner brown margined with white, subterininfJly black and tipped 

 white ; the outermost pair black on the outer, entirely white on 

 the inner web ; primary wing-coverts black ; winglet cobalt-blue, 

 tipped white: primaries cobalt-blue on the outer webs; secondaries 

 with outer webs margined with pale blue and tipped white ; ter- 

 tiaries blackish on the inner, bluish grey on the outer webs, and 

 tipped white ; ear-coverts, cheeks, sides of the neck, chin, throat, 

 breast, and sides of the body delicate vinous grey ; middle of abdo- 

 men pale yellowish buff ; vent and tinder tail-coverts white. 



Bill grey-horny, brownish about the nostrils, and the base of the 

 lower mandible yellow; iris brown ; feet fleshy; claws horny brown 

 (Scully). 



Length about 6 ; tail 2-6 ; wing 2-4 ; tarsus '9 ; bill from gape '6. 



Distribution. The Himalayas from Naini Tal to the Daphla hills 

 in Assam ; the Khasi and Naga hills; North Cachar; Mauipur ; 

 occurring from 3000 to 6000 feet or even higher. 



Habits^ fyc. Breeds from April to June, constructing a cup-shaped 

 nest of moss lined with leaves, in a fork of a small tree. The 

 eggs, three or four in number, are greenish blue speckled with red 

 and yellowish brown, and measure '75 by -51. 



222. Sivasordida. The Dull Siva. 



Siva cyanouroptera, Hodys., apud Blyth, Birds Burm. p. 110. 



Siva sordida, Hume, S. F. v, p. 104 (1877) ; Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi, 



p. 371 ; Hume, Cat. no. 617 bis j Oates. B. B. i. p. 144 ; Sharpe. 



Cat B. M. vii, p. 641. 



Coloration. Resembles S. cyanuroptera. Differs in having the 

 back, scapulars, wing-coverts, and the outer webs of the tertiaries 

 earth-brown, not ochraceous ; the winglet is not tipped with white, 

 nor have the quills of the wing either white tips or white margins ; 

 the blue portions of the plumage are much duller. 



Lower mandible, legs, feet, and claws whity brown ; upper man- 

 dible darker, but still pale brown ; iris creamy yellow (Hume $ 

 Davison). 



Of the same size as S. cyanuroptera. 



Distribution. Karennee ; the higher slopes of Muleyit mountain 

 in Tenasserim. 



This species also occurs on the mountains near Perak in the 

 Malay peninsula. 



