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Key — (ii). 



Locality 



Colour of the 

 under parts. 



Upper plumage. 



Eead 



Wings . . 



cyanuroptera. 



Himalayas to 

 the Chin 



Hills. 



Grey, with a 

 vinous tinge. 



Bright ochrace- 



Blue, stripes 

 very distinct 



Primaries edged 

 dark blue, the 

 ■secondurieb 

 edged light 

 blue and 

 tipped lohUe, 



loingatei. 



Yunnan, 

 Bhamo Hills 

 and Shan 



States. 



Grey with a 

 vinous tinge. 



Olive-brown 

 with a fulvous 

 tinge. 



Blue, stripes 

 very distinct 



Primariesedged 

 dark blue, the 

 secondaries 

 edged light 

 .blue but not 

 tipped with 

 white. 



Byingyi Mt. 



White. 



sordida. 



Tenasserim 



White. 



sordidior. 



Olive-brown j Dusky earthy 

 with a fulvous brown 

 tinge. 



Blue, stripes 

 indistinct. 



The edging of 

 the primaries 

 and seconda- 

 ries the same, 

 a dark blue. 



Blue, stripes 

 indistinct. 



The same as 



The Malay 

 Peninsula. 



White. 



Dull sooty' 

 brown. 



Sooty-b r o w n . 

 stripes obso' 

 lete. 



Siva cyantjbopiera cyanueoptera, Hodgson. 



Hodgson's Blue-winged Siva. 



Hodgsoc, Ind. Rev., 1838, p. 88 : Sharpe, Cat., B. M., vii., p. 640 ; Gates, 

 F. B. I., i., p. 209. 



Description. — Lores, round the eye, andashortsupercilium, white; feathers 

 of forehead and crown, w^ith black shafts and whitish edges, the whole 

 washed with blue, some specimens show the white markings on the forehead 

 more distinctly than others, which have a very blue appearance ; nape blue ; 

 the stripes above the eye more pronounced and bluer ; upper-back tinged 

 with bluish or lavender-grey ; lower-back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 bright , fulvous tinged with ochraceous, brightest on the rump and upper 

 tail-coverts ; middle tail feather slaty-grey, edged with blue on the outer 

 web, a subterminal black band and tipped with white ; the next four pairs 

 of feathers with outer web blue, the inner margined with white ; the outer- 

 most pair margined black and entirely white on the inner web ; primary 

 coverts black ; winglet cobalt-blue, and tipped white ; primaries cobalt-blue 

 on the outer web ; secondaries pale blue on the outer web, and tipped white ; 

 tertiaries black on the inner web, and fulvous changing to lavender-grey on 

 the outer edge, and tipped icliite ; chin, throat, breast, ear-coverts' and sides 

 of the head, vinous-grey ; flanks darker and tinged with buff ; under tail- 

 coverts white. Wing 62-64 mm., tail 68 mm., tarsus 25 mm., culmen 12 

 mm. 



Note. — Birds from the Chin and Naga Hills are slightly larger than 

 Himalayan ones, and are much bluer on the head, and have much less 

 white on the inner webs of the tail feathers, and more fulvous on the ter- 

 tiaries. Wing, 65-70 mm. 



"Bill, grey-horny, brownish about the nostrils, and the base of the lower 

 mandible, yellow; iris, brown; feet, fleshy." (Gates.) 



Distribution. — The Himalayas from Naini Tal to Assam, Manipur, the 

 Naga and Chin Hills. 



Habitat and Nesting. — [The blue-winged Siva builds a nest which is a 

 small, neat edition of that of Liothrix lutea ; that is to say it is a small cup 

 made of leaves, grasses, moss and roots, lined with very fine roots and fine 



