Chaitaria nibeculoides, Hodgs., in Gray’s Zool. Misc., p. 84, 1844.
Niltava nibeculoides, Gray, Gen. B., vol. i, p. 264, 1846 ; id., Cat. Mamm., &c., Nepal, Hodgs., p. 90,
, 1846; id., Handl. B., vol. i, p. 825, 1869.
Erythrosterna rubecula, Bouap. Consp., t. i, p. 818, 1850.
a. t Kabyuet, 10th January 1875.
b. ? Upper Burma, 16th March 1868.
c. $ Bham6, 6th February 1868.
d. i Tapeng river, 21st March 1868.
e.—f . g. $ Ponsee, 2nd May 1868, 15th March 1868, 28rd April 1868, and
15th March 1868.
This bird is generally distributed oyer Upper Burma and the Kakhyen hills.
8 8 . C y o r n i s t i c k e l l i , Blyth.
Muscicapa hyacintha, Tickell, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. ii, p. 574, 1888.
Muscicapa ba/nyu/mas, Jerdon, Madr. Joum., vol. s i, p. 15,1840.
Cyornis banyumas, (nec. Horsf.), Blyth, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. sii, p. 941, 1842; id., Cat. B.
Mus., As. Soc., Bengal, p. 178, 1849; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. i, p. 466, 1862.
Cyornis tickellia, Blyth, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. sii, p. 941, 1848; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. i,
p. 467, 1862; Gray, Cat. Hodgs. Drawings, 1868, p. 4 8 ; Blanford, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal,
vol. sxxviii, 1869, p. 174; Blyth, Ibis, 1870, p. 166; Lloyd, op. cit., 1872, p. 197; Hume, Stray
Feathers, 1873, p. 436; Ball, op. cit., 1874, p. 405; Butler & Hume, op. cit., 1875, p. 468;
Butler, op. cit., 1876, p. 87; Blyth & Walden, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xliv, 1875, ex
N o .; Fairbank, Stray Feathers, 1876, p. 257 ; id., op. cit., 1877, p. 402.
Cyornis elegarn, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus., As. Soc., Bengal, p. 173 (nec Temm.)
Cyornis jerdoni, Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 371; Holdsw., Proc. Zool. Soc., 1872, p. 442.
Niltava jerdoni, Gray, Handl. i, p. 325.
Niltava tickellia, Gray, Gen. B., i, p. 264; id., Handl. B., i, p. 325.
a. ? Upper Burma, 16th January 1868.
b. c. S Ponsee, 15th March and 23rd April 1868.
Some of the ma.lp.«; are slightly darker above than Calcutta and Singbhoom
specimens, and the ferruginous of the chin, throat and breast is more intense, while
others are almost quite as pale. The ear-coverts are the same colour as the back, dark
jndigo-blue. In one specimen which was ascertained to be a female of this species,
there is a pale pinkish pale metallic lustre on the forehead and over the eye.
In thick low jungle outside Bham6 and at an elevation of 3,300 feet on the
Kakhyen hills.
Genus S i p H i a , Hodgson.
89. S i p h i a s t r o p h ia t a , Hodgson.
Siphia strophiata, Hodgs., Ind. Rev., vol. i, p. 651, 1857; Gray, Cat. Mamm., &c., Coll. Hodgs., p. 92,
1846; Blyth, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xvi, p. 125, 1847 ; id., Cat. B. Mus., As. Soc., Bengal,
p. 171, 1849; Horsfield & Moore, Cat. B. Mus., vol. i, p. 298, 1854; Jerdon, B. Ind.,
vol. i, 1863, p. 316; Stoliczka, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xxxvii, 1868, p. 32; Pelz., Ibis,
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1868, p. 316; Godwin-Austen, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xxxix, 1870, p. 101; id., op. cit.,
vol. xlv, 1876, p. 72.
JDimorpha strophiata, Hodgs., Proc. 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. I t 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.1 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
among0 many instances of how the Himalayan fauna stretches across the north of
Assam to the mountain ranges to the east of Burma.
Genus E r y t h r o s t e r n a , Bonaparte.
90. E r y t h r o s t e r n a a l b i c i l l a , Pallas.
Mvscicapa albicilla, Pall., Zoogr. Rosso. Asiat., t. i, p. 462, Aves, tab. i, 1811.
Saxicola nibeculoides, Sykes, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1832, p. 92.
Muscicapa leucura, Swains., Nat. Hist. Flyc., p. 253, c. 1837; Gray, Handl. B., vol. i, p. 322, 1869..
Synomis leucura, Hodgs., in Gray’s Zool. Misc., p. 83, 1844.
Synomis joulaimus, Hodgs., t. c., p. 88; 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. 357,1868, 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, Joum. f. Om., 1872,
p. 448; Blyth & Walden, Joum. 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. 823; Godwin-Austen, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xlv, 1876, p. 72;
Brooks, Stray Feathers, 1877, p. 451; Blanford, t. c., p. 484.
Thamnobia niveiventris, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1860, p. 54.
JErythrosterna mugimaki, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1861, p. 880.
JErythrosterna albicilla, Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1862, p. 817; id., Proc. Zool. Soc., 1871, p. 380.
, a. $ Katha, 19th January 1868.
b. Sawady, 27th January 1875.
c. t Bham6, 28rd 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 ferruginous.
1 I have seen a specimen of this bird from Darjeeling shot in August; in which there is only a faint trace o f rufous
on the breast.