228 NOTES ON SIKHIM BIRDS. 



Bill livid yellowish-bony, less livid at base, and homy along 

 commissure. Orbital skin deep yellow. In both sexes chin and throat 

 greenish-white, with faint fulvous tinge on lower throat. The rib of 

 each gular feather is prolonged into a black hair. The head, neck, 

 breast, and upper abdomen are dingy fulvous- white, with pale brown 

 edgings to each feather, which edgings, being broader on the forehead, 

 crown, and neck, give to these parts a darker tint than the breast. 

 First and second primaries free from green; they are black, with 

 fulvous borders near the base of the inner web. Mr. Gammie has 

 found it only in the Tarai. 



195. M. asiatica. — The red rictal spot is margined posteriorly 

 with green ; and the band across crown is bordered anteriorly with 

 golden-olive. 



196. M. franklinii. — The first and second primaries have a 

 pale edging on the inner web. The large rictal spot is orange. The 

 narrow blue band fringing the black and crimson of nape extends also 

 obsoletely along margin of throat patch, thus forming a complete ring. 



199. Ouculus canorus.— The bill citrine at base, horny- 

 black at tip and anterior part of culmen ; the rest of the bill is sap-gi'een. 

 Gape and lining of mouth and throat rich deep orange. Legs ochrey. 

 Claws dusky ochrey. Irides pale straw, with orange periphery. The 

 breast bars average seventeen. The under tail coverts in one are 

 almost free from markings. Its Lepchaname, viz., hck-ku, is identical 

 with the Enghsh one. 



202. 0. SOnnerati. — A bird which does not seem to repre- 

 sent the hepatic stage of C. canorus differs somewhat from Jerdon's 

 description of 0. sonnerati. It is a female in May from Labah, 7,000 

 feet, and measures as follows .-—Length 12*4, wing 8'2, bill from 

 front 0"7, from gape 1"15. The colour of bill and gape is similar to 

 C. canorus. The coverts of primaries are barred with rufous like the 

 rest of the back, and all of the feathers on the upper surface, including 

 the quills of wing and tail, and of the under-surface in front of the 

 breast, are narrowly bordered with ashy at their tips. Under-surface 

 from chin white with numerous transverse black bars, about -i-jth of an 

 inch broad. Rump more ashy than rest of upper plumage. Under 

 tail coverts slightly fulvous, with arrow markings. 



205. HieroCOCCyx varius.— Its Lepcha name " BTm-pi-yul " 

 is a good representation of its call. It is the " brain- fever " bird of 



