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of its under plumage, which is white, while in S, c. loingatei these parts are 

 pale grey with a vinous tinge. 



Habited.— Byingji Mountain. 



Type in the British Museiun : Adult. Mt. Byingyi, iii., 94. " E. W. Gates' 

 coll." (Harington). 



Siva cyanukoptera soedida.,* Hume, 



The Dull Siva. 



Siva sordida, Hume. St. F., v., p. 104 (1877) ; Sharpe, Cat., B. M., vii., p. 

 641 ; Gates, F. B. I., i., p. 210. 



Description. — " Resembles S. C. cyanuroptera. Differs in having the back, 

 scapulars, wing-coverts, and the outer edge of the tertiaries earth-brown, 

 not ochraceous ; the loinglet is not tipped ivith loliite, nor have the quills of 

 the doings either lohite tips or white margins ; the blue portions of the plumage 

 are much duller." (Gates.) 



" Lower mandible, legs, feet and claws whity-brown ; upper mandible 

 darker, but still pale brown ; iris creamy-white." (Gates.) 



There is only one specimen, the type, from Tenasserim, in the Museum, 

 this has the whole under plumage white instead of vinous-grey, the upper 

 back washed with dusky blue, and the inner web of only the ovitermost tail 

 feather white, the others only tipped with white. The secondaries edged 

 the same colour as the primaries, and not pale blue. Type, male : wing, 

 62 mm.; tail, 68 mm.; tarsus, 25 mm.; culmen, 14 mm. 



Habitat. — Muleyit Mt., Tenasserim. 



LioPARUS, Gates, 1889, 



" Lioparus differs from Schceniparus and Sittiparus {Fseudominla) by 

 having numerous hairs overhanging the nostrils, and from Proparus by its 

 long rictal bristles, which reach nearly to the tip of the bill, by its broader 

 bill, and by its smaller hind claw, which measures much less than the hind 

 toe." ( Gates.) 



It has the following characteristics : wing not particularly rounded, the 

 first three primaries graduated ; wing and tail about equal, the two outer tail 

 feathers only graduated ; nostrils, oval and exposed, and not covered by a 

 membrane ; bill small and broad ; nostrils overhung by numerous small hairs; 

 rictal bristles well developed ; hind toe longer than bill, 



LioPARTJs CHRYS^us, Hodgson, 



The Golden-breasted Lioparus. 



Proparus chrysceus, Hodgson, in Gray's Zool, Misc., p. 84 (1844). 



Alcippe chrysceus, Sharpe, Cat., B. M., vii., p. 627. 



Lioparus chrysceus, Gates, F. B. I., p. 174. 



Description. — Lores, forehead, crown, nape, dull black ; a ring round the 

 eye, cheeks, and ear-coverts, silvery grey : back, dark ashy with a faint olive 

 tinge ; rump and tail-coverts tinged greenish ; tail blackish ; outer edges of 

 basal two-thirds of tail edged orange ; wings blackish, the outer edge of first 

 primaries yellow, inner black ; secondaries broadly margined with orange 

 and tipped with white ; inner web tertiaries margined white ; chin blackish ; 

 throat silvery ashy brown ; remainder of under plumage bright orange- 

 yellow. 



*SiVA CYANUROPTERA soRDiMOR, Sharpe, 



Sharpe, P, Z. S., p. 438, 1887, ibid, P. Z. S., p. 276, 1888. 

 Wings. 59-62 mm.; tail, 75 mm.; tarsus, 23 mm.; culmen, 13 mm. 

 Habitat. — The mountains of the Malay Peninsula. 



