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Legs and feet dark plumbeous, shaded with black ; claws dark horny 
brown ; bill black ; gape dark plumbeous ; iris red-brown ; eyelids dark 
plumbeous. (Davison.) 
Length 10*5 inches^ tail 4*2^ wing 5*5, tarsus 1*1, bill from gape 1'2. 
The female appears to be of the same size. 
This somewhat rare bird was procured by Mr. Davison on the higher 
slopes of Mooleyit mountain in Tenasserim^ and Capt. Bingham found it 
in the Thoungyeen valley. 
Out of Burmah it is known to occur only in the Himalayas, in Sikhim, 
Nipal and Kumaon. 
Mr. Hodgson remarks of these birds : — '^They are shy in their manners, 
adhere exclusively to the woods, live solitarily or in pairs, breed and moult 
but once a year, nidificate on trees, and feed almost equally on the ground 
and on trees. I have taken from their stomachs several sorts of stony 
berries^ small univalve Mollusca and sundry kinds of aquatic insects.^'' 
The nest is said to be very solid, made of moss and lined with lichens 
and black roots, and to be cup-shaped ; it is placed on the bough of a 
tree. The eggs are said to be greenish thickly blotched with brown. 
Genus PTEEEEYTHRIUS, Swains.^ 
133. PTEEEEYTHRIUS iEEALATUS. 
TICKELL^S SHRIKE-TIT. 
Pteruthius aeralatus, Tick. J. A. S. B. xxiv. p. 267 ; Hu7ne Sj- Dav. S. F. vi. p. 368 ; 
Anders. Yunnan Exped. p. 628, pi. xlvii. j Htime, S. F. viii. p. 104. Ptery- 
thrius aeralatus, Bl. Sf Wcdd. B. Burnt, p. 109. 
Description. — Male. The whole summit of head from the forehead to the 
nape, the lores, ear-coverts and feathers round the eye deep black ; a broad 
stripe from above the eye to the nape white ; back, rump, scapulars and 
upper tail-coverts grey, the latter margined with black ; chin, throat, cheeks, 
sides of neck, breast and flanks pale grey; abdomen white tinged with 
vinous, as are also the feathers of the flanks covering the thighs ; vent and 
under tail-coverts white ; tail glossy black ; primaries black, all but the 
first three tipped with white ; secondaries all black ; tertiaries chestnut on 
the inner webs and the tips of the outer, golden yellow on the remainder 
of the outer webs ; wing-coverts black, the lesser ones marked with grey. 
* Conf. Strickl. Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 1, vii. p. 29. 
