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The female bas the lores, chin, and feathers at the base of the 

 lower mandible mingled grey and pale fulvous, and there is a 

 very narrow pale fulvous frontal band. The vest of the fore- 

 head, crown, and occiput are somewhat olivaceous grey; the 

 feathers margined paler, producing a scaly appearance. The 

 entire mantle olivaceous, becoming rusty on the upper tail- 

 coverts; tail feathers dull brownish chestnut, margined more rusty 

 towards their bases ; wings hair brown, the feathers maro-ined 

 externally with a rusty olivaceous; throat, sides of the neck, 

 and breast, greyish olivaceous, with a broad pale creamy lono-ihi- 

 dinal band towards the base of the throat ; abdomen, sides and 

 flanks like the breast, but more albescent and greyer ; lower tail- 

 coverts pale creamy buff, with narrow longitudinal pale brown 

 central stripes ; wing-lining and axill'aries yellowish white. 



314 — Niltava sundara, Hodgs. 



Blyth says this occurs in the mountains of Tenasserim. 

 Lord Tweeddale says that Wardlaw Ramsay obtained it in 

 Karennee at 4,000 feet. 



We have never seen it in the Tenasserim Hills, but it is curi- 

 ous that Davison there found plenty of Cyornis vivida, which he 

 sharp sighted as he is, mistook and sent me for this present species 

 and it is not impossible that others may have made the same 

 mistake. 



315.— Niltava macgrigoriae, Burton, (l). 



(Karennee at 5.000 feet, Earns.) Salweeu E. north, of Pahpoon. 



A mere straggler to the hills of the northern and perhaps 

 the central sections of the province. Davison looked specially 

 for it about Mooleyit, but during his prolonged stay there failed 

 to find it. 



The specimen for which I had formerly suggested, if distinct, 

 the name of vivida differs from the great majority of Sikim 

 specimens in its brighter tints, and in having the chin, throat, 

 and breast almost precisely the same color as the back, instead of 

 black, with a purplish tinge as in the great majority of Darjeel- 

 ing specimens ; but I find in my museum a Sikim specimen of 

 macgrigorice not separable from the Tenasserim Hill form, and 1 

 have therefore no doubt now that this should stand as macgri- 

 gorice. We have not enough specimens to enable us to deter- 

 mine whether really the Tenasserim form averages much bright- 

 er than the Himalayan form* 



[I obtained a single male of this species in the hills to the 

 north of Pahpoon. It was seated among some low bushes on 

 the banks of a forest stream, and kept seizing insects on the 

 wing, exactly after the manner of a Flycatcher. — W. D.J 



