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08. Hair-crested Drougo — Chibia hottentotta, (i53o). 

 Common. 



t)0. Lesser Racket-tailed Drongo — Bhrinya remifcr. (339). 



Very common. The birds nost very low down here, often in 

 a fork of a bamboo within reach of the hand. 



70. Mt. Victoria Tree-Creeper — C-rtma rictona-. (344a). 



Shot a bird, identified as this by the late Col. Harington, in 

 the south of the area, and another identified by us in 1914 as the 

 next species in the North. 



71. Hume's Tree-Creeper— C^ rMi« manipurensis. (34.'i). 



Shot off the nest a bird identified as this, in the extreme north 

 of the area. Probably in this area, the forms are intermediate, 

 approaching C. manipurensis in the north, and C. victoi-ice in 

 the south. The bird identified by us as C. manipurensis was 

 shot on the Chin Hills — Manipur boundary, (actually, I think 

 about 2 yards inside Manipur). We obtained 2 nests with eggs 

 of this bird, the eggs being of the ordinary type, and measuring 

 •67", and •69"x-o0". c/3, slightly set, 29th April 1914 and c/4 

 1st May 191o (one egg broken), measuring -64'', -64", -64' x •45", 

 •4o" and -47". The nests were in both cases pads of fibres, moss, 

 and a few roots, with a feather or two in the lining, not large, 

 and scarcely hollowed out at all in the centre, placed in holes 

 in small trees, at 8' and 10' high. Elevation 6,000'. 



72. Mt. Victoria Wren — Urocichla oatesi. (355 b). 



Eggs and nest, Cy'3, hard set, on oth May 1914. 



73. Indian Tailor Bird — Orthotomus sutonus. (374). 



Nest, and bird, at 2,500'. 



74. Franklin's Wren-Warbler — Franklinia gracilis. (382). 



75. Beavan's Wren-Warbler — Franklinia rufecens. (383). 



76. Tenasserim White-tailed Willow- Warbler — Acanthopneustc 



dacisoni, (430). 



Got a bird which I think was this and several moss nests 

 containing tiny white eggs which I think must belong to it. 



77. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher-Warbler — Abrornis supercilians . (440). 



A nest with 4 eggs, taken from a hole in a bamboo brought in 

 with the parent bird in 1913. 



78. Swinhoe's Reed- Warbler — Urosphena squamiceps. (457). 



I shot a single specimen of this in December 1914, in thick 

 jungle, playing about among the rocks in a small chaung 

 forming the Burma Chin Hills boundary. 



79. Brown Hill-Warbler — Suya crinigera. (458). 



80. Austen's Hill- Warbler —iSwya ^•Aas^rtwa. (460). 



