588 Lt.-Col. C. T. Bingham on the 



13 (86). TllOCHALOPTERUM MELANOSTIGMA (Blytll). 



Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 92. 



Yengyi Palaung, 5000 ft., 11.1.02; Loi Maw, G000 ft., 

 4.4.02; Loi Pangnaw, west of the Mekong, 8400 ft., April 

 1902. ? <J. 



This species seems to vary very much in the colour of 

 the under parts and of the tail. The specimen from Loi 

 Maw has the " ferruginous " or reddish-brown colour of 

 the throat extending to the breast and faintly over the 

 abdomen, the tail being dark greyish brown, its margins 

 washed with green. Among the Mekong specimens, on the 

 contrary, some have only the throat reddish brown, others 

 have that colour extending to the upper breast ; while the tail 

 in all is green or dark greyish brown, washed all over, and 

 not only on the margins, with green. Quite recently, also, 

 Mr. Craddock, who is now in Pahang, Malay Federated 

 States, has kindly sent me a specimen of this bird which has 

 the whole of the under parts from the chin to the under tail- 

 coverts very dark ferruginous brown, the tail brown above 

 washed with olive-yellow, and black beneath. 



14. Trochalopterum ripponi Oates. 



Oates, Bull. B. O. C. xi. p. 10 (1900) ; Ibis, 1901, p. 529, 



pi. xi. fig. 1. 



MAnetaung range, Loilong State, 5000 to GO00 ft., 23.1.02. 



Trocnalopterum ripponi is a race of T. phoeniceum (Gould), 



nndei which name I recorded it in my previous paper on the 



birds of the Shan States. I there, however, drew attention 



to the differences between it and true T. phoeniceum. 



*15 (117). Pomatorhinus nuchalis Tweed. 

 Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 117. 



Kanlaung chaung, Loilong State, 1000 ft., 19.3.02; south 

 of Homam, Mawkmai State, 4500 ft., 14.5.02; Kalaw, 

 4200 feet, 22.1.02; Pyaunggaung, 2500 ft., Dec. 1900. 



These examples, though not typical, agree best both with 

 the description and with the type specimen of P. nuchalis 

 Tweeddale. This is a most puzzling bird, varying greatly 



