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width of the central band of the lower breast and abdomen. 

 Feathers of the chin, throat and upper breast, with terminal 

 fan -shaped shaft spots, blackish brown to almost black, small 

 on the tiny feathers of the chin, large on the larger feathers 

 of the upper breast. In some birds (and I noticed this in the 

 fresh bird) these spots seem to arrange themselves in regular 

 stripes, while in others they seem quite irregularly placed. 

 Sides of the breast, body and flanks much the same colour as 

 the upper surface and varying with this ; lower tail-coverts 

 a duller or brighter ferruginous ; longest flank feathers 

 tipped with a tint usually intermediate between that of the 

 abdominal band and the lower tail-coverts, and some of the 

 vent feathers often (not always) similarly tinged ; wing- 

 lining rather ochraceous buff, sometimes pure, often dingy, 

 except just at the shoulder of the wing and the bases of the 

 first two or three primaries where it is a greyish brown. I have 

 this species from Mouflong in the Khasi hills, and it was de- 

 scribed originally from a specimen obtained near Cherrapoonjee, 

 but there is no other record of its occurrence in Assam, Sylhet 

 or Cachar, nor is it known to extend to any part of British 

 Burmah. 



415A.— Trochalopterum erythrolsema, Hume. 



This species, fully characterized, S. F., X, 153, was only 

 met with in the Eastern hills, and even there only on one 

 occasion. 



Nothing at present is known, I believe, of the occurrence 

 of this species elsewhere. 



In Assam we have the allied 4156es, — Trochalopterum 

 riificapillum, Bly., of which I have great numbers from near 

 Shillong, where it is very abundant, and which God win- Austen 

 shot on the Hengdon peak, but of the distribution of which 

 elsewhere nothing further is known. 



No description (at all complete or accurate) of this species 

 seems ever to have been published, and I may endeavour to 

 supply this now. 



T. ruficapillum, Bly. — The following is an abstract 

 of the dimensions of 2 1 specimens of both sexes : — Length, 

 9 85 to 10-75 ; expanse, 11-6 to 12-8 ; tail, 365 to 

 475 ; wing, 3-6 to 4 25 ; tarsus, 1-4 to 1"65 ; bill from gape, 

 0-9 to 1-2 ; weight, 1-97 to 2-53 ozs. 



Many of the birds measured were clearly not quite 

 mature. One fine adult male, a fair average specimen of 



