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saved by this, which enabled me to identify him as a bird I 

 did not want, when peering into the twilight under the bases 

 of the dense undergrowth in search of the many skulkers 

 that affect such hiding places. 



The following are measurements, &c., of a few I shot : — 



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Legs and feet (1) pale silvery brownish fleshy ; (2) pale silvery 

 fleshy ; (3) pale silvery drab ; (4) pale greyish brown. Bill 

 (1) pale bluish horny, basal portions of upper mandible 

 dusky ; (2) lower mandible, gape, tip and edges of upper man- 

 dible bluish, or horny white ; rest of upper mandible dusky ; 

 (3) pale fleshy, blackish at base on nares and culmen ; (4) 

 pale horny bluish, dusky on nares and base of upper man- 

 dible. Irides light or lightish brown in all. 



This species we have from Shillong and various places 

 in the Khasi hills, and from Sadiya and several other places 

 in the Dibrugarh district, and God win- Austen includes it in his 

 Dafla hill list, but beyond this I have no knowledge of its 

 distribution in Assam, Sylhet, or Cachar. 



[Common in suitable localities in the Dibrugarh district. — 

 J. R. C] 



This species occurs in Arakan, Northern Pegu (where, 

 however, it must be rare, as I have only seen one specimen 

 from the Pegu Yoma), and Northern and Central Tenasserim. 



38862S.— Alcippe phayrei, Bly. {= A. magnirostris, 

 Wald., and A.fusca, G.-Aust.) 



I procured single specimens of this species near Koom- 

 biron, near Kalanaga and in the Eerung valley, but met 

 with it nowhere else. 



They are not separable from Burmese specimens, of which 

 we have an enormous series, but they run slightly smaller, and 

 seem to be more decidedly bufify fulvous, not indeed than one 

 or two of the Burmese birds, but than the great bulk of these. 



The following are details of the three Manipur specimens i^ 



Length. Expanse, Tail. Wing. Tarsus. Bill from gape. WeigJii. 



S ... 6-5 8-5 2-55 2-63 0-83 0'67 064 oz. 



-^ ... 6-45 8-6 2-6 2-8 085 0-72 065 „ 



$ ... 6-2 8'0 2 5 2-55 077 65 0-63,, 



Legs and feet brownish fleshy ; bill brown, paler and 

 yellowish at base of lower mandible and yellow at gape ; 

 irides light to reddish brown. 



