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6. TuRDiNULus EPiLEPiDOTUs (Temm.), Sharpe, Notes 

 Leyd. Mus. vi. p. 172 (1881); Biittikofer, Notes Leyd. 

 Mus. xvii. p. 75 (1895). 



Myiothera muritia, Blyth (nee S. Miill.), Ibis, 1865, p. -17. 

 Specimen ia Brit. Mus. from : — 

 6- Mount jj^edeh, Java, Dr. Vorderman. 



This specimen agrees exactly with Dr. Sharpe's descrip- 

 tion of the type from Sumatra in the Leydea Museum, and 

 this species apparently inhabits both islands. 



\.—07i a new Species of Tit-Babbler from the Nay a and 

 Manipur Hills. By W. R. Ogilvie Grant. 

 While continuiug the incorporation of Col. Godwin- 

 Austen's Collection recently acquired by the Trustees of the 

 British Museum, I found five examples of a new species of 

 Tit-Babbler, as Mr. E. W. Gates calls the birds of the genus 

 Proparus, which had been wrongly identified with Proparus 

 vinipectus (Hodgs.). From this species, however, the Naga 

 and Manipur birds are easily distinguished, having the crown 

 and back of the head somewhat more rufescent, the bands 

 bordering the sides of the occiput and nape dark chocolate 

 instead of black, and the white on the underparts restricted 

 to the throat, the fore neck and chest being uniform vinous- 

 buff instead of white. I have called this very distinct 

 species after Col. Godwin-Austen, by whom the type 

 specimen was obtained in the Naga Hills. The following is 

 a full description : — 



Proparus austexi. 



Proparus austeni, Grant, Bull. B. O. C. 1895, no. xxix. 

 p. iii. 



Adult (type). Crown and occiput pale chocolate- brown 

 washed with rufous, the latter margined along the sides by 

 bands of deep chocolate, beneath which run the white eye- 

 brow stripes, which commence above the middle of the eye 

 and are continued backward to the sides of the nape. 

 Lores and car-covcrts deep vino us- brown; mantle much 



