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 316 timaliidvt:.

Description. Differs from Hodgson's Blue-winged Siva in having the upper plumage more olive-brown and in having no white tips to the wing-quills.

Colours of soft parts and Measurements as in the last bird, the culmen averaging a little larger.

Distribution. Kachin Hills to Yunnan and the Shan States.

Nidification. Nothing recorded hut a nest and egg sent me from the Shan States are exactly like those of the last bird.

Habits those of the genus.


 * SVrw sordida Hume, S. F., v, p. 104 (1877) (Muleyit); Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 11O.

Vernacular names. None recorded.

Description. Differs from Hodgson's Bhie-winged Siva in having the upper parts earthy-brown, the under parts entirely white and no white tips to the wing-quills.

Colours of soft parts. " Lower mandible, legs, feet and claws whitey-brown; upper mandible darker but still pale brown; iris creamy-white " (Gates).

Measurements. Wing G2 mm.; tail 68 nmi.; culmen 14 mm.

Distribution. Mt. Muleyit in Tenasserim.

Nidification and Habits. Nothing recorded.


 * Siva cyanouroptera oatesi Harington, Bull. B. O. C, xxxiii, p 62 (1913) (liyingyi Mountain).

Vernacular names. None recorded.

Description. Intermediate between ivimjatei and sordida. Above olive-brown tinged with ochre on the rump but the head almost entirely dull blue, showing only faint indications of the stripes which are conspicuous in xuingatei. Below white.

Distribution. Mt. Byingyi, borders of Shan States.

Nidification and Habits unknown. Genus Yuliina Hodgson, 1836. The genus YuJdna contains four species which are found within the limits of this work, extending from the "Western Himalayas to Assam, Burma and China. In Yidiina tiie bill is about two-thirds the length of the head, greatly curved and sharply pointed; the frontal hairs and rictal