232 NOTES ON SIKHIM BIRDS. 



Sikhim, and Bhutan birds — the chin and upper throat are deeply- 

 rufous. Ear coverts dingy rufous, and loreal patch light fulvous. 



0. 85. Trochalopterum nigrimentum.— Very com- 

 mon. 



0. 92. T. squamatlim. — In regard to the two varieties 



noted by Gates, page 97, I note that three specimens, all males, in 



November, December, and Januaiy, have bronzed tails, and all 



have fulvous-brown lores. Seven specimens (1 male and 2 females in 



November, 1 female in each of the months of Januaiy, March, May, and 



December) have black tails and darker chin, the thi-oat, under- 



surface, the vent, and upper tail coverts are very much darker, and 



in all these the females have gi'oy lores and the males slightly fulvous 



ones, excepting two females which have slightly fulvous lores, and in 



one of these, an adult of May, the secondary and tertiary quills are 



white-tijjped. None of the others have white-tij^ped quUls except one 



male — also black-tailed — from Daling in March, which has faint traces 



of white tips in two of the secondaries. If would thus almost appear 



that the difference in colour of the tail was sexual, and that the ' one 



male' with black tail has been wrongly sexed. 



0. 137. Gampsorhynchus rufulus.— The chin and 



throat are also pure white. 



0. 163. Alcippe nepalensis.— Most of the specimens 

 have the forehead feathers well covered and adhesive with pollen and 

 resins. 



0. 211. Actinodura egertoni. — Each of the 17 birds has 

 the median tail feathers barred throughout — Gates' key to the species 

 of this genera is misleading and needs alterations. 



0. 277. Alcurus striatus.— Two are from 1,500 and 

 2,500. Gates puts lowest limit at 5,000. 



0. 284. Molpastes leuCOgenys.— Two females; margins 

 of additional feathers faintly washed with sulphureous. 



0. 288. OtOCOmpsa emeria. — The small size of Sikhim 

 and Br. Bhutan si^ccimcns is notable. Adults in March, 1892, three 

 (two 7" length, one 7^0"' length), while my Assam specimens measured 

 8^" to 7-1%" length, but most/?/ 7f". 



0. 490. PericrOCOtuS speciOSUS.— In two females there 

 is an extensive washing of scarlet on forehead, throat, breast, and 

 thighs. 



0, 498. P- Solaris. — Smaller one has a grey head. 



0. 506. Campophaga melanoptera.— All of the speci- 

 mens have long grey hairs on nape and occiput. Gates does not give 

 this species north of Arrakan, but this bii-d has a general coloration 

 much lighter than C. melanoschista, and its additional coverts are white. 



0. 630. Henicurus maculatus.— Gates gives Nepal as 

 the eastern limit of this species, but the Lepchas are quite familiar 



