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its wings incapacitates it for elevated or distant flights, and its 
motions are low, short, and made with great exertion. It lives in 
the thickest coverts, here it forms its neat on the ground, and feeds 
on the larvae of insects, worms, &c. This bird is a delightful 
resident in the forests of Mount Prahu, which, in the luxuriance of 
its vegetation and gloomy thickets, is probably not surpassed in any 
portion of the globe. It utters, almost without interruption, a 
varied song. Its common note is a quickly reiterated babbling, 
resembling that of the Sylvia curruca. Linn., and other birds of this 
family ; it also has a protracted plaintive note, but it sometimes 
rises to higher and melodious warblings, which, in the general 
silence of these elevated regions, afford an inexpressible sensation of 
delight to the mind of the solitary traveller." — (Horsf , Zool. Ees. 
in Java.) 
Genus Tesia, Hodgs., Journ. A. S. Beng. VI. p. 101 (1837). 
OLiauBA, Hodgs., Proc. Zool. Soc. (1845), p. 25. 
238. TESIA CYANIVENTEB, Hodgson. 
Tesia cyaniventer, Hodgs., Journ. A. 8. Beng. VI. p. 101 ; 
Cat. B. Nep. p. 62. Blytli, Journ. A. S. Beng. XI. 
^.182; XIV. 586; Cat. B. Mus. A. s' Beng. 
p. 178. G. B. Gray, Gen. of Birds, I. p. 156. 
Bonap., C. G. Av. p. 257. 
Saxicola olivea, 3IcClell., P. Z. S. (1839), p. 161. 
Tesia auriceps, Hodgs. BlytJi. Journ. A. S. Beng. XVI. 
pp. 137, 474. 
The Blue-bellied Tesia, Hodgs. 
Tee-see, Nepal, Hodgs. 
a. h. c. d. S ? . Nepal. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, 
Esq., June, 1853. 
e. Drawing. Assam {8. olivea, McClelL). Presented by 
J. McClelland, Esq. 
239. TESIA CASTANEO-CORONATA, Burton Sp. 
Sylvia castaneo-coronata, Burt., P. Z. S. (1835), p. 152. 
Tesia castaneo-coronata, BlytJi, Journ. A. S. Beng. XIV. 
p. 586 ; Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 179. G. B. 
Gray, Gen. of Birds, I. p. 156, t. 47. / 1. Bonap., 
C. G. Av. p. 257. 
