. Birds. Birds. 474 LANIID^. upper tail-coverts white, the longer ones ashy brown ; taU ashy brown with a rufous tinge, all the feathers narrowly tipped with whitish; the shafts reddish brown; greater wing-coverts ashy brown, edged brighter; quills ashy brown with rufous shafts, all edged and tipped' brighter; nasal plumes, lores, ear-coverts, and feathers under the eye black; under this black a broad white streak ; lower plumage cinereous, tinged with buff on the breast and becoming albescent on the abdomen ; vent and under tail-coverts pure Fig. 141.—Head of , Female. The
. Birds. Birds. 474 LANIID^. upper tail-coverts white, the longer ones ashy brown ; taU ashy brown with a rufous tinge, all the feathers narrowly tipped with whitish; the shafts reddish brown; greater wing-coverts ashy brown, edged brighter; quills ashy brown with rufous shafts, all edged and tipped' brighter; nasal plumes, lores, ear-coverts, and feathers under the eye black; under this black a broad white streak ; lower plumage cinereous, tinged with buff on the breast and becoming albescent on the abdomen ; vent and under tail-coverts pure Fig. 141.—Head of , Female. The forehead, crown, and nape of the same colour as the back; band through the eye pale brown; otherwise not differing from the male. The young resemble the adult female, but have the margins of all ihe feathers of the upper plumage whitish, forming cross bars. In the male the bill is black; eyelids dark plumbeous; iris yellowish brown ; legs plumbeous brown ; claws dark horn-colour. In the female the bill is brown; the gape and the base of both mandibles flesh-coloured. Length 8-5; tail 3-5 ; wing 4-5; tarsus -85 ; bill from gape 1-2. DiMrihution. The Himalayas from Nepal to Assam up to about 4000 feet; the whole of the hill-tracts of Assam ranging south throughout the whole of Burma and Karenuee. This species probably extends down the Malay peninsula for some distance, but the point where it meets the allied T. gularis is not known. It is found in Siam and China. T. gularis differs from T. pelvievs, so far as the adult males are concerned, in having the crown and back of the same deep bluish ashy and the tail nearly black. The former runs very close to T. sylvicola. JJahits, Sfc. A nest of this species found in Sikhim at 3000 feet was a massive cup made of tendrils of creepers and stems of plants and decorated with the flower-stems of grasses. It was obtained in April and contained four eggs, whitq. marked with yellowish brown and measuring about -93 by -73. 487. Tephrodornis s
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