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back ; quills pale umber-brown, edged grey. Very narrow frontal 

 band ; base of lower mandible, lores tbrougb eyes and ear-coverts 

 rich black ; beneath dull yellow, purer on tbe throat, passing into 

 olivaceous on the flanks ; under tail-coverts white. 



Bill black ; legs ash-grey ; hides red brown. 



Length 9 inches, wing 3'65, tail 4-1, tarsus 1'35, bill at front - 8. 



I first obtained this very handsome bird in the Munipur valley, 

 under the Koupru range, in February 1873. It associates in large 

 flocks of from fifty to eighty or more, very noisy, following each other 

 in a long string through the high grass, which they seem to frequent 

 and prefer to the denser forest. When on the flight their white tail- 

 feathers and under tail-coverts of the same colour make them very 

 conspicuous. I observed it also on the head-waters of the Barak and 

 other streams that flow into the Munipur valley on the north-east. 

 The nearest allied species is G. gularis, M'Clelland, which is also 

 yellow on breast ; but is dark slate-grey above, with rufous on upper 

 tail-coverts, flanks, abdomen, and vent. 



GARRULAX ALBO-SUPERCILIARIS, n. Sp. 



Description. — Above, head and forehead reddish umber-brown, 

 paling on back of neck into dull olivaceous brown on the rump and 

 whole of the wing ; tail pale red-brown ; lores, a patch below eye, 

 under ear-coverts, and supercilium, which extends backwards for 

 1-5 inch from the lores, white; upper portion of ear-coverts 

 dark brown; chin and throat ruddy brown, paling on the breast 

 into very pale dingy olivaceous, and into pale earthy ochre on 

 abdomen and flanks ; under tail-coverts rufous. 



Bill black ; legs fleshy brown ; irides dull red. 



Length 9 inches, wing 3'8, tail 4'2, tarsus 1*38, bill at front 0'7. 



One specimen obtained in the Munipur valley, near Kaibi. 



This dull-coloured Garrulax is very similar in coloration to G. 

 rufifrons, Sw., of Java, which is a larger bird, and has no white 

 superciliaries or lower ear-coverts. Another similar form is G. 

 cinereifrons, Blyth, from Ceylon. 



Trochalopteron cineraceum, n. sp. (Plate XI.) 



Description. — Above pale ashy olivaceous, greyer on the tail, 

 which is black for 07" at the terminal end, then tipped broadly white. 

 Wing : quills pale black, edged hoary grey ; the secondaries tipped 

 black, and their square tips edged white, in keeping with the tail. 

 Primary coverts near the bastard wing black, forming a wing-spot. 

 Top of head black, extending in a narrow line down back of neck ; 

 lores and a broad band over eyes and ear-coverts dingy white ; a few 

 pure white feathers below eyes merging into ear-coverts ; a narrow 

 black line extends from posterior corner of eye over the ear-coverts, 

 and a moustachial streak of the same colour merges into indistinct 

 spots. Chin white, with a few hairy black streaks; breast and 

 underparts sullied white, with a slight vinous tinge on the 

 former, and a dash of ruddy rufous ou side of neck ; ochraceous on 

 belly and under tail- coverts. 



