Common in low bush jungle under-forest on the Kakhyen hills about Ponsee.
Not having had authentic Chinese specimens of L. luteus wherewith to compare
my Burmese examples, I cannot speak with certainty respecting the specific differences
of the two birds. Mr. G-. R. Gray, however, in the ‘ Handlist ’ separates them,
and I adopt his conclusion with regard to the name of L. callipyga for the Indian
bird, which indisputably belongs to it.
1 0 9 . L e i o t h r i x a r g e n t a t j r i s , Hodgson.
Mesia argewtauris, Hodgs., Ind. Rev., vol. ii, p. 88, 1888.
Philocalyx argewtauris, Hodgs., Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. x, p. 29, 1841.
Fringilloparus argewtauris, Hodgs., Joum, As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xiii, p. 985,1844; id., Gray's Zool.
Misc., p. 84, 1844.
Leiothrix argentauris, Gray, Gen. B., vol. i, p. 269, 1846; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus,, As. Soc., Bengal,
p. 99, 1849; Bonap. Consp., t. i, p. 882, 1850; Horsfield & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. Ind. Co.,
vol. i, p. 865, 1854; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. ii, p. 251, 1868; Gray, Handl. B., vol. i, p. 813,
1869; Godwin-Austen, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xxxix, 1870, p. 109; Blyth & Walden,
Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xliv, 1875, ex. No., p. 109; W. Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 464.
a. Ponsee, 28rd April 1868
b. Shitee Mt., Kakhyen range, 20th February 1875.
Bare, as compared with L. callipyga, but associated with it at Ponsee.
1 1 0 . L e i o t h r i x c y a n t jr o p t e r t t s , Hodgson.
Siva cyanouroptera, Hodgs., Ind. Rev., 1838, p. 88 ; Gray, Cat. Mamm., &c., Nepal, p. 95, 1846;
Gould, B. Asia, pt. xiv, 1862 ; Jerdon, B. Lid., vol. ii, p. 258, 1868 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs
Ind. B.,p. 398, 1874.
jLeiothrix lepida, McClell., Proc. Zool. Soc., 1839, p. 162.
Hemiparus cyanowropterus, Hodgs., Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. x, p. 2$, 1841.
Ioropus cyanowropterus, Hodgs., Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xiii, p. 937, 1844 ; id., in Gray's Zool.
Misc., p. 84, 1844.
Leiothrix cymuroptera, Gray, Gen. B., vol. i, p. 269, 1845 ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus., As. Soc., Bengal,
p. 99, 1849; Bonap. Consp., t. i, p. 882, 1850; Horsfield & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. Ind. Co.;
vol. i, p. 366, 1854; Gray, Handl. B., i, p. 813, 1869; Godwin-Austen, Joum. As. Soc/
vol. xlv, 1876, p. 82.
a. ? Ponsee, March 1868.
Genus H e r p o r n i s , Agassiz.
1 1 1 . H e r p o r n i s x a n t h o l e u c a , Hodgson.
Frpornis xantholeuca, Hodgs., Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xiii, p. 880 (1844); Blyth, Cat. B. Mus.,
As. Soc., Bengal, p. 101 (1849); Horsfield & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. Ind. Co., vol. i, p. 232,
1854; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. ii, p. 264,1862; Hume, Stray Feathers, 1874, p. 479,1875, p. 142.
Frpornis xanthochlom, Hodgs., Proc. Zool. Soc., 1845, p. 28; Bonap. Consp., t. i, p. 259, 1850;
Gray, Handl. B., vol. i, p. 315,1869.
Timalia xanthochlora, Hodgs., Cat. Birds, Nepal, p. 85; Gray, Gen. B., vol. iii, App. p. 10, 1849.
Eerpomis xantholeuca, Godwin-Austen, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xlv, 1876, p. 88; Sharpe,
Ibis, 1876, p. 41.
a. 5 Nampoung, 19th February 1875.
b. ? Shitee Mt., Kakhyen hills, 20th February 1875.
Family—ZOSTER OP IBM.
Genus Z o s t e r o p s , Vigors.
1 1 2 . Z o s t e r o p s p a l p e b r o s a , Temminck.
Sylvia palpebrosa, Temm., PI. Col., 293, fig. 8, 1824.
Zosterops maderaspatensis, Jerdon, Madr. Joum., xi, p. 7, 1840.
Zosteropspalpebrosus, Blyth, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xv, p. 44, 1846; Hutton, Joum. As. Soc.,
Bengal, vol. xvii, p. 690,1848; Gray, Gen. B., i, p. 198, 1848; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus., As. Soc.,
Bengal, p. 220, 1849; Bonap. Cpnsp. G. Av., p. 898, 1850; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. ii, p. 265,
1868; Horsfield & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. Ind. Co., p. 268,1854; Hartl., Joum. f. Om., 1865,
p. 14; Stoliczka, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xxxvii, 1868, p. 51; Gray, Handl. B., yoL j,
p. 162, 1869; Godwin-Austen, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xxxix, 1870, P- 109; Holdsw.,
Proc. Zool. Soc., 1872, p. 458, pi. xx, fig. 1; Adam., Stray Feathers, 1873, p. 884; Ball, t. c.,
p. 74; Cock. & Marsh., t. c., p. 356; Ball, op. cit., 1874, p. 417; Hume, t. £y p. 479; id.,
op. cit., 1875, p. 148; Brooks, i.e., p. 252; Blyth & Walden, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal,
vol. xliv, 1875, ex. No., p. 110; Hume, Stray Feathers, 1876, p. 37; pp. 291, 463; Fairbank,
i. e., p. 266; Fairbank, op. cit., 1877, p. 401.
a. ? Momien, July 1868..
In bushes on the grassy hill sides.
Jerdon describes the belly as bluish-white, which it is in some specimens, but
in others it has a decided buff tinge. The centre of the belly is always paler than
the sides. The black lores are always more or less developed, but in Temminck’s
figure there is only a faint trace of black in that region. A bird from Central India
agrees exactly with Temminck’s figure, but it is a young male, while in others,
apparently adults, from the same locality, the lores are prominently black. In a
bird from Ootacamund on the Nilgiris, with a longer and every way larger bill
than the ordinary run of Indian birds, the lores are jet black, and better defined
than in any of the others. The sides of the body and flanks are ashy-grey, and
the middle of the belly albescent; but I have seen small-billed specimens, undoubted
Z. palpebrosm, with the same colour on the abdomen; indeed the tints vary much
on these parts. This long-billed individual can be connected to true Z. palpebrosus
by a gradation, not only of bill measurements, but also of dorsal and loreal tints.
1 1 3 . Z o s t e r o p s s im p l e x , Swinhoe.
Zosterops simplex, Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1862, p. 817, 1868, p. 208; id., Ibis, 1868, p. 294,
1866, p. 171, 1870, p. 848; Gray, Handl. B.,i, p. 163, 1869; Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc.,
1871, p. 849; Gould, B. Asia, pt. xxiii, 1871.
a. Ponsee, 2nd May 1868.