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plumbeous, dark reddish brown, pale greenish with or without 

 a fleshy tinge, brownish yellow— no two were coloured alike 

 -all the colours dull, so that the difference is not so very 

 great as it looks on paper ; upper mandible, and generally 

 more or less of the tip of the lower one, deep brown to 

 blackish ; lower mandible and gape commonly yellow, or red- 

 dish yellow, sometimes a little brownish or pale reddish brown ; 

 irides deep brown. 



In Assam, Sylhet and Oachar I as yet only know of this 

 in the Khasi hills, where it must be fairly common, and m the 

 Burrail range of the Naga hills, where Godwin- Austen says 

 it is very common in the open forests. 



Blyth records it from Arakan, and we_ procured a single 

 specimen in Northern Tenasserim, and this is all I know of its 

 distribution in British Burmah. 



567.— Reguloides viridipennis, Bly. 



I procured one beautiful specimen of this rare species (the 

 true viridipennis) above Bishnoopoor, in the Manipur basin, 

 on the I7th of February, a little way only up the slope of the 

 Limatol range at an elevation of about 3,300 feet. 



It was a wiale, and the following are the particulars : — 

 Length, 4*4 ; expanse, 6-8 ; tail, I'T ; wing, 2-2 ; tarsus, 0-65 ; 

 bill from gape, 05 ; weight, 0-24oz. Lecjs and feet rather 

 pale brown ; soles yellowish ; upper mandible dark brown ; 

 lower wax yellow ; irides brown. 



This is not known to occur anywhere in Assam, Sylhet 

 and Cachar, and in British Burmah I only know of it in the 

 higher hills of Central Tenasserim. 



568.— Reguloides erochrous, Hodgs. 



Of this likewise I only got a single specimen at Aimole 

 in the Eastern hills at about 5,500 feet, on the 15th of April. 

 I supplement the details of this specimen with those of several 

 other specimens that I carefully recorded at Simla. 



* I suspect this was wrongly sexed. I marked it female with a query, and 

 it seems quite too large for a female. 



