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Himalayan birds not separable from some of the best coloured 

 Manipur and Shillong birds. 



I give exact particulars of some of the Manipur specimens :— 



Legs and feet pale brownish fleshy to pale brown, with a faint 

 fleshy tinge; gape and bill pale jellowish horny; more or 

 less of upper mandible (it varies in every specimen) a paler 

 or darker brown, and occasionally a little brown on the subter- 

 minal portion of the lower mandible also ; irides pale blue 

 to greyish white, often tinged orange or brownish immediately 

 round pupil. 



We have this species from Shillong and the Khasi and 

 Naga hills; Godwin- Austen obtained it on the Burrail 

 range. All these of course the paler form, but on the 

 Shengorh peak of the Dafla hills he obtained specimens of 

 this species, which, as might have been expected from the local- 

 ity, were identical with the more rufous Sikhim form. 



This species does not extend to British Burmah, whence so far 

 no species of the genus has been recorded, but just outside its 

 north-east corner in Karenee, A. ramsayi was discovered, 

 which is very close to the pale form of egertoni, but differs in 

 its conspicuous white eye-ring, black-barred tail, primaries 

 barred throughout their length, &c. 



There are three other species at present classed in this 

 genus, which have occurred in Assam, of which I saw nothing 

 in Manipur, viz. : — 



(1) 4276is. — Adinodura waldeni, G.-Aust., procured by 

 him at 9,000 feet on the Japvo peak of the Naga hills, but of 

 the occurrence of which elsewhere I have no record. This is a 

 rufo-fulvous representative form of A. nipalensis, Hodgs. (not of 

 A. egertoni as G. -Austen says) with conspicuous white-streaked 

 ear-coverts. 



(2) There is 427guaf. — Adinodura oglii, G.-Aust., procured 

 on the Manbhura Tila on the Tenga Pani river near Sadiya at 

 about 800 feet, of the occurrence of which likewise there is no 

 other record as yet. I have never seen this bird, but to judge 

 from the plate it has not the smallest title to be included in this 



