ASSAM, SYLHET AND CACHAE. 141; 



Length, 5"7 ; expanse, 8'0 ; tail, 21 ; Aving, 2'4 ; tarsus, 1"04 ; 

 bill from gape, 072 ; weight, 065oz. 



Legs and feet a warm fleshy pink ; bill pale brown above, 

 pale horny bluish below ; irides pale brownish red ; edges 

 of eyelids reddish. 



We have this — a single specimen only — from Mouflong in the 

 Khasi hills, and Godwin-Austen procured the type in the 

 Garo hills and obtained a second specimen in the Dekrang 

 valley in the Dafla Hill Expedition. 



391. — Stachyris nigriceps, Hodgs. 



I shot one specimen of this in the Eerung valley, and 

 again saw it quite close (but did not shoot it, as I was after 

 something else) on the Limatol range, both localities in the 

 Western hills, but I never met with it in either the basin or 

 the Eastern hills. 



The specimen I shot, a female, measured : — Length, 5:5 ; 

 expanse, 7'2 ; tail, 2"0 ; wing, 2'3 ; tarsus, 0"8 ; bill from gape, 

 07 ; weight, 0"53oz. The legs and feet were pale dull yellow ; 

 the upper mandible black, the lower pale bluish ; irides pale 

 brownish orange, with a pinky tinge. 



I have this from N.-E. Cachar, and from many localities 

 in both the Khasi hills and the Dibrugarh district, in both 

 of which it must be common. Godwin- Austen also says it 

 was common near Harmutti near the bases of the Dafla hills. 



Blyth records this from Arakan, and we have it from the 

 Pegu hills. In Tenasserim we found it generally, but sparsely, 

 distributed throughout the forests of the province. 



Godwin-Austen gives 393. — Stachyris ruftceps, Blyth, from 

 the Khasi hills. He may be correct, but as we have 3936*s. — 

 Stachyris rufifrons, nobis, not only from these, but also from 

 the Bhotan Dears on the one side and the Dibrugarh dis- 

 trict on the other, it seems probable that his bird was the 

 same. I did not meet with either form in Manipur, though 

 the latter probably occurs there, as it does also in the Pegu 

 hills and throughout Tenasserim, where, however, it is very 

 sparsely distributed. 



[In Dibrugarh 393. — Stachyris ruficeps, Bly., ia pretty 

 common in tree jungle, feeding about the undergrowth ; but I 

 only once came across 393&is. — Stachyris rufifrons, of which 

 there was a party of some ten individuals that were feeding 

 on insects off the flowers of a dense mass of creepers in heavy 

 forest. I got a male bird. — J, R. C] 



