292 TIMALIID A, 
Measurements. Total length about 110 mm.; wing 51 to55mm.; 
tail about 54mm.; tarsus about 22mm.; culmen 9mm. 
Distribution. Mt. Victoria and highest peaks of Chin Hills. 
Nidification. Nests taken by Mr. F. Grant on Mt. Victoria 
were similar to those of FP. v. vinipecta, being made of grass and 
leaves thickly bound together with green moss, the leaves only 
showing through in small patches here and there; the lining was 
of fine roots and in shape the nests were rather deep, w ell-made 
cups. They were placed in low bushes in forest. Two eggs sent 
me by Mr. Grant are like those of Hodgson’s Fulvetta but 
measure only 16°3 x 13:0 mm. 
Habits. Those of the genus. It is found on Mt. Victoria up 
to 9,000 feet. 
(307) Fulvetta manipurensis. 
Tue Manipur Funverta. SFO 
Proparus manipurensis O.-Grant, Bull, B.O.C., xvi, p. 128 
(Manipur). /\ 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. Similar to F’. v, vinipecta but differs in wanting 
the white supercilia and in having the flanks and sides bright 
tawny-rufous; the coronal stripes are chocolate, not black, and 
the lower back, rump and upper tail-coverts are dull ochraceous 
orange. 
Colours of soft parts. The legs in the dried skin are light 
brownish-yellow. 
Measurements. Wing 50 to 56 mm.; tail about 47 mm. ; tarsus 
about 22 mm.; culmen 8mm. 
Distribution. Obtained by Godwin-Austen on the Owen-khulno 
Peak, Manipur, and not again by anyone else. 
Nidification and Habits. Unknown; found at 8,000 feet. 
(308) Fulvetta ruficapilla sordidior. 
Rirron’s Futverra. 
Proparus sordidior Rippon, Bull. B.O.C., xiii, p. 60 (1903) (Talifu). 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. Lores and in front of the eye greyish; a white 
ring round the eye; forehead, crown and nape dull chestnut ; 
a faint grey supercilium and over that a black stripe; ear-coverts 
greyish brown; back and wings olive-grey; outer edge of first 
primaries bluish grey, inner black; lower back, rump and upper 
tail-coverts and tail fulvous; chin and throat grey, obsoletely 
striped ; breast vinous grey; flanks and abdomen pale fulvous. 
Colours of soft parts. “Iris dark brown; bill black-brown, 
lower mandible yellow-brown; legs and feet dark olive-brown ” 
(Rothschild, Novy. Gool., xxvii, p. 27), 
