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colour of the mantle ; throat, cheeks, breast and abdomen 

 a beautiful maize yellow, a little more intense on the two 

 first, more or less (scarcely at all in some) faintly shaded with 

 greyish olivaceous on the third and almost always very pure 

 on the last ; sides of breast, body and flanks greyish olive, 

 darker and greener, paler and greyer in different specimens ; 

 lower tail-coverts pure white ; tibial plumes pale pure 

 yellow to yellowish white, occasionally brushed here or there 

 with the greyish olive of the flanks ; edge of the wing at 

 carpal joint and wing-lining pale yellow to yellowish white, 

 often a little sullied. I am not aware that this species has 

 ias yet been observed anywhere in Assam, Sylhet, Cachar or 

 British Burmah. 



409gMw^.— Garrulax sannio, Swinh, 



I only met with this species high up in the Eastern hills 

 near Aimole, Kangooee and Matchi. Even here it was rare. 

 I tried my best to get a large series, as the only specimens 

 I had were Chinese, but I only succeeded in getting 13 from 

 first to last. I preserved nearly 100 of galbanus and o^ufi- 

 coUis, and could have got twice as many of the former and 

 ten times as many of the latter, so this will give some idea 

 of their relative abundance. Moreover ruficollis was the bird 

 of the entire level, galbanus of the basis of the Eastern moun- 

 tains and the low hills fringing these, while sannio I only 

 found at 4,500 feet and upwards on these mountains them- 

 selves. G.-Austen records a specimen from near Kaibi in 

 the Manipur basin, but I have never been there, and I do 

 iaot know what its elevation is ; but I much doubt the bird 

 being found down in the basin, i.e., at between 2,500 and 

 3,000 feet. 



The Manipur birds are exactly similar to others I have 

 from Foochoo from Swinhoe. The following are exact details 

 of specimens I measured : — 



The legs and feet are brown, usually a pale dove brown, 

 with or without a faint tinge of liver colour or purplish 

 fleshy, occasionally a dull slightly reddish brown ; claws 



