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■ Legs and feet grey brown to greenish leaden^ with a wax 

 yellow tinge on toes (sometimes extending to the tarsi), more 

 decided in males than in females ; soles wax yellow ; upper 

 mandible and tip of lower blackish brown ; rest of lower 

 mandible horny grey or bluish greenish horny ; irides greyish 

 or brownish white. Jerdon says : " The female is white beneath 

 and the colours somewhat duller." As a fact, with a good 

 series, there is no appreciable difference in the colour of the 

 lower surface of the two sexes. The real differences are : ( 1) In 

 the male the upper back and scapulars are a sort of chocolate 

 brown, contrasting with the brown of the rump; in the female the 

 chocolate brown is wanting, and rump, back and scapulars are 

 unicolorous. (2) In the male the basal portions of the outer webs 

 of the quills are crimson ; this is wanting in the female. (3) In 

 the male the margins of the tail-feathers are crimson ; in the 

 females, a dull salmon red or pink. 



Godwin-Austen found this very numerous in the woods 

 about Sekhamih, Naga hills, in January, but I have no other 

 tecord of its occurrence elsewhere in Assam, Sylhet, Cachar 

 or British Burmah. 



6l8&i?. — Minla rufogularis, Mand. 



At Noongzai-ban in the Western hills I shot a single 

 specimen of this rare (in collections) species, and anxious 

 as I was to get more I never again met with it. 



The following are the details of my specimen, a female — 



Length, 50 ; expanse, 6-8 ; tail, 1-7 ; wing, 2-15 ; tarsus, 0-85 ; 

 bill from gape, 0-6 ; weight, 0-51. Legs and feet pale yellowish 

 horny brown ; bill black ; inside of mouth yellow ; irides (?). 



I have this from Dollah, near Sadiya, and Godwin- Austen 

 tells us that it was pretty numerous in the Dafla hills at 

 3,000 feet, but Tjeyond this we know nothing of its distri- 

 bution in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar, nor is it believed to extend 

 to any part of British Burmah. 



619. — Minla castaneiceps, HocZ^s. 



I found this species pretty common in the Eastern hills 

 in April and May at 4,000 feet and upwards. I did not see 

 it, though it is sure to occur there, in the Western hills. I have 

 this from Shillong and other places in the Khasi hills, but have 

 no other record of its occurrence in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. 

 This species is found in the higher hills of Central and Northern 

 Tenasserim, extending into Karenee, but does not, so far as 

 we know, occur elsewhere in British Burmah. 



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