1922.] dur'iiuj the First Mt. Ererest E.i'ped'ltiniK 505 



altitude as 14,000 £t. is very rcinurkable, since it is generally 

 considered to be a bird of the plains, though Biddulph 

 obtained an example at 5000 ft. in Gilgit in June. 



The only other instance I have been able to find of this 

 Cuckoo at a high altitude is in M. Babault's report on the 

 collection of birds he made in the Himalaya, where mention 

 is made of a specimen obtained near liohla (Rotang), Laliul, 

 at an elevation of 12,000 ft. 



[The only specimen obtained was being mobbed by a 

 number of Sparrows, when it was caught by the hand of 

 my Lepcha collector. — A. F. II. W.] 



Cyornis tricolor tricolor (Hodgson) . 



313 S 25.8.21 Kama Valley 12,000 ft. 



The correct name of the iSlaty-blue Flycatcher is ir/ro/or 

 of Hodgson (P. Z.S. 1845, p. 2G) and not leucomelanurus of 

 the same author. 



This bird is found from Kashmir to >Sikkim and northern 

 Assam, but some specimens from the two last localities have 

 a rusty tinge on the underside and are intermediate between 

 the true white-ballied tricolor and cervinlvenfris Sharpe, in 

 which the underside is rust-coloured. According to the 

 material in the British Museum, C. tricolor cerciniventris is 

 found in Manipur — the type comes from Kemta in that 

 Stiite,—Mt. Victoria, the N. Chin Hills, and S. Shan States. 

 S})eciinens from Yunnan and Kansu are intermediate like 

 C(;rtivin Sikkim birds, and so too are some skins from Sadya, 

 the Miri and Khasia Hills. 



Birds from Kashmir and Kumaon appear rather ditJ'erent 

 to typical specimens, and with more material may prove to 

 be a separate race. 



Trochalopterum henrici Oustalet. 



263 ? , 264 o Kharta 12,000 ft. ? Bill grey, feet brown. 



Prince Henry's Laughing Thrush was described by 

 Oustalet from specimens collected by Prince Henri 

 d'Orleans at So in eastern Tibet, and the only example in 

 the Natural History Museum is a female, obtained by 



