226 CRATEBOPODID.E. 



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

 gape *85. 



Distribution. The Kakhyen hills east of Bhamo ; Karennee and 

 the Karen hills east of Toungngoo ; Muleyit mountain in Teiias- 

 serim ; also the mountains of Perak in the Malay peninsula. 



Count Salvadori (1. c.) has shown that his P. cameanoi from 

 Sumatra is distinct from the present species. 



239. Pteruthius melanotis. The Chestnut-throated Shrike-Tit. 



Pteruthius melanotis, Hodgs. J. A. S, B. xvi, p. 448 (1847) ; Oates 



in Humes N. Sf E. 2nd ed. i, p. 161. 



Pteruthius senobarbus (Temm.), apud Horsf. 8f M. Cat, i, p. 172. 

 Allotrius senobarbus, Temm., apud Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 246 (part.); Godw.- 



Aust. J. A. S. B. xxxix, pt. ii, p. 108. 

 Allotrius melanotis (Hodgs.), Hume, N. $ E. p. 390 j Hume 8f Dav. 



S. F. vi, p. 369 j Hume, S. F. vii, p. 456; id. Cat. no. 611 j id. S. F. 



xi, p. 244. 

 Ptererythrius melanotis (Hodge.), Oates, B. B. i, p. 139 ; Gadoiv, Cat. 



B. M. viii, p. 117. 



Ku-er-pho, Lepch. 



Coloration. Male. The forehead, crown, back, scapulars, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts greenish yellow ; a ring of white feathers 

 round the eye ; ear-coverts yellow ; a spot on each side of the 

 neck behind the ear-coverts black ; the whole nape between these 

 black spots bluish ashy ; a broad superciliutn bluish white ; lores, 

 continued in two lines, one over the eye and one below, meeting 

 behind the eye, black ; chin and throat deep chestnut, extending 

 down to the upper part of the breast ; remaining lower plumage 

 bright yellow ; middle tail-feathers green, tipped with black ; the 

 next four pairs black, tipped with white, the tips increasing in size 

 towards the outside of the tail ; the outermost feathers wholly 

 white; wings brown, edged with bluish grey; the tertiaries wholly 

 bluish grey, and all the quills except the earlier primaries tipped 

 with white ; lesser wing-coverts black, edged with grey ; greater 

 coverts black, broadly tipped with white ; primary-coverts and 

 winglet black. 



Female. Resembles the male closely ; differs in having the tips 

 to the greater wing-coverts salmon-colour instead of white ; the 

 chestnut of the throat restricted and not descending to the breast ; 

 and in having the lores and the ophthalmic lines pale brown instead 

 of black. 



The young resemble the female, but the upper plumage is olive- 

 brown, and the grey nape and black lines on the sides of the head 

 are wanting ; the lower plumage is yellowish white. All the cha- 

 racteristic wing-marks are present from the earliest age. 



Bill plumbeous ; iris light- brown ; legs and feet fleshy white 

 (Chennell). 



Length about 4-7; tail 1*8 ; wing 2*5; tarsus *8; bill from 

 gape -55. 



Distribution. The Himalayas from Nepal to Assam ; the Khasi 



