190 THE BIRDS OF MONGOLIA ETC. 



the crown of that colour, and the upper parts of the body are oUve-brown. 

 The eyes of our bird are brick-red; but in Gould's drawing they are dark 

 brown : this latter might be a mistake from having used a stuffed bird for 

 the plate. 



I am sorry to say that only one male is in our possession. It measures 

 as follows— length 5^ width 8"-3, wing 2''-95, tail 2"*27, gape 0''-52, tarsus 

 0'^-74, hind toe 0"% hind claw 0''-27. 



For the first time we obtained an example at Kan-su, where it keeps to 

 the lower mountain-ranges and, as it seems, exclusively to the fir-woods. 

 In habits it very much resembles its congeners ; its voice is very thin. 



88. LOPHOPHANES RUBIDIVENTRIS, Blyth (.^). 



Only two very bad specimens in summer plumage were obtained ; unfor- 

 tunately we omitted to mark the sex. They resembled the upper figure of 

 Gould's plate (Birds of Asia, part xi.) ; but from his description, and that 

 of the Journ. Asiat. Soc. of Bengal, 1847, pi. 446, they differ by the absence 

 of the rusty-red rump, w^hich in our specimens has only the shghtest tint of 

 brown ; moreover ours appear to be smaller. These diff^erences, however, 

 might be dependent upon age or sex. 



We found this bird in the wooded parts of Kan-su, and on one or two 

 occasions even very high up in the mountains ; but we never observed it north 

 of this country. 



Measurements— length 4'^-3, width 7", wing 2''-6, tail l'^-87, gape 0"-4, 

 tarsus 0''66. 



89. Orites caudatus, L. Sinitza dolgochvostaya. 



A small flock was observed by us in spring about Dalai-nor, out of 

 which a male bird was shot which exactly corresponds with specimens from 



