528 Lt.-Col. G. Rippon on the Birds 



the valley of the Tam-hpak (a river about 11 miles east of 

 Fort Stedman), elevation about 3000 feet, where I have seen 

 as many as eight together. In the plains of Burma I have not 

 found it much south of Bharao, where it is fairly plentiful 

 and remains the whole year round. 



4. Urocissa occipitalis (Blyth). (12.) 



Very common up to 5000 feet. I believe this Magpie is a 

 terrible poacher, and I have frequently seen it mobbed by 

 small birds. 



5. CissA cHiNENsis (Bodd.). (14.) 



I have not seen this bird below about 4500 feet in the 

 Shan States. 



6. Dendrocitta rufa (Scop.). (16.) 



7. GrARRULus LEUcoTis Humc. (25.) 



Fairly common at 4000 feet and over. I have found it 

 chiefly iu pine-forest. 



8. Parus minor Temm. & Schleg. (32.) 

 Very common above 4000 feet. 



9. ^githaliscus pulchellus. (Plate XI. fig. 2.) 

 j^githaliscus pulchellus Rippon, Bull. B. O. C. vol. xi. 



p. 11. (36 ff.) 



Habits and colours of soft parts similar to those of 

 jE. manipurensis Hume, for which I mistook it, until I 

 compared my skins with others in the Natural History 

 Museum. 



10. Machlolophus spilonotus (Blyth). (41.) 



Very common. It is seldom that a day's collecting between 

 4000 and 6000 feet passes without at least one of these birds 

 being included by mistake in the bag. 



11. Paradoxornis GUTTATicoLLis A. David. (52.) 



I have not met with this species below about 4500 feet. 



12. Sc^ORHYNCHUS GULARIS (Horsf.). (61.) 



Three specimens obtained, all above 5300 feet. 



13. Dryonastes CHINENSIS (Scop.). (64.) 



Fairly common above 3000 feet. This bird has an excep- 



