2 Major G. Rippon on Birds from 



doubtful identification for me. Some of the rai'er birds I 

 propose depositing in the British Museum. I was very 

 fortunate in re-discovering Actinodura ramsayi and Sitta 

 magna after an interval of 20 years, and in procuring the 

 male of the latter for the first time. 



1. POMATORHINUS IMBERBIS, Salvad. 



2. Pyctorhis sinensis (Gm.). 



A point about this bird which does not appear to have 

 been noticed is that three or four black bristles spring from 

 the upper eyelids. In a freshly- killed bird they are very 

 conspicuous. 



3. Actinodura ramsayi (Wald.). 



I obtained one specimen of this in 1895, but did not 

 include it in my previous list, as I did not at first identify it, 

 there being no mention in ' Fauna of British India, Birds ' 

 (vol. i. p, 202), of the ring of white feathers round the eye, 

 very conspicuous in the freshly-killed bird. This specimen 

 I unfortunately mislaid before I could show it to Mr. Gates 

 in Mandalay. I shot another this year, and last year's bird 

 has now turned up. I have found since that the ring round 

 the eye is mentioned in ' Stray Feathers,' vols. iii. and xi., 

 pp. 404 and 171 respectively. In the description in ' Stray 

 Feathers ' (vol. iii. p. 404) it is remarked on as " eyelids 

 white;" but in vol. xi. p. 171, under A. egertoni, the con- 

 spicuous white eye-ring is mentioned. 



The habits of this bird are very like those of Lioptila 

 castanoptera ; it hops rapidly from branch to branch, fre- 

 quently uttering its call. The call of L. castanoptera is 

 three notes in the minor in a descending scale, preceded by 

 a flourish ; that of A. ramsayi is the same without the 

 flourish. Lioptila gracilis, which I found very common in 

 1892 above 3500 feet in the North Chin hills, on the road 

 from No. 3 Stockade to Fort White, had a very similar call, 

 but of five notes. 



4. ZoSTEROPS AUREIVENTRIS, HumC. 



It is hard to recognize some of the specimens obtained. 

 Some of them have the green upper plumage of Z. simplex, 



