PYCTOEHIS. 687 



Bengal, vol. xxxix, p. 103, 1870; Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. B., p. 245, 1873; Blyth 

 & Walden, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xliv, 1875, extra No., p. 116; Godwin-Austen, 

 Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xlv, 1876, p. 75. 

 Timalia clirysc&a, Gray, Gen. B., vol. iii, App. p. 10, 1849. 



a. Ponsee, 30tli April 1868. 



I procured only one young example of this species, and it is very immature ; 

 at the same time, the identification has been ascertained by comparison with 

 undoubted individuals of the species of different ages. 



It is improbable that it ranges to the eastward beyond the Kakhyen hills, as the 

 character of the fauna changes and becomes more and more Chinese. 



Genus Pyctorhis, Hodgson. 

 125. Pyctorhis sinensis, Gmelin. 



Chinese Titmouse, Lath., Syn., vol. ii, 2, p. 555, 1783. 



Varus sinensis, Gm., Syst. Nat., t. i, p. 1012, 1788. 



Timalia Jiypoleuca, Frankl., Proc. Zool. Soc., 1831, p. 118; id., Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. i, 

 p. 313, 1832 ; Jerdon, Madr. Journ., vol. x, p. 260, 1839; Blyth, Ann. Nat. Hist., xii, p. 97, 

 1843 ; Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xi, p. 795, 1842 ; xii, p. 181, 1843; Gray, Gen. B., vol. i, 

 p. 228, 1846. 



Timalia hicolor, Lafresn., Mag. de Zool., 1835, Ois., pi. xxxix. 



Timalia horsfieldii, Jerdon & Selby, 111. Orn., pi. 119 ; Blyth, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xi, p. 199, 

 1842; Gray, Cat. Mamm., &c., Nepal, Coll. Hodgs., p. 86, 1846. 



Pyctorhis hypoleuca, Hodgs., Gray's Zool. Misc., 1844, p. 83. 



Chrysomma hypoleucos, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xlv, p. 602, 1845. 



Pyctorhis rufifrons, Hodgs., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1845, p. 24. 



Chrysomma sinense, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xvi, p. 454, 1847 ; id.. Cat. B. Mus., As. 

 Soc, Bengal, p. 150, 1849 ; Bonap. Consp., p. 216, 1850 ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. 

 Ind. Co., vol. i, p. 230, 1854. 



Pyctorhis sinensis, Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. ii, p. 15, 1863 ; Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xxxvii, 

 1868, p. 36; King, t. c., p. 214; Gray, Handl. B., vol. i, p. 316, 1869; Hume, Nests 

 and Eggs, Ind. B., p. 237, 1873; id.. Stray Feathers, 1873, p. 179; Adam., t. c, p. 378; 

 Ball, op. cit, 1874, p. 408; Hume, t. c., p. 475 ; id., op. cit., 1875, p. 115; id., op. cit., 1876, 

 p. 34; Fairbank, t. c., p. 265; Blyth & Walden, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xliv, 1875, 

 ex. No., p. 117 ; Godwin- Austen, ib., vol. xlv, 1876, p. 74; Gates, Stray Feathers, 1877, 

 p. 151. 



a. t Bhamo, February 1868. 



This specimen differs from the Indian birds in the upper parts being slightly 

 darker, and the under parts pale cinereous white, on the chin, throat and breast, 

 the belly being of a darker tint of the same colour, slightly tinged with rufous. 

 Jerdon describes all the lower plumage of the species as white, whereas nearly every 

 bird has a well marked rufous tinge on the abdomen. There is also always a pale 

 supercilium, which is prolonged behind the eye. 



This is not a common bird about Bhamo. 



