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(454) Certhia discolor fuliginosa, subsp. nov. 

 THE KARENNI TREE-CREEPER. 



Description. This little Creeper has hitherto been accepted as 

 the same as the Sikfcim Tree-Creeper, from which, however, it 

 is very different. It is both darker and duller on the upper 

 plumage, the brown blacker and the fulvous duller and less in 

 extent ; below, the whole plumage is a smoky brown with no tint 

 of fulvous anywhere. 



Colours of soft parts and Measurements as in G. d. discolor. 



Type. No. 1903. 12.24.363, not sexed. Loi-pang Nan, Mekong, 

 7,000 feet, April 1902. H. M. Thompson & Craddock Coll. 

 British Museum. 



Distribution. Shan States to Karenni. 



Nidification and Haoits. Nothing recorded. 



(455) Certhia stoliczkse. 



STOHCZKA'S TREE-CREEPER. 



Certhia stoliczskas Brooks, J. A. S. B., xlii, 2, p. 256 (Sikkira) > 

 Blanf. & Gates, i, p. 332. 



Vernacular names. Dao-mojo-gajao (Cachari). 



Description. Upper plumage black streaked with fulvous; the 

 wing-coverts black with fulvous tips ; rump and upper tail-coverts 

 ferruginous ; tail brown, the shafts reddish and the outer webs 

 tinged with reddish ; quills dark brown, all but the first four with 

 the usual oblique fulvous and black band; the quills tipped with 

 buff and with a subterminal band of buff on the outer webs ; chiu 

 and throat whitish ; feathers round the eye, supercilium and cheeks 

 buff; centre of breast and abdomen pale fulvous ; sides of these 

 parts, vent and under tail-coverts deep ferruginous ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries pale fulvous. 



Colours of soft parts. Iris red-brown ; upper mandible dark 

 horny-brown ; base of upper and whole lower mandible pale 

 horny ; legs and feet pale fleshy horny. 



Measurements. Wing 67 to 74 mm. ; tail 64 to 71 mm. ; tarsus 

 about 18 mm. ; culmen 13 to 18 mm., generally about 16 mm. 



Distribution. Sikkim and Bhutan to E. Assam. I found it 

 in the North Cachar Hills at 5,000 feet in winter and it possibly 

 extends to the Naga Hills and Manipur. 



Nidification unknown. 



Habits. Those of the genus. In N. Cachar it haunted the 

 stunted oak forests between 5,000 and 6,000 feet, scrambling in 

 and out of the long moss which covered every tree and hunting 

 for insects in the masses of orchids and long streamers of moss 

 as well as in the crevices in the bark. I never heard it utter any- 

 thing but a very low squeak and it seemed a very silent bird. 



