354 Lord Waldcn on the late Colonel Tickell's 



melia leucotis, Strickl. The princiixil ditferenccs between the 

 two species appear to be : — first, the throat being white in T. 

 guttatus, while it is black in T. leucotis ; and, secondly, the 

 breast being ash-coloured in the ]Malaccan bird, and rufous 

 (orange-rusty), like the abdomen, in T. yuttatus. Colonel 

 Tickcirs species was described and figured from a female; but 

 he describes the male and female as being alike in plumage ; 

 yet, although he shot what he presumed to be the male, he 

 did not succeed in finding it. The form of the bill in the 

 genus Ttirdinus is so dissimilar to that of Timelia leucotis 

 that is difficult to assume that Blyth would refer a species 

 like Timelia leucotis to his genus Turdinus. Still, in Colonel 

 Tickell's plate, the bill resembles that of a Timelia rather than 

 that of a Turdinus ; nor is the plumage that of a Turdinus. 

 Turdinus brevicauda (so written by Colonel Tickell) is too 

 highly coloured; and the spots on the ti^js of the tertiaries 

 and greater wing-coverts are described and figured as being 

 white, whereas in all the examples I have seen these spots 

 are rusty fulvous, and in the excellent figure of the species 

 given by Mr. Gould (B. As. pt. 24) they are so coloured. 

 It may be that the Tenasserim type species differs from that 

 inhal)iting the Khasias. As some excuse for describing the 

 Khasia bird as new under the title of T. striatus, I may be 

 permitted to state that I did so at Dr. Jerdon's request, and 

 that when he gave me the specimen which I described (Ann. 

 N. H. (4) vii. p. 241) from, he assured me that it was new. 



Lieutenant Wardlaw Ramsay discovered Sibia picaoides 

 at an elevation of 5000 feet in Karennee (Blyth, B. Burma, 

 no. 319) ; and its occurrence in Burma had not been pre- 

 viously made known; but Colonel Tickell, who figures the 

 species from a Darjecling example, mentions that he killed it at 

 an elevation of 3000 feet in Tenasserim, and that " it inhabits 

 the whole Eastern Cis-himalaya and along the Malayan spur." 

 His plate represents the colouring of much too pale a tint. 



In February 1859, on the plateau of Mooleyit, in Tenas- 

 serim, at an elevation of G600 feet. Colonel Tickell discovered 

 a species of Sibia, which has not, so far as I know, been again 

 obtained. One example, that of a male, was secured ; and on 



