1 9 13.] E. C. Stuart Baker : Birds. 265 



(b) Not sexed. Misshing, 2800 ft., Feb. 1912. B.N. 



H.S. No. 50. 



(c) Not sexed. Between Kalek and Misshing, 15 — 18- 



iii-i2. I.M. No. Z5266. 

 {d) cf , Upper Rotung, 2i-i-i2. I.M. No. 25278. 



All four of these specimens are somewhat darker, and also have 

 less of a reddish tinge than the specimens in the British Museum. 

 At the same time the latter skins which are nearly all from the 

 Southern Shan States are mostly old specimens and the oldest are 

 palest and most red, so that, possibly, the difference is due onl}" 

 to their having become somewhat bleached. It must be noted, 

 however, that in being so dark in colouration Sibia picaoides 

 merely agrees with the general trend in the plumage of the birds 

 of these hills. 



17. Lioptila anncctens (Blyth). 



O. and B., vol. i, p. 199. 

 B. M. Cat., vol. vii, p. 80. 



{a) Not sexed. Misshing, 2800 ft., Feb. 1912. B.N. 

 H.S. No. 35. 



The elevation is somewhat low for Blyth 's Sibia, but I have 

 seen it quite as low down in the N. Cachar Hills in winter and 

 nearly as low as this in the Khasi Hills. It extends north of the 

 Brahmaputra River from Sikkim to Karennee, meeting its southern 

 range — which extends throughout the Khasi, Garo, Cachar and 

 Naga Hills — to the east of Dibang and the Dihang Rivers. I can 

 see no variation in its colouration throughout this wide area. 



18. Lioptila pulchella (God.-Aus.). 



O. and B., vol. i, p. 200. 

 B. M. Cat., vol. vii, p. 407. 



{a) Not sexed. Kalek, i9-iii-T2. I.M. No. 25269. 



[b) " cr , Indoling, Dibang Valley, Mishmi Hills, 

 4-ii-i2, about 4500 ft. Bill black, legs greyish 

 brown, soles yellow." [F.M.B.). 



In these two specimens the whole of the cheeks, ear-coverts 

 and patch behind the latter are black. This appears, however, to 

 be only an individual variation for the series collected by Godwin- 

 Austen in the Naga and Dafla Hills have the ear- coverts, etc., 

 ranging from brown with • practically no sign of black to wholly 

 black. 



19, Actinodura egertoni egertoni (Gould). 



O. and B., vol. i, p. 201. 

 B. M. Cat., vol. vii, p. 403. 



(a) Not sexed. Rotung, March 1912. B.N.H.S. 

 No. 46. 



