DEYMOICA CHINIANA. 
sienna-yellow, shaded near the point with dull chesnut-brown. Tarsi, toes, 
and claws reddish yellow, the latter lightest. 
Form, &c. — Figure rather robust ; hill considerably arched, especially 
towards the tip, which is pointed ; cutting edge of upper mandible entire ; 
lower mandible slightly curved downwards. Tail rather long and moderately 
graduated. Wings rounded, and when folded, reach as far as the com- 
mencement of the second fourth of the tail, the fourth quill feather rather 
the longest, the third and fifth equal and slightly shorter, the second con- 
siderably shorter than the third, and the first about half the length of the 
second ; the tertiary quill feathers nearly as long as the primaries. Tarsi 
and toes strong and rather short, the former scutellated anteriorly, entire 
posteriorly, the hinder toe the most powerful : claws rather short, strong, 
much curved and pointed. 
DIMENSIONS. 
Inches. 
Lines. 
Inches. Lines 
Length from the point of the bill to 
the tip of tail 
5 
9 
Length of the tarsus 
of the outer toe 
0 9| 
of the bill to the angle of the 
mouth 
0 
n 
of the middle toe ... . 
of the inner toe 
0 6 
0 4 
of wings when folded 
2 
9 
of the hinder toe ... . 
0 3| 
of tail 
2 
10J 
Female. — Not known. 
Only one specimen of this species was obtained, and that was killed while perched upon 
some brushwood growing near the edge of a small stream to the northward of Kurrichane. In 
its habits it resembled the species already described, and, at the time it was shot, it was moving 
quickly about among the branches apparently in quest of its food, which was found to consist 
of insects. 
