1913.] H. C. Stuart Baker : Birds. 261 



[a) &, Sadiya, N.-E. Assam, 28-ii-ir. I.M. No. 



25271. 



(6) Not sexed. Rotung, March, iqi2. B.N.H.S. 



No. 18. 



(c) Not sexed. Mishmi Hills, Jan. — Feb. 1912. 



B.N.H.S {F.M.B.). 



This beautiful but conspicuous bird is common both N. and S. 

 of the Brahmaputra from the level of the plains to about 3000 feet. 



2. Dendrocitta frontalis (Maclell.). 



O. and B., vol. i, p. 33. 

 B. M. Cat., vol. iii, p. 78. 



{a) 5 , Kobo, 400 ft., i-xii-ii. I.M. No. 25287. 



The Black- browed Magpie is generally to be found at eleva- 

 tions far higher than this, seldom, indeed, below 2000 ft., but here 

 in the extreme N.-E. of the Empire, it is common both N. and S. 

 of the Brahmaputra in the foot-hills of the Himalayas extending 

 some way into the plains. Dr. H. N. Coltart found it common at 

 and around Margherita. 



Sub-family PARINAE. 



3. Parus major cincreus (Vieill.). 



O. and B., vol. i, p. 46. 

 B. M. Cat., vol. viii, p. 16. 

 Hartert, D.V.P., part iii, p. 345. 



(a) cf , Kobo, 400 ft., lo-xii-ii. I.M. No. 25351. 



Dr. Hartert, in his splendid work on Palaearctic Birds, has 

 gone very carefully into the sub-division and nomenclature of the 

 Titmice of this genus, Parus, and this particular sub-species of 

 Parus major which we, in India, have hitherto known as atriceps 

 will now have to be known as cinereits. The name cinereus (Vieill.) 

 dates from 1818 and not 1823 as shown by Oates and so un- 

 doubtedly has priority over atriceps ^ which dates four years later. 

 The specimen in this collection is a bird with a wing of 78" i mm. 



Sub-family PARADOXORNITHINAE. 



4. Scaeorhynchus ruficeps ruficeps (Blyth). 



O. and B., vol. i, p. 68. 

 B. M. Cat., vol. vii, p. 491. 

 Hartert, N.Z., vol. vii, p. 548. 



{a) Unsexed. Rotung, March 1912. B.N.H.S. 

 No. 17. 



