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104 652. Calliope tschebaiewi. The Tibet Ruby-throat. Calliope pectoralis, Gould, apud Godw.-Aust. J. A, 8. 12. xxxix, pt. ii, p. 270, xlv, pt. ii, p. 79 ; Anders. Yunnan Exped., Aves, p. G15 ; Hume, 8. F. xi, p. 199.

Calliope tschebaiewi, Prjev., Rowley's Orn. Misc. ii, p. 180, pi. liv, fig. 1 (1877). Erithacus tschebaiewi (Prjev.}, Seebohm, Cat. B. M. v, p. 308.

Coloration. Male. Differs from the male of C. pectoralis, when adult, in being olive-brown, tinged with russet above, and in having the cheeks white, not black.

The females and immature birds of both species are inseparable.

Bill and legs black; iris brown (CocJcburn).

Length about 6; tail 2-3; wing 3; tarsus 1'2; bill from gape *75.

Distribution. A winter visitor to the Himalayas from Sikhim to the Dikrang valley in Assam, extending to the Khasi hills, where it is very common at Shillong ; Godwin-Austen procured this species at Mymensing and Anderson near Bhamo. In summer this bird is found in Tibet and Kaiisu.

Genus TARSIGER, Hodgs., 1844.

The genus Tarsiger contains one species, in which the sexes resemble each other somewhat closely, and have the whole lower plumage yellow. In structure this genus differs in no respect from Calliope,

Tarsiger chrysceus is a constant resident at moderate heights on the Himalayas.

653. Tarsiger chrysaeus. The Golden Busli-RoUn.

Tarsiger chrysams, Hodgs. P. Z. 8. 1845, p. 28 ; Blyth, Cat. p. 169 ; Horsf. Sf M. Cat. i, p. 310; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 149; Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xxxvii, pt. ii, p. 45 ; Hume, N. fy E. p. 325 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iv, p. 260 ; Hume, Cat. no. 511 ; Gates in Hume's N. & E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 67.

The Golden Bush-Chat, Jerd. ; Manshil-pho, Lepch.

Coloration. Male. Forehead, crown, nape, hind neck, and the middle portion of the back olive-green; a superciliary streak reaching to the nape, the lesser wing-coverts, scapulars, sides of the back, the rump, the upper tail-coverts, and the whole lower plumage bright orange-yellow, many of the feathers more or less fringed very narrowly with brown ; median and greater coverts and the quills black, margined with olive-green ; tail orange-yellow, broadly tipped with black, the median pair of feathers black, with a yellow margin on the outer webs ; lores, round the eye, and the ear-coverts black.

Female. The whole upper plumage and the exposed parts of the