THE WHITE-BELLIED FLOWERPECKER. 151 
tinged with fulvous on the rump ; lores^ ear-coverts and cheeks grey ; 
chin and throat pale rufescent, streaked with black ; breast plain rufescent ; 
remainder of lower plumage dull orange-brown_, duller on the flanks ; wings 
black, the third to the sixth primaries edged with pale grey on the terminal 
portion of the outer webs, the secondaries edged throughout their entire 
length with orange-brown. 
Upper mandible black ; lower mandible horny brown ; irides brown or 
dark brown ; feet deep buff or orange ; claws dusky. [Scully.) 
Length 5*8 inches, tail 2*3, wing 2*9, tarsus '85, bill from gape '75. The 
female is about the same size. 
The Stripe-throated Flowerpecker is said by Mr. Blyth to occur in 
Arrakan. It has not been recorded from any other part of Burmah. 
It is found in the Himalayas from Bhootan to Nipal, and will probably 
also be found in the Indo-Burmese countries. It occurs at elevations from 
4000 feet upwards. 
Dr. Jerdon remarks : — ^' It associates in large flocks, sometimes fifteen, 
twenty or more; these fly from tree to tree, alighting on the middle 
branches, and thence climbing sometimes over the mossy trunks and 
hopping from branch to branch they gain the summit, hunting all the 
while most carefully for small insects and larvse.^^ 
According to Mr. Hodgson, this bird makes a globular nest of moss, 
which is wedged into a fork of a tree or between ledges of rock. The 
eggs are represented as being pale buff spotted with red. 
Y. occipitalis has a spot of bright ferruginous on the nape, and wants 
the streaks on the throat. F. nigrimentum has all the chin black, and the 
crest is black edged with grey. 
Genus HERPOHNIS, Hodgs. 
147. HERPORNIS XANTHOLEUCA. 
THE WHITE-BELLIED FLOWERPECKER. 
Erpornis xantholeuca, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. xiii. p. 380 ; Jey^d. B. Ind. ii, p. 264. 
Erpornis xanthochlora, Hodgs. P. Z. S. 1845, p. 23 ; Hume, S. F. iii. p. 142. 
Herpornis xantholeuca, Bl. B. Burm. p. 110; Hume ^ Dav. S. F. vi. p. 374; 
Anders. Yunnan Exped. p. 630 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 104. 
Description. — Male and female. The whole upper plumage, the tail, 
upper wing-coverts and tertiaries clear greenish yellow; primaries and 
secondaries brown, the outer webs of the same colour as the back ; under 
tail-coverts bright yellow; lores, cheeks and the whole under plumage 
