( 4S2 ) 

 ■ K Spelaeornis longicaudata i Mooic). 



Piiof/if/f/t l'nitfic(t'(il ila Moore, Pmr. ZooL Site. Lonihn IH')!. p. 74 (Kha'^ia Hills, Iii'liii). 

 Piifiijii/ija rhorolatiiia Godwin-AiHten & Waldcn, Ihh 1H7.'). p. 25*2 (Manipur Hills) 

 Uruck'hh linif/irauda/'i Sharpe, O'l. li. liril, .I/hs. vi. p. 2(>3. 



Figure : iioiif. 



Kliasia and Miiiii|mr Hills in India. SjiL'cimi'ns in the British, Tring, and 

 other museums. 



<). Spelaeornis reptata (Bingham). 



Vrofii-lila irjiliihi Biagham, Bull. B. 0. Club xiii. p. 55 (Loi-Pang-Nan, Mekong Valley) 



Figure : none. 



Loi-Pang-Nan, s300 feet high, in the Mekong Valley. 



7. Spelaeornis caudata (151ytli). 

 (Plate VII., fig. 2.) 



Tf^ia ra'-iflut'i Blytb, Joni-n. J-s. Snr. Bengal xiv. p. 588 (1845. — Dai'jiling). 

 Pnor/>t/ijii caiithtl'i Sharpe, Cut. B. Bill. .Was. vi. p. 805. 

 Uroachla caudala Oate.s, Fauna Brit. India, Birds i. p. .341. 

 Sjielaeomis caudata Hartert, VOg. pal. Fauna i. p. 786. 



In high altitudes in the mountains of Sikkira, Himalayas. Specimeus in the 

 British, Tring, and other musenms. 



The Genus SPHENOCICHLA. 



This curious little genus, with a sharply pointed cuneitorm bill, consists of two 

 species only : S. huinri Mandclli, which inhabits Sikkini, and .V. roln'rti Godwin- 

 Anstea & Walden, from the mountains south of the Brahmaputra, in Assam (North 

 (/'achar Hills and JIanipnr). 



With regard to the former it is strange that it has not been procured recently. 

 As far as I know, it has only been procured by the late Mandelli's native collectors, 

 a fact from which one would conclude that it lived in the most inaccessible high 

 mountains of native {^ikkim. The Tring Museum, however, possesses one of the 

 skins obtained by Mandelli's men, which it received with the Elwcs collection, and 

 which is said, on its label, to come from Naiutchi, in Sikkim, and was shot 

 in April 1S75. The convent of Namtchi is only aTOD feet high, and not very far 

 from Darjiling. Absolutely nothing is known about the habits, nests, eggs, etc., of 

 either of the two Si>henoi:ichla. ((If Gates, Fauna B. India, liirih, i. j>. ;{3(;; 

 Hartert, lo'/. pal. Fauna, i. j). 787.) 



Spftenocichla rohcrti has recently been obtained by Dr. H. N. 'loltart in the 

 Naga Hills, three days' journey to the tS.M of Marghcrita, in Upper Assam. He 

 describes the iris as brown, feet dark Ijriiwn, the ujiper bill us dark hurn-brown, tij) 

 and lower mandible jialer horn-coldur. 



Sphcnocichla, humei is figured on I'late \'II., lig. 4. 



THE CGKUECT NAME UP THE '•(JKEEN BEE-EAT1';U." 



The little Green Bee-eater, now known under the name of " J/tvvy/.s' rirUlis^'' 

 marvellously lumped by Dresser, Sharpe, niaiilonl, and others, and judiciously sj)Iit 

 by Parrot, Neamann, and others, is, as everylxidy knows, on the upperside as well 



