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32 Key to the Species.

a. Chin and throat white, in strong contrast to surrounding parts. a'. White of chin an and throat surrounded by a firm black band. a". Forehead and eyebrow fulvous A. moniliger, p. 32. b' . Forehead and eyebrow white A. leucops, p. 33. b . White of chin and throat not surrounded by a black band A. submoniliger, p. 33 b. Chin and throat buff or whitish, blending with surrounding parts. c'. General colour of lower plumage orange- buff A. poliogenys, p. 33. d'. General colour of lower plumage white, merely tinged with ochraceous on breast and flanks A. olivaceus, p. 34.

583. Anthipes moniliger. Hodgson's White-yoryeted Flycatcher.

Dimorpha monileger, Hodgs. P. Z. S. 1845, p. 26. Anthipes gularis, Blyth, J.A. S. B. xvi, p. 122 (1847). Anthipes moniliger (Hodgs.), Blyth, Cat. p. 172 ; Jerd. B. I. i, p. 477; Hume, Cat. no. 317 ; Gates in Hume's N. fy E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 13. Digenea moniliger (Hodgs.), Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iv, p. 460, pi. xiv, tig. 1 ; Gates, B. B. i, p. 300.

The White-gorgeted Flycatcher, Jerd. j Phatt-tagrak-pho, Lepch.

Fig. 13. Bill of A.

Coloration. Forehead and a short eyebrow bright fulvous ; lores, ear-coverts, and under the eye greyish brown with white shafts ; the whole upper plumage and sides of the head olive-brown tinged with rufous on the rump ; upper tail-coverts and tail dull ferru- ginous ; coverts and wings brown edged with ferruginous ; chin and throat white, surrounded on all sides by a black band ; lower plumage fulvous-olive, becoming white on the abdomen.

Bill black ; legs and claws pale fleshy ; iris dark brown (Jerdon).

Length about 5 ; tail 2 ; wing 2-4 ; tarsus '8 ; bill from gape '6.

The young nestling is no doubt spotted, but the youngest bird I have seen merely differs from the adult in not having the black band round the white of tbe throat.

Distribution. Sikhim up to about 7000 feet or so. Hodgson's specimens, now in the British Museum, do not appear to have been obtained in Nepal but in Sikhim.

Habits, <$fc. According to Mandelli, this species breeds in Sikhim