104 TUHDIDJE. 



652. Calliope tschebaiewi. The Tibet Ruby-throat . 



Calliope pectoralis, Gould, apud Godw.-Aust. J. A, 8. 12. xxxix, 

 pt. ii, p. 270, xlv, pt. ii, p. 79 ; Anders. Yunnan Exped., Aves, 

 p. G15 ; Hume, 8. F. xi, p. 199. 



Calliope tschebaiewi, Prjev., Rowley's Orn. Misc. ii, p. 180, pi. liv, 

 fig. 1 (1877). 



Erithacus tschebaiewi (Prjev.}, Seebohm, Cat. B. M. v, p. 308. 



Coloration. Male. Differs from the male of C. pectoralis, when 

 adult, in being olive-brown, tinged with russet above, and in 

 having the cheeks white, not black. 



The females and immature birds of both species are inseparable. 



Bill and legs black; iris brown (CocJcburn). 



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

 gape *75. 



Distribution. A winter visitor to the Himalayas from Sikhim to 

 the Dikrang valley in Assam, extending to the Khasi hills, where 

 it is very common at Shillong ; Godwin-Austen procured this 

 species at Mymensing and Anderson near Bhamo. In summer 

 this bird is found in Tibet and Kaiisu. 



Genus TARSIGER, Hodgs., 1844. 



The genus Tarsiger contains one species, in which the sexes 

 resemble each other somewhat closely, and have the whole lower 

 plumage yellow. In structure this genus differs in no respect from 

 Calliope, 



Tarsiger chrysceus is a constant resident at moderate heights on 

 the Himalayas. 



653. Tarsiger chrysaeus. The Golden Busli-RoUn. 



Tarsiger chrysams, Hodgs. P. Z. 8. 1845, p. 28 ; Blyth, Cat. p. 169 ; 

 Horsf. Sf M. Cat. i, p. 310; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 149; Stoliczka, J. A. 

 S. B. xxxvii, pt. ii, p. 45 ; Hume, N. fy E. p. 325 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. 

 M. iv, p. 260 ; Hume, Cat. no. 511 ; Gates in Hume's N. & E. 

 2nd ed. ii, p. 67. 



The Golden Bush-Chat, Jerd. ; Manshil-pho, Lepch. 



Coloration. Male. Forehead, crown, nape, hind neck, and the 

 middle portion of the back olive-green; a superciliary streak 

 reaching to the nape, the lesser wing-coverts, scapulars,' sides of 

 the back, the rump, the upper tail-coverts, and the whole lower 

 plumage bright orange-yellow, many of the feathers more or less 

 fringed very narrowly with brown ; median and greater coverts 

 and the quills black, margined with olive-green ; tail orange- 

 yellow, broadly tipped with black, the median pair of feathers 

 black, with a yellow margin on the outer webs ; lores, round the 

 eye, and the ear-coverts black. 



Female. The whole upper plumage and the exposed parts of the 



