876 BIKDS OCCURRING IN INDIA NOT DESCRIBED 



318 bis.— Siphia minuta, Hume. 



Dimensions. — Lengthy 4 ; wing, 2'2; tail, 1'77'j tarsus, 07 ; 

 mid toe and claw, 0'56 ; hind toe and claw, 0'5 ; bill at front, 

 0-25. 



Description. — Bill blackish brown, fleshy on lower surface of 

 lower mandible ; legs and feet very pale fleshy brown. Plu- 

 mage : Upper surface a very rich olive-brown, slightly tinged 

 with rufous on the back, more conspicuously so on the rump ; 

 tail dull rufous ; quills hair-brown, narrowly margined with 

 dull rufous ; chin, upper part of throat, wing-lining, flanks, 

 and lower tail-coverts pure pale buff ; lower portion of throat, 

 and lower portion of abdomen and vent white ; sides of neck, 

 breast and upper abdomen pale dingy brownish fulvous. 



This species closely resembles both Siphia tricolor and the 

 female of Siphia leucomelanura, but is decidedly distinct from 

 either ; it has no white about the tail, and differs from all the 

 Siphice and Eryth roster nee which I possess, as well as from 

 Anthipes moniliger. The specimen was shot by Mr. William 

 Masson on Mount Tonghoo, in Sikhim. — Hume, " Ibis, 1872 

 109." 



323 ter.— Erythrosterna hyperythra, Cab, J. F. 0. 

 1866, 391. 



The upper surface is brownish grey, turning to a purer grey 

 on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; tail black, with the basal 

 halves of the lateral rectrices white ; the upper tail-coverts, 

 especially the longest, are blackish in parts, specially on the 

 outer webs. The lower surface is a bright red brown or rusty 

 red, except on the middle of the abdomen which is pure white. 

 The red brown colour is most intense on the throat and breast, 

 lighter on the contrary and mingled with albescent on the sides 

 of the abdomen and lower tail-coverts. The prevailing hue of 

 the tibial plumes is grey ; the loral region is somewhat dotted 

 with white ; the sides of the head and neck contrast in pure, 

 and not brownish, grey with the upper surface, and are divided 

 from the red brown of throat and breast by an irregular black- 

 ish line ; the under wing-coverts are ^tinged with rusty yellow ; 

 the feet and upper mandible brown ; the lower yellow. 



The fourth quill is the longest ; the fifth longer than the third ; 

 and the second about equal to the eighth. 



Length, 5"33 ; wing, 2-88 ; tail, 33 ; tarsus, 0-78. — Cabanis. 



