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300 TIMALIID. 
Distribution. From Mulai-yit Mountain in Tenasserim, possibly 
through Siam to the Shan States and Ruby Mines district. 
Nidification. Davison obtained a nest of this bird on Mulai-yit 
made of bamboo leaves, grass, moss and other materials and placed 
in a small branch of a high tree growing inaravine. It was taken 
on the 21st February and contained three eggs, pale spotless blue 
and measuring about 29°3X17'0 mm. 
Habits similar to those of the last bird. Davison describes 
its note as a single, long-drawn, clear-sounding whistle. 
- (315) Leioptila melanoleuca radcliffei, ” subsp. nov. 
RavdcLiFFe’s SIBLA. 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. Differs from L. m. melanoleuca in having the 
whole upper parts glossy black with no trace of brown. 
Colours of soft parts and Measurements as in the last bird. 
Distribution. There are only three specimens from N.E. Central 
Burma in the British Museum and one in the Bombay Natural 
History Societv’s Museum from Taunghoo. These are marked 
Lioptila radecliffei, but there is nothing to show by whom the name 
was written or where it has been published, if at all. 
Nidification and Habits. Not recorded. 
(316) Leioptila castanoptera. 
Fera’s Sis, 
Malacias castanoptera Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen., (2) vil, 
p- 363 (1889) (Monte Carin). _ 
Lioptila castanoptera. Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 199. 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. Resembles Tickell’s Sibia but is a darker bird 
and has the greater part of the inner secondaries and greater 
coverts chestnut. 
Colours of soft parts. Iris crimson; bill and Jegs black. 
Measurements. A rather larger bird than the last; wing 89 to 
95mm. 
Distribution. Karenni and Western Shan States. 
Nidification and Habits. Nothing recorded. 
(317) Leioptila annectens annectens. 
Buiytn’s SIpia. 
Letoptila annectens Blyth, J. A. S. B., xvi, p. 450 (1847) (Darjeeling). 
Lioptila annectens. Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 199. 
Vernacular names. Rubnun-pho (Lepcha). 
Description. Upper part of head and hind neck black, the 
