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fourths its length, remaining portion ashy. The first and second 
premolars in the lower jaw are very small, in the upper jaw they 
are still smaller and scarcely distinguishable without a lens, 
Length, head and body 1".7; tail 1”.5; ear (anteriorly) 07.5; 
forearm 1”.28 ; tibia 0”.5. 
Loe. Sikkim ; Simla ; Dalhousie. 
Subgenus, Aerivoula,* Gray. 
KX. fusca, Dobson. 
Resembles . picta very closely in its general form; on the 
outer side of the ear there is a wide emargination which forms the 
tip, and without which the ear would be regularly broadly oval as 
in Murina suillus; fur, above chocolate brown with paler tips; 
beneath of a somewhat darker shade of the same colour, the hairs 
tipped with yellowish-brown. ‘This species differs from K. Hard- 
wickit, Horsf. which it resembles in some respects, in the form of 
the ears, and colour and distribution of the fur. 
Length, head and body 1”.6; tail 1’.6; ear (anteriorly) 07.45 ; 
forearm 1”.3; tibia 0”.6. Loe. ? 
11. NotTEs oN A COLLECTION OF BIRDS FRoM SIKKIM,— 
by W. T. Buanrorp, F. G. S8., C. M. Z. 8. 
(Abstract. ) 
This is a description of a collection of skins made by Mr. L. 
Mandelli, together with a few notes on birds obtained at low 
- elevations in Sikkim by the writer. Three species are described 
as new, and two others, Zosterops simplex, Swinh. and Luspiza 
rutila, Pall. are added. to the fauna of ths Eastern Himalayas. 
The new species are— . 
1. Phylloscopus pallidipes, sp. nov. Brownish olivaceous above, 
rump a little more rufescent, lores and a line through the eye to 
the upper part of the ear coverts dark brown, supercilia white, 
elongate, quills earthy brown with rufescent olive margins, cen- 
tral tail feathers the same colour as the back, outer ones earthy 
brown edged with olive. Lower parts silky white, sides of breast 
olivaceous. Under wing white. Bill dark above, pale below, legs 
very pale coloured. Wing 2°05 inches, tail 1:7, tarsus 0°76, bill 
* As restricted by Tomes, Ann, and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1858. 
