024 TIMELIID^. 



yellowish ; inside of mouth yellow ; iris whitish brown to pale 

 blue ; eyelids yellowish green or plumbeous, yellowish at the 

 edges; feet and claws ilesh-brown " {E. W. Oates). Total length 

 5'5 inches, culmen O'fi, wing 2'6, tail 25, tarsus OSo. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in plumage. Total length 5-5 

 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 2-5, tail 2-4o, tarsus 0'85. 



I have not seen a Tenasserim specimen of A. ni.palensia, but 

 Mr. Hume says that it occurs in that province. The specimens 

 enumerated below are all referable, I believe, to A. phayrii ; but 

 in the Tenasserim birds there is scarcely a trace of the blackish 

 streak on the sides of the crown which is very apparent in the 

 specimens from Upper Burmah collected by Dr. Anderson : it never 

 extends, however, so far down the sides of the neck as in A. nipa- 

 lensis. The ear-coverts are browner in A. phayrii than in the last- 

 named bird. 



Hab. Hills of North-eastern Bengal, extending through the 

 ranges of Burmah and Pegu to Tenasserim. 



a. cJ ad. sk. Bhamau, Upper Burmah, Dr. J. Anderson [C.]. 



Sept. 20, 1868. 



b. J ad. sk. Sawady, Upper Burmah, Dr. J. Anderson [C.]. 



Jan. 2.5, 1875. 



c. c? ad. sk. Bankasoon, British Biuraah, A. O. Hume, Esq. 



Junel3,1877( W.Davison). 



d. Ad. sk. Bankasoon, Dee. 24, 1875 A. O. Hume, Esq. 



{W.D.). 



e. $ ad. sk. Younzaleen creek, Salween A. 0. Hume, Esq. 



district, Dec. 20, 1873 



(W.D.). 

 f. cJ ad. sk. Malewoon, Tenasserim, A. 0. Hume, Esq. 



Feb. U, 1875 (W.I).). 

 g,h. S2 ad. sk. Malewoon, Dec. 1876. E. W. Oates, Esq. [C.]. 



7. Alcippe brunnea. 



Alcippe brunnea, Gould, P. Z. S. 1862, p. 280 ; id. Birds of Asia, 

 part xvi. (1864) ; Siviiih. Ibis, 1871, p. 297 ; id. P. Z. S. 1871, 

 p. 21G ; David S,- Oustalet, Ois. Chine, p. 217 (1877). 



Malacopteron brunneum, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 317, no. 4737 (1869). 



Ixulus snperciliaris, David, Ann. Sci. JVaf. (5) xix. art. 9, p. 4 (1874). 



Adult. General colour above warm fulvous-brown, the head a 

 little brighter than the back and slightly mottled with dusky margins 

 to the feathers ; wing- coverts like the back ; quills dusky brown, 

 the secondaries like the back, the primaries edged with slightly 

 paler fulvous-brown ; tail-feathers brown, washed with fulvous- 

 brown on the edges ; lores buff, slightly mottled with blackish 

 tips to the feathers ; round the eye a ring of bright fulvous fea- 

 thers ; ear-coverts fulvous-brown, obscured with dusky blackish 

 tips to the feathers ; sides of neck ashy fulvous, with a broad and 

 distinct line of black feathers running from behind the eye down 

 the side of the neck ; cheeks and under surface of body whity brown, 

 tinged with buff on the chin ; the sides of the breast with an ashy- 

 brown shade ; centre of body lighter ashy ; sides of body dark 



