igi3.] E. C. Stuart Baker : Birds. 271 



Chittagong, Manipur, Arrakan and the Shan States are all typical 

 jerdoni, but over the whole of the immense intervening country it 

 is really hard to say to which race they are most closely allied. 



43. Abrornis supcrciliaris (Tick.). 



O. and B., vol. i, p. 429. 

 B, M. Cat., vol. iv, p. 402. 



{a) Not sexed. Rotung, 1400 ft., i2-iii-i2. I.M. 

 No. 25313. 



44. Abrornis albigularis (Hodg.). 



O. and B., vol. i, p. 430. 

 B. M. Cat., vol. iv, p. 405. 



{a) cf , Rotung, 1400 ft., no date. I.M. No. 25315. 



Family LANIIDAE. 



f 45. Lanius tephronotus (Vigors). 



O. and B., vol. i, p. 465. 

 B. M. Cat., vol. viii, p. 260. 



{a) 9 , Kobo, 400 ft., ii-xii-ii. I.M. No. 25254. 



(b) Not sexed. Misshing, 2000 ft., Feb. 1912. 

 B.N.H.S. No. 24. 



Both of these specimens are immature with the under-surface 

 considerably barred and the eye-streak undeveloped. Specimen 

 (6) also has the tail coverts strongly barred ; but (a), though the 

 younger bird of the two, has these latter immaculate. 



46. Hemipus capitalis (Maclell.). 



O. and B., vol. i, p. 472. 

 B. M. Cat,, vol. iii, p. 306. 



{a) & , Rotung, 1400 ft., ii-iii-12. I.M. No. 25319 



47. Pericrocotus speciosus (Lath.). 



O. and B., vol. i, p. 479. 



B. M. Cat., vol. iv, p. 71. 



Stuart Baker, B N.H.S.J., vol. xvii, p. 794. 



(a) cr' , Kobo, 400 ft , 9-xii-ii. I.M. No. 25352. 



(b) cf, Rotung, March 1912. B.N.H.S No. 52. 



(c) o', Misshing, 2000 ft., Feb. 1912. B.N.H.S. 



No. 55. 



These three Minivets are extremely interesting specimens and 

 strongly bear out what I have already noted in the Bombay 



