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sides of the throat, the centre of the abdomen, vent, and under tail- 

 coverts pure white; lower part of the flanks pale rusty; under 

 wing-coverts white. 



Female. The forehead, crown, nape, and sides of the head bluish 

 greVj the ear-coverts with paler shafts, the lores and round the 

 eye more or less dusky ; indications of a white supercilium, very 

 ill-defined ; upper plumage olive-grey ; smaller wing-coverts 

 black edged with yellowish ; greater coverts yellow on the outer 

 webs, black on the inner ; primary-coverts and wioglet black ; the 

 earlier primaries edged with hoary grey, the other quills edged with 

 yellow ; tertiaries chestnut ; central tail-feathers green, the others 

 black, with the greater portion of the outer webs green and tipped 

 yellow ; lower plumage entirely pale buff. 



The young resemble the female, and the male assumes the adult 

 plumage in the September of the first year. 



Legs and feet fleshy, in some pinker, in some whiter ; claws a 

 darker or paler brown ; soles yellowish ; lower mandible and edges 

 of upper from gape to below nares pale blue or plumbeous ; rest 

 of upper mandible black, occasionally horny black ; irides gre.yish 

 lavender, deep grey, deep blue-grey, greenish grey, grey-blue, pearly 

 blue-grey, pale green speckled with white, and varying a little in 

 every specimen (Hume). Iris amber (Godwin- Austen}. 



Length 6-5 to 8 ; tail about 2-5 ; wing 3-3 ; tarsus 1-1 ; bill from 

 gape -85. 



Distribution. The Himalayas from the Hazara country to Assam ; 

 the Khasi and Ntiga hills ; Manipur. From 2500 (Jerdori) to 

 10,000 feet (Stoliczka). 



Habits, <Sfc. Breeds in May, constructing a cradle-like nest of 

 moss and hair in a fork of a branch near the top of a high tree. 

 The eggs, usually three in number, are whitish speckled with 

 brownish red and purple. One egg measured '9 by '68. 



238. PterutMus aeralatus. TickeWs Shrike-Tit. 



Pteruthius aeralatus, Tick. J. A. S. B. xxiv, p. 267 (1855) ; Anders. 



Yunnan Exped., Aves, p. 628, pi. xlvii ; Hume # Dav. S. F. vi, 



p. 368; Hume, Cttt.no. 6 10 bis; Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 



(2) v, p. 599. 



Pterythrius aeralatus, Tick., Blyth fy Wald. Birds Burm. p. 109. 

 Ptererythrius seralatus, Tick., Oates, B. B. i, p. 137 ; Gadoiv, Cat. 



B. M. viii ; p. 114. 



Coloration. Eesembles P. erythropterus. The male differs in 

 having the tertiaries golden yellow, tinged with red internally and 

 tipped black ; the lower plumage much greyer, the lower part of 

 the abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts alone being white. 



The female differs in having the tertiaries green, tipped with 

 chestnut, and the back grey. 



Legs and feet fleshy white; claws pale brown to black; lower 

 mandible and basal edges of the upper mandible along commissure 

 pale blue ; rest of bill black ; iris varied considerably, slaty-grey, 

 pale greenish blue, and deep brown (Hume fy Davison}. 



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