MGITHALISCUS, 97 
Distribution. Western China, Yunnan and N.E. Shan States. 
There are several specimens from the last place in the British 
Museum Collection. 
Nidification and Habits. Nothing recorded. 
(52) Aigithaliscus bonvaloti sharpei. 
THe Mr. Vicroria Buack-HEADED Trr. 
Aygithaliscus sharpet Rippon, Bull. B.O.C., xiv, p. 84 (1904) (Mt. 
Victoria, Chin Hills). 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. Similar to the preceding bird, but is wholly rufés- 
cept on breast and belly. The pectoral band is brownish and the 
black on chin and on the throat is V-shaped. 
Measurements. Wing 50 to 55 mm.; tail 48 to 51 mm.; “culmen 
0-3", tarsus 0°65" ” (Sharpe). 
Distribution. Higher mountains of the Chin Hills. 
Nidification and Habits. Nothing recorded beyond the fact 
that it is found in forests on the mountains of the Mt. Victoria 
chain at 5,000 feet and upwards. 
(83) Aigithaliscus leucogenys. 
Tan WHITE-CHEEKED Tir, 
Orites leucogenys Moore, P. Z. 8., xxii, p. 139 (1855) (Afghanistan). 
A:githaliscus leucogenys. Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 51. 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. Forehead, crown and nape pale reddish brown ; 
lores, a very broad band through the eye to the nape, chin and 
throat black; cheeks and ear-coverts white; upper plumage, a 
band over the ear-coverts, wing-coverts and the edges of the wing- 
feathers olive-grey ; winglet and primary-coverts dark brown; 
tail brown, the outermost feather with the outer web white and 
the inner tipped with white, the next feather obliquely, and the 
one next to this again very narrowly tipped with white; lower 
plumage reddish fawn, the portion immediately next the black 
throat deep rusty red. 
Colours of soft parts. Bill black; iris pale creamy or white ; 
feet pale orange, claws dusky or brown (Scully). 
Measurements. Total length about 130 mm.; tail about 
55 mm.; wing about 55 mm.; tarsus about 17 mm.; culmen 
about 8 mm. 
The young have the black chin and throat of the adult faintly 
indicated only and the colours duller. 
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