438 CERTHIID ®. 
eae (454) Certhia discolor fuliginosa, subsp. nov. 
Tar KARENNI TREE-CREEPER. 
Description. This little Creeper has hitherto been accepted as 
the same as the Sikkim Tree-Creeper, from which, however, it 
is very different. It is both darker and duller on the upper 
plumage, the brown blacker and the fulvous duller and less in 
extent; below, the whole plumage is a smoky brown with no tint 
of fulvous anywhere. 
Colours of soft parts and Measurements as in C. d. discolor. 
Type. No. 1903.12.24.363, not sexed. Loi-pang Nan, Mekong, 
7,000 feet. April 1902. H. M. Thompson & Craddock Coll. 
British Museum. 
Distribution. Shan States to Karenni. 
Nidification and Habits. Nothing recorded. 
(455) Certhia stoliczke. 
StrouiczKa’s TREE-CREEPER. 
Certhia stoliczske Brooks, J. A. 8S. B., xlii, 2, p. 256 (Sikkim) ; 
Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 332. 
Vernacular names. Dao-mojo-gajao (Cachari). 
Description. Upper plumage black streaked with fulvous; the 
wing-coverts black with fulvous tips ; rump and upper tail-coverts 
ferruginous; tail brown, the shafts reddish and the outer webs 
tinged with reddish ; quills dark brown, all but the first four with 
the usual oblique fulvous and black band; the quills tipped with 
buff and with a subterminal band of buff on the outer webs; chin 
aud throat whitish; feathers round the eye, supercilium and cheeks 
buff; centre of breast and abdomen pale fulvous; sides of these 
parts, vent and under tail-coverts deep ferruginous ; under wing- 
coverts and axillaries pale fulvous. 
Colours of soft parts. Iris red-brown; upper mandible dark 
horny-brown; base of upper and whole lower mandible pale 
horny ; legs and feet pale fleshy horny. 
Measurements. Wing 67 to 74mm.; tail 64 to 71 mm.; tarsus 
about 18 mm.; culmen 13 to 18 mm., generally about 16 mm. 
Distribution. Sikkim and Bhutan to E. Assam. I found it 
in the North Cachar Hills at 5,000 feet in winter and it possibly 
extends to the Naga Hills and Manipur. 
Nidification unknown. 
Habits. Those of the genus. In N. Cachar it haunted the 
stunted oak forests between 5,000 and 6,000 feet, scrambling in 
and out of the long moss which covered every tree and hunting 
for insects in the masses of orchids and long streamers of moss 
as well as in the crevices inthe bark. I never heard it utter any- 
thing but a very low squeak and it seemed a very silent bird. 
