164 W. T. Blanford — On Birds from Sikkim. [No. 2, 





Wing 



Tail 



Tarsus 



Bill from forehead 



Bill from gape, 



(1) 



2-28 



173 



073 



0-38 



0'55 inch. 



(2) 



2-1 



1-6 



0-7 



038 



54 „ 



574. Abeobnis sttbebciliaeis, Tickell. 



J. A. S. B., 1859 p. 414, — A. fiaviventris, Jerdon, Birds of India, vol. ii, p. 203. 

 As pointed out by Mr. Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 26, Darjiling specimens 

 appear to agree with those from Tenaserim. 



577. A. ALBOGTTLABIS, HodgS. 



Top of head rufous olive, with a black band on each side above the rusty 

 supercilia, wings yellowish white within. 



579. Tickellia Hodgsoki, (Moore). 



Mr. Mandelli has obtained three specimens of this rare bird, two of 

 which appear to have no yellow in the middle of the rump, only the sides 

 being of that colour. The fifth and sixth quills in both specimens slightly 

 exceed the fourth in lenerth. 





Wing 



Tail 



Tarsus 



Bill from forehead 



Bill from gape. 



1 



1-95 



17 



0-72 



0-4 



0-58 inch. 



2 



1-82 



1.61 



0-8 



0-35 



0-53 „ 



3 



193 



175 



08 



034 



05 „ 



519ff. DlJMETICOLA BBUTSTNETBECTUS, Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 20. 



The following is the description of a specimen sent by Mr. Mandelli. 



Upper parts uniform olive brown, quills and outer rectrices brown with 

 margins of the same colour as the back ; lores whitish, chin, throat and 

 middle of belly dirty white, sides of neck and breast the same colour as 

 the back, middle of the breast pale brown, thigh coverts, vent and under 

 tail coverts olive brown, the last named with white tips of no great breadth, 

 about 01 in. ; bill black, feet brown. Wing 23 in., tail 2, the central 

 feathers exceeding the outer by G"3, tarsus 082, bill from forehead 038, from 

 gape 055. The fifth quill is the longest, the fourth very little shorter, 

 third less by 0*1, second by 0'37 and first by 1 inch. 



522. Tblbuea ltjteoyeis t teis, Hodgs. 



I refer to this species a specimen sent by Mr. Mandelli, but which has 

 not a trace of yellow on the lower parts.* The only example of Hodgson's 

 species in the Indian Museum is in very bad order, and the colours have 



* In Hodgson's original description P. Z. S. 1845, p. 30, the bird is said to be 

 above olive brown with a luteous lustre, below lutescent laterally, and albescent cen- 

 trally, a pale line over the eye. This agrees much better with the specimen before 

 rae than does Jerdon's account in the ' Birds of India.' 



