300 TlMALIID.^i. 



Distribution. From Mulai-yit Mountain in Tenasserim, possibly 

 tlirouijii 8iain to tbe Shan States and Kuby Mines district. 



Nidification. Davison obtained a nest of this bird on Mulai-yit 

 made of bamboo lea\es, grass, moss and other materials and placed 

 in a small branch of a high tree growing in a ravine. It was taken 

 on i;lie lilst February and contained three eggs, pale spotless blue 

 and measuring about 29-3 XlT'O nun. 



Habits similar to those of the last bird. Davison describes 

 its note as a single, long-drawn, clear-sounding whistle. 



(315) Leioptila melanoleuca radclifFei, ? subsp. nov. 

 Radclifpe's Sim a. 



Vernacular names. ]\one recorded. 



Description. Differs from L. m. melanoleuca in having "the 

 whole upper parts glossy black with no trace of brown. 



Colours of soft parts and Measurements as in the last bird. 



Distribution. There are only three specimens from N.E. Central 

 BiuMna in the British Museum and one in the Bombay Natural 

 Histoiy Society's Museum from Taunghoo. These are marked 

 Liojdila radcliffei, but there is nothing to show by whom the mime 

 was written or where it has been published, if at all. 



Nidification aud Habits. Not reconled. 



(316) Leioptila castanoptera. 



Fea's Sibia. 

 Mulacins caataiioptera Salvador], Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen., (2) vii, 



p. m-?> (188'J) (Monte Carin). 

 Lioptila castanoptitra. Blanf. & Gates, i, p. 199. 



Vernacular names. None recorded. 



Description. Beseinbles Tickell's Sibia but is a darker bird 

 and has the greater part of the inner secondaries and greater 

 coverts chestnut. 



Colours of soft parts. Iris crimson ; bill and legs black. 



Measurements. A rather larger bird than the last ; wing 89 to 

 95 mm. 



Distribution. Kareuni aud "Western Shan States. 



Nidification and Habits. Nothing recorded. 



(317) Leioptila annectens annectens. 



Bja'tu's Sibia. 



Leioptila anyiecte mJMyih, J. A. S. B., xvi, p. 450(1847) (Darjeeling). 

 Lioptila annectens. Blanf. & Gates, i, p. 199. 



Vernacular names. Enbnun-pho (Lepclia). 



Description. Upper part of head and hind neck black, the 



