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margined on the outer webs with French grey ; the tertiaries 

 more or less washed with the colour of the back, and these and 

 the later secondaries narrowly margined at the tips with 

 white; the lower parts from the throat bright gamboge 

 yellow ; the whole of the middle of the breast more or less 

 strongly suffused with a tinge of the throat colour ; axillaries, 

 wing-lining and inner margins of quills silky white. 



The female differs in being altogether duller coloured above 

 and below ; in having the chin and upper throat a sort of 

 dull pale fawn colour, and the lower throat and entire breast 

 yellow ; in having the chestnut, and a far paler shade of this 

 than in the male, confined to the cheeks or nearly so ; in having 

 the white tips of the median and greater coverts (which are 

 brown instead of black) replaced by light chestnut ; in having 

 the grey margins of the quills nearly obsolete, and the outer 

 webs of the secondaries especially much washed with a tinge 

 of the back colour, and in much the same change having taken 

 place in the lesser coverts. 



We have this from Shillong, and Godwin-Austen records 

 it from Hengdon and Cherrapoonjee, and beyond this I know 

 nothing of its distribution in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. 



I do not know of its occurrence in British Burmah. Blyth 

 recorded it from Tonghoo, but it is questionable whether the 

 bird he referred to did not belong to A. intermedins, nobis, 

 which we have from the higher Tenasserim hills, and which 

 is much nearer to the true A. cenobai-bus, Tem. 



612.— Cutia nipalensis, Hodgs. 



I only once saw this species properly, and then there were 

 a small party hopping and running along the branches with a 

 rapidity that was surprising ; they were fully eighty yards from 

 me, and before I could get within shot they had raced from 

 tree to tree out of sight. But a few days later catchmg a 

 glimpse of something which I took for a small squirrel skurrymg 

 along a branch some 35 or 40 yards straight above me, I fired 

 a snap shot and down fell one of these birds. I never got a 



second specimen. „., ^ „ . xi. 



The bird I got was a lovely male. The followmg were the 

 particulars I recorded :— Length, 71 ; expanse, 11-2 ; tail, 2-1 ; 

 wing, 3-41 ; tarsus, 1-2 ; bill from gape, 0-9 ; weight, 2-05 ozs 

 Legs and feet rich wax yellow ; claws pale yellowish horny ; bill 

 black, pale leaden blue at gape and base of lower mandible ; 



irides brown. , , ^ n j t:i x 



Godwin- Austen records this from both the Datla and Jiastern 

 Naga hills, but I know nothing further as to its occurrence in 



