ERYTHROSTERNA. 621 



1868, p. 316; Godwin-Austen, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xxxix, 1870, p. 101 : id., op. cit 



vol. xlv, 1876, p. 72. 

 Bimorpha strop/data, Hodgs., Proe. Zool. Soc, 1845, p. 26; Bonap. Consp., t. i, p. 319, 1850. 

 Niltava strophiata, Gray, Gen. B., vol. i, p. 264, 1846 ; id., Handl. B., vol. i, p. 326. 



a. S Ponsee, 28th March 1868. 



I have carefully compared this bird with Darjeeling specimens with the bright 

 ferruginous breast spot. It wants this mark, but it agrees with these birds in every 

 other particular, and I think there can be no doubt that the rufous of the breast 

 is either subject to seasonal change, or is late in appearing, as in Erythrosterna} I 

 found it at an elevation of 3,000 feet on the Kakhyen hills, and Jerdon states that 

 on the Eastern Himalaya it ranges as high as 8,000 feet and upwards. This is one 

 among many instances of how the Himalayan fauna stretches across the north of 

 Assam to the mountain ranges to the east of Burma. 



Genus Ertthrosterna, Bonaparte. 

 90. Ertthrosterna albicilla, Pallas. 



Mmcicapa albicilla, Pall., Zoogr. Rosso. Asiat., t. i, p. 462, Aves, tab. i, 1811. 



Saxicola ruheculoides , Sykes, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1832, p. 92. 



Mtiscicapa leucura, Swains., Nat. Hist. Plyc, p. 253, c. 1837; Gray, Handl. B., vol. i, p. 322, 1869. 



Synofnis leucura, Hodgs., in Gray's Zool. Misc., p. 83, 1844. 



Synornis joulainms, Hodgs., /. c, p. 83; id., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1845, p. 26. 



Erythrosterna leucura, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus., As. Soc, Bengal, p. 171; Bonap. Consp., t. i, p. 318; 

 Horsfield & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. Ind. Co., vol. i, p. 297 ; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. i, 1865, p. 481 ; 

 Swinhoe, Ibis, 1860, p. 357, 1863, p. 92 ; Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 572 ; Swinhoe, Ibis, 1870, p. 247 ; 

 Blanford, id., 1870, p. 468 ; id., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1863, p. 290 ; Dybowski, Journ. f. Orn., 1872, 

 p. 448; Blyth & Walden, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xliv, 1875, ex. No., p. 103; Hume, 

 Stray Feathers, 1875, p. 105; Tacz., Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr., t. i, p. 169; Armstrong, Stray 

 Feathers, 1876, p. 323; Godwin- Austen, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xlv, 1876, p. 72 ; 

 Brooks, Stray Feathers, 1877, p. 451 ; Blanford, t. c, p. 484. 



Tkamnohia niveiventris , Swinhoe, Ibis, 1860, p. 54. 



Erythrosterna mugimaki, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1861, p. 330. 



Erythrosterna albicilla, Swinhoe, Proc Zool. Soc, 1862, p. 317; id., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1871, p. 380. 



a. t Katha, 19th January 1868. 



b. Sawady, 27th January 1875. 



c. S Bhamo, 23rd January 1868. 



The Katha bird is shewing the ferruginous on the lores, chin and throat, while 

 the Bham6 one, shot a few days later, has only a small patch on the chin. In the 

 latter, the throat is white and the breast ashy. In specimens of E. parva from 

 Jubbulpore, Central India, killed in December, I find the chin, throat and breast 

 deep ferrugiaous. 



' I have seen a specimen of this bird from Darjeeling shot in August, in which there is only a faint trace of rufous 

 on the breabt. 



