NOTES ON INDIAN TIMELIIDES AND TREIR ALLIES. 53 



Family — SiBiiD^. 



Sexes similar ; nostrils exposed ; habits strictly arboreal ; size 

 medium ; wing moderately long ; legs and feet not particularly strong 

 (this last characteristic should remove them from the Timeliides). 



Family — LiOTRiCHiDiE. 



Sexes dissimilar ; habits arboreal ; size small ; bill short ; wing 

 and tail about equal (the majority, I think, should be removed from 

 the Timeliides). 



My thanks are due to the British Museum authorities for kindly 

 allowing me to work through their splendid collection of birds, 

 these notes being practically based on specimens in the Natural 

 History Museum. My thanks are especially due to Mr. W. R. 

 Ogilvie-Grant for his advice and assistance, more especially in 

 working out many of the complicated keys. My thanks are also due 

 to the Hon'ble Walter Rothschild and Dr. E. Hartert for allowing 

 me to work through their valuable collection at Tring and for for- 

 warding numerous species for comparison. 



To Mr. E.G. Stuart Baker my thanks are due for many valuable 

 notes and suggestions and to Mr. N. B. Kinnear for his assistance 

 in preparing the manuscript for the press. Finally, I miist apologise 

 for the incompleteness of these notes ; this is due in some cases to 

 the want of material, and also to the fact that the notes have been 

 made at home and put together out in India, where I have no books 

 to assist or correct any mistakes which may have crept in. 



My hope is, however, poor and wanting these notes may be, they 

 will be of assistance to others. 



I shall be extremely obliged if members will kindly point out any 

 mistakes, and more especially if they will let me have any notes on 

 this most interesting group of Indian birds. Very little is known 

 about the plumage of the J'oung of the Timeliides, which appear to be 

 very like that of the adult, but in many cases seem to be slightly 

 different. I, therefore, hope members so situated will collect series 

 of birds and more especially those of the nestlings and young 

 and send them in to the Society's Museum, which is also in want 

 of adalt birds. At some future date, I hope to revise this paper, and 

 so will be extremely obliged if members will kindly point out any 

 mistakes, and more especially if thej^ will let me have or send to the 

 Journal any notes on this most interesting group of Indian birds. 



Peshawar, bth May 1914. H. H. H. 



PAKT II. 



Family — Pakadoxoknithid^. 



Legs and feet very large and strong, wings short, rounded, and 

 fitting close to the body ; sexes alike in plumage ; bill short, stout, 

 and culmen much curved ; nostrils completely hidden by numerous soft 



