to ' The Birds of India.' 309 



tail deep brown or black, broadly tipped with pale grey ; quills 

 brown, the primaries being edged with glossy greenish black for 

 about half their length, the remainder with a narrow border of 

 pale yellowish white ; long tertiary nearest the body pale ashy 

 brown. Wing 3-|, tail 3-i, tarsus 1. 



This species replaced T. capistrata on the Khasias and other 

 ranges to the eastward, Godwin-Austen having found it tolerably 

 abundant in North Cachar. He observed it hunting for insects 

 in the flowers of the silk-cotton-tree [Bombax) . 



Another species {Sibia auricularis, Swinhoe), from Formosa, 

 has been figured (Ibis, 1866, pi. 4). 



431. ACANTHOPTILA NIPALENSIS. 



The chin and throat are white; the neck and breast rufesceut 

 brown, with dark stripes ; bill dusky ; legs horny brown. 



This interesting species was found by Captain Pinwill in 

 Eastern Kumaon, near Lohoo Ghat. He informed me that it 

 sings well. 



432. Malacocercus terricolor. 



I have observed, since the publication of the ' Birds of India/ 

 that this species extends over the whole of the N.W. Provinces 

 to the Punjab, and eastwards to Sylhet, w^hich is, I think, its 

 eastern limit. It is therefore the M. somervillii of Boyle^s list 

 of birds. 



433. Malacocercus griseus. 



Swinhoe gives this as found in Bombay, which is certainly an 

 error, M. somervillii being the only species, I believe, occurring 

 there. 



434. Malacocercus malabaricus. 



Some of Sykes's specimens of M. somervillii appear un- 

 doubtedly to belong to this species, which Blanford found to re- 

 place the former bird {M. somervillii) a little inland from the 

 edge of the Ghats. 



435. Malacocercus somervillii. 



Mr. Blanford found this well-marked race to be abundant at 

 Khandalla, on the top of the Bhore Ghat, — I having obtained it 

 in Bombay. This naturalist is the only one who has noticed this 

 species, besides myself, since Sykes's time ; and I think it clear. 



