246 CRATEllOPODID^E. 



scapulars, and upper tail-coverts uniform vinaceous brown ; the 

 crimson on the wing is replaced by pinkish white and on the tail 

 by pale red. 



The young bird of both sexes is probably like the female till the 

 first autumn moult. 



Legs and feet grey-brown to greenish leaden, with a wax-yellow 

 tinge on toes (sometimes extending to the tarsi), more decided in 

 males than in females ; soles wax-yellow ; upper mandible and tip 

 of lower blackish brown ; rest of lower mandible horny-grey or 

 bluish-greenish horny ; iris greyish or brownish white (Hume}. 



Length about 5-5 ; tail 2-2 ; wing 2'5 ; tarsus *85 ; bill from 

 gape '6. 



Distribution. Nepal: Sikhim ; Bhutan ; the Naga hills ; Manipur. 

 Found up to about 9000 feet, 



Habits, $"c. Breeds, according to Hodgson, in Nepal in May and 

 June, constructing a cup-shaped nest of moss in a bushy tree. 

 The eggs are said to be blue, speckled with brownish red. 



Genus LEPTOP(ECILE, Severtzow, 1873. 



The genus Leptopoecile contains one lovely species, which is an 

 inhabitant of Turkestan and has lately been added to the Indian 

 list. 



In Leptopcecile the plumage is very soft and copious. The bill 

 is very slender, straight, sharp-pointed, and entire. The nostrils 

 are covered by a membrane and by some frontal hairs ; the rictal 



Fig. 75. Head of L. s&phice. 



bristles are strong. The head is subcrested, the wings rounded, 

 the tail well-graduated, and the tarsi long. This genus has, in my 

 opinion, no connexion with the Parince and its position seems to be 

 in the Liotrichince. 



259. Leptopcecile sophiae. Stoliczka's Warbler-Tit. 



Leptopoecile sophiae, Sei-ertz. Turk. Jcvotn. pp. 66, 135, pi. viii, figs. 8, 9 

 (1873) ; Scully, S. F. iv, p. 153 ; Siddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 37 ; 1882, 

 p. 280 ; Scully, Ibis, 1881, p. 567 ; Gadotv, Cat. B. M. viii, p. 86. 



Stoliczkana stoliczkae, Hume, S. F. ii, p. 513 (1874). 



Coloration. Male. Forehead and a broad supercilium dull 

 yellowish white ; lores dark brown ; crown chestnut, the tips of 

 the feathers more or less suffused with cobalt-blue ; sides of the 



