300 TIMALIIDJE. 



Distribution. From Mulai-yit Mountain in Ten as se rim, possibly 

 through Siam to the Shan States and Ruby Mines district. 



Nidification. Davison obtained a nest of this bird on Mulai-yit 

 made of bamboo leaves, grass, moss and other materials and placed 

 in a small branch of a high tree growing in a ravine. It was taken 

 on the 21st February and contained three eggs, pale spotless blue 

 and measuring about 29'3xl7'0mm. 



Habits similar to those of the last bird. Davisou describes 

 its note as a single, long-drawn, clear-sounding whistle. 



(315) Leioptila melanoleuca radcliffei, ? subsp. nov. 

 RADCLIFFE'S SIBIA. 



Vernacular names. None recorded. 



Description. Differs from L. m. melanoleuca in having the 

 whole upper parts glossy black with no trace of brown. 



Colours of soft parts and Measurements as in the last bird. 



Distribution. There are only three specimens from N.E. Central 

 Burma in the British Museum and one in the Bombay Natural 

 History Society's Museum from Taunghoo. These are marked 

 Lioptila radcliffei, but there is nothing to show by whom the name 

 was written or where it has been published, if at all. 



Nidification and Habits. Not recorded. 



(316) Leioptila castanoptera. 



FEA'S SIBIA. 

 Malarias castanoptera Salvador], Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen., (2) vii, 



p. 363 (1889) (Monte Carin). 

 Lioptila castanoptera. Blanf. & Gates, i, p. 199. 



Vernacular names. None recorded. 



Description. Resembles Tickell's Sibia but is a darker bird 

 and has the greater part of the inner secondaries and greater 

 coverts chestnut. 



Colours of soft parts. Iris crimson ; bill and legs black. 



Measurements. A rather larger bird than the last ; wing 89 to 

 95mm. 



Distribution. Karen ni and Western Shan States. 



Nidification and Habits. Nothing recorded. 



(317) Leioptila annectens annectens. 

 BLYTII'S SIBIA. 



Leioptila annectensftlyth, J. A. S. B., xvi, p. 450(1847) (Darjeeling). 

 Lioptila annectens. Blanf. & Gates, i, p. 199. 



Vernacular names. Eabnun-pho (Lopcha). 



Description. Upper part of head and hind neck black, the 



