214 BIRDS OF INDIA. 



Mr. Hodgson found this species very rarely in Nepal; and 

 it appears to be more common in the hill ranges to the South- 

 east, Colonel Phayre having sent specimens to the Calcutta 

 Museum from Arracan. Horsfield gives AfFghanistan as a lo- 

 cality, but this is probably a mistake, many of Griffith's specimens, 

 undoubtedly from Assam and the Khasia Hills, being mixed up 

 with his collections from AfFghanistan. I did not procure it at 

 Darjeeling. 



586. Enicurus schistaceus, Hodgson. 

 As. Pies. XiX., 189— Blyth, Cat. 922— Housf, Cat., 546. 



The Slaty-backed Fork-tail. 



Descr. — Head, neck, back, and flanks, dark slaty blue ; cheeks, 

 throat, and a very narrow band round the bill, jet black ; a white 

 frontal band above the last, from eye to eye, partially surrounding 

 the eyes behind ; beneath, the whole body from the neck, with the 

 rump and upper tail-coverts, white ; wings and tail as in macitlatus, 

 but the white at the base of the quills is more extended, and 

 shows itself as a speculum on the primaries. 



Bill black ; legs fleshy-white ; irides brown. Length about 

 10 inches by 12 in extent ; wing 3| ; tail 5^ ; tarsus 1| ; bill at 

 front, \- 6 . 



The Slaty Enicurus is chiefly found on the larger streams, not 

 ascending so high as E. maculutus. I procured it both from the 

 little and great Rungeet, but it is much rarer than the spotted- 

 backed and the short-tailed species. It extends from Nepal to 

 Bootan, and is also found in the Khasia hills and Burmah ; but 

 has not been sent from the N. W. Himalayas. 



587. Enicurus Bcouleri, Vigors. 



Gould, Cent. Him. Birds, pi. 28 — E. heterurus, Hodgs. — 

 Blyth, Cat. 925 — Horsf., Cat. 55Q—Ooii(/-swnbrek-pho, Lepch. 



The Short-tailed Fork-tail. 



Descr.— Frontal band white, the rest of the head, B back, and 

 wings, black ; rump and upper tail-coverts white ; tail, with the 



