Birds of the Southern Shan States. 593 



upper tail-coverts, wing-coverts, scapulars, the outer webs of 

 the two inner secondaries, the breast, sides, and abdomen 

 clear ash-grey; the primaries, secondaries (with the ex- 

 ception noted above), and the tail hair-brown; the vent 

 and under tail-coverts light bright chestnut; the under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries, the lower portion of the abdo- 

 men, and some of the lower feathers on the thighs pale grey 

 with a wash of light chestnut. Bill, legs, and feet coral-red • 

 claws horny; a bare patch of skin round the eyes, con- 

 spicuously wider below the eye than above it. greyish, tinged 

 with yellow, the eyelids with a rim of bright vermilion-red • 

 ins whitish yellow to pale yellow. 



"The sexes are alike in plumage, and differ only very 

 slightly 111 size. Dimensions in the flesh :— 



"<?. Length 7-8", wing 3-8", tail 3-8", tarsus 07", bill 

 ironi gape 0-85". 



" ? . Length 7-8", wing 37", tail 3-85", tarsus 07" bill 

 from gape 0'85"." 



Kaunghpo, Me'netaung range, 6000 ft., 25.1.02. 



It is remarkable that this conspicuous bird was not obtained 

 on the high range dividing the Salween and Mekong valleys 

 It was procured first on Loi San Pa at and above 6000 ft • 

 Col. Rippon obtained it from Na Noi ; and Mr. Craddock 

 has now sent it from the high hills in the west of the Shan 

 States. 



49 (274). Hemixus iiildebkandi Hume. 

 Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 264. 

 Foot of watershed between Mong Kvat and Monr Han- 

 3000 ft., 6.2.01. 8 *' 



50 (275). Hemixus macclellandi (Horsf.). 



Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 265. 

 Menetaung, 6000 ft., 24.1.02 ; Loi Kaw, 5000 ft 5 4 <)•> • 

 Loi Maw, 6000 ft., 4,4.02. 



♦51. Hemixus holti (Swinh.). 

 Loi Pang Xaw, 6000 ft., April 1902. 



This is the species, 1 think, separated by Mr. Ilartert as 

 a subspecies of //. tickelll under the name 11. tickelli 



