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yet know in either of the other provinces of British Burmah, 

 though Ramsay obtained it in Karenee. 



Another species that I failed to find in Manipur, and which I 

 have never seen from any part of Assam, Sylhet or Cachar, is 

 616. — Siva strigula, Hodgs., which Godwin-Austen procured in 

 the Khasi hills and includes in his Dafla hill list. This species 

 is said to have been obtained in the Tonghoo hills, and this may 

 be so, or it may have been the nearly allied Siva castaneicauda, 

 nobis, which replaces it further south in Tenasserim. Be this 

 as it may it is not known to occur anywhere else in British 

 Burmah. 



617.— Siva cyanuroptera, Hodgs. 



Common above 4,500 feet, alike in the Western and Eastern 

 hills. 



I only shot a few, and unfortunately both I measured were 

 males, though these are distinguishable from the females by 

 their rather larger size, the somewhat darker shade of the 

 back and purer tint of the tail and, generallt/, of the wings 

 also. 



Legs, feet and claws pale brown, often with a fleshy tinge : 

 (1) bill dull wax yellow, greenish dusky about nares and tip 

 of upper mandible ; (2) upper mandible pale brown ; nares, 

 gape, and greater part of lower mandible wax yellow ; irides 

 brown (?) I have this from the Khasi hills, and Godwin-Austen 

 includes it in his Dafla hill list, but there is no other record 

 as yet of its distribution in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. 



I do not think this occurs in British Burmah in the Tenasserim 

 hills. We found it replaced by the very closely allied form, 

 5. sordida, nobis. Ramsay is said to have procured cyanuroptera 

 in Karenee, but it may have been sordida. 



618.— Minla ignotincta, Eodgs. 



Only seen in the higher parts of the Eastern hills, where 

 it was by no means rare. 

 The following are particulars of some I measured : — 



Length. Expanse. Tail. Wing. Tarsus. Bill from gape. Weight. 



$ ... 5-65 8-0 2-2 2 55 083 0-64 0-51 oz. 



? ... 5-6 7-8 2 2 2-46 0-84 0-62 58 „ 



„ ... 5-6 7-75 2-2 2-45 89 O'S 05 „ 



