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Lastly, none of our birds has a particle of white on the 

 tail, which the Formosan bird has, and which is described as 

 a character of pallidus by Seebohm. 



I therefore incline to believe the Burmo-Assamic form 

 distinct, and shall name it provisionally Turdus aubpallidus, 

 nobis. 



I have this form from Shillong, and Godwin- Austen seems 

 to have got it at Cherapoonjee, to have noticed it frequently in 

 the Naga hills, and have obtained it on Japvo Peak and Herneo 

 Peak. We obtained at Mooleyit in Central Tenasserim and 

 Ramsay got it at 5,000 feet in Karenee, and this is all I know 

 of its distribution in Assam, Ciichar, Sylhet and British 

 Burmah. 



3692«««^o— Turdulus sibiricus, Pall. 



On some of the hills near Tankool Hoondoong these birds 

 were not uncommon, but they were excessively wary. They 

 were always in flocks in which the black males, though greatly 

 in a minority, were very conspicuous. Twice or thrice I saw 

 them on trees, but more often on the ground. I never suc- 

 ceeded in shooting one, but one of my men got a single 

 specimen, a female. The following are the details • — 



Length, 9'25 ; expanse, 14"0 ; tail, 3'25 ; wing, 4'7 ; tarsus, 

 1'15 ; bill from gape, 1*19 ; weight, 2ozs. 



Legs, feet and claws dull orange ; bill blackish brown, dingy 

 orange at gape and base of lower mandible ; irides brown. 



I have no knowledge of the occurrence of this species any- 

 where in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar, but in British Burmah 

 we obtained it both at Mooleyit and Nwalebo, in Central 

 Tenasserim, and Ramsay procured it in Karenee. 



370. — Oreocincla molissima, Bly. 



I only saw this species on one occasion, and that was on 

 the Limatol range, and then though I shot it I did not secure 

 it, but the bird is very common here* in winter, and I know 

 it well. It was not 15 yards distant from me, pottering about 

 on the ground and I was looking down on it. It did not notice 

 me, and I hesitated in shooting because in one barrel I had 

 a full charge of No. 4, which at that distance would have 

 knocked it to bits, and in the other only ^ dram of powder 

 and |oz. of dust shot, and I was not sure that this would kill it. 

 However I fired this and knocked the bird over, but it instantly 

 fluttered over the edge, and though I rushed after it, it 

 got away. Still the bird may be safely included in the 

 list, as I am certain of it. In the Eastern hills I twice or 



* Vi^t, at Simla. 



