Page:The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma (Birds Vol 1).djvu/346

 302 TIMALIIBiE.

Distribution. The eastern hills of Burma, Kachin Hills and Sliaii States to Karenni.

Nidification and Habits. Nothing recorded.


 * LUypiila davisoni Hume. S. F., v, p. 110 (1877) (Muleyit Mt.) Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 200.

Vernacular names. None recorded.

Description. Ditters from L. a. annectens in having the back and wing-coverts black and the rump and upper tail-coverts mingled black and deep ferruginous mat-oon.

Colours of soft parts. Iris crimson; bill black; legs lioruy- brt)"n. Measurements about the same as in the other races or a tritle smaller; wing about 75 mm.

Distribution. Tenasserim. Nidification unknown.

Habits. Davison says : " I only found this bird at Muleyit, quite near the top, usually in pairs, sometimes singly. I found it generally about the large trees surrounding the ' Sakans ' or camping-grounds, strange to say, climbing about the trunk and branches much after the manner of a Nuthatch. I have also seen it bunting about the leaves and smaller branches of the tree-tops. Those I killed had eaten only insects."'

{{c|{{larger|(320) Leioptila pulchella pulchella. Thk Beautiful Sibia. Sibia imlchella Godw.-Aust., A. M. N. H., (4) xiii, p. 100 ^1874) (Kunho, Naga Hills). Lioptila indchdla. Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 200.

Vernacular names. None recorded.

Description. The whole upper plumage and smaller wing-coverts bluish-grev, brighter on the head; median tail-feathers umber- brown, with a subterminal black band and a dark grey tip; the black gradually increasing in extent iintil the outermost feathers are nearly all black with grey tips; greater coverts next the back entirely chocolate-brown changing to black on the outer coverts, winglet and primary-coverts; primaries black broadly edged with bluish-grey; outer secondaries with darker grey edges and inner secondaries umber-brown, edged with black on the outer webs; lores and round the eye black; ear-coverts mixed bluish-grey and black; lower plumage ashy-blue, tinged with vinous.

Colours of soft parts. Iris crimson; bill black; legs horny-brown.

Measurements. Total length about 230 mm.; wing 100 to 105 mm.; tail about 120 mm.; tarsus about 33 mm.; culmen about 20 mm.