LEIOTHEIX. 629 



The only difference between these Kakhyen hill specimens and Tickell's is, that 

 the body beneath, instead of being nearly white, is markedly cinereous. I do not, 

 however, attach any importance to this, for a tendency to cinereous is also distinctly 

 visible on the under parts of P. erythropterus, which P. ceralatus also resembles in 

 this respect ; Hume observes that this species is intermediate between P. erythrop- 

 terus and P.flavicapis, having the grey back of P. erythropterus and the yellow 

 wing of P. flavicapis. 



Total length 6"'40; wing 3'7; tail 2*50; tarsus 0-75 ; bill (gape) 0-53. 



I obtained two specimens of this species, one at Ponsee and the other at 

 Sanda, and the latter I have figured. 



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Genus Leiotheix, Swainson. 



108. Leiothrix callipyga, Hodgson. 



Bahila callipyga, Hodgs.^ Ind. Eev., vol. ii, p. 88, 1838. 



Callipyga furcata, Hodgs., Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. x, p. 29, 1841. 



Leiothrix callipyga, Hodgs., Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xiii, p. 934, 1844; Gray, Cat. Mamm., &c., 



Nepal, Hodgs., p. 84, 1844; Gray, Handl. B., vol. i, p. 313, 1869; Hume, Nests and Eggs, 



Ind. B., p. 390, 1874; Gammie, Stray Feathers, 1875, p. 266. 

 Leiothrix furcatus, Hodgs., in Gray^s Zool. Misc., p. 84, 1844. 

 Leiothfix luteals, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xiv, p. 552, 1845; id.. Cat. B. Mus., As. Soc, 



Bengal., p. 99, 1849; Gould, B. Asia, pt. iii, 1851 ; Horsfield, & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. Ind. 



Co., vol. i, p. 364, 1854; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. ii, p. 250, 1863. 



a. b. c. t Ponsee, March 1868. 

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There is a good deal of variation in the intensity of the yellow tint on the head 

 and neck, in the rich orange yellow of the neck and breast, in the yellow of the 

 lores, and in the depth of tint on the ear coverts. In females these parts, as a rule, 

 are not so brilliant as in the males, but I have males (young ?) as dull coloured as 

 females. The head and neck, in some males, are almost orange yellow-olive, and 

 dull green to yellow-olive in others. In the birds with dull coloured heads, the orange 

 of the breast is light, the ear coverts are almost ashy-olive, and the lores are dirty 

 white, and the dark line from the lower mandible is hardly discernible. 



In the orange olive- green-headed birds, the lores are always tinged with yellow, 

 the ear coverts are much lighter, the mandible streak is well defined, and the breast 

 is rich orange-red. In Gould's figure, the orange of the breast is represented much 

 further back than in my specimens, but this character is very variable. In one 

 very brightly coloured bird the chin and throat alone are brilliant yellow, the neck 

 and upper part of the breast are reddish orange-yellow, well marked off from the 

 throat, but fading below into ashy oKve- green on the sides and pale yellow on the 

 centre of the abdomen. 



