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be seen pursuing another from place to place, apparently in 

 the coarse of altercation. Its cry consists of a single plaintive 

 sort of note, slowly repeated, and the alarm note is a short 

 sharp sound, something like " tckick, tchichi''' &c. It certainly 

 breeds in the valley, and probably lays in June, but I did not 

 secure any nests. 



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301.— Glaucomyias melanops, Vig. 



Six adult birds, Valley, May, August and September. — Length, 

 6-0 to QQ ; expanse, 10 to 10-4 ; wing, 3-2 to 345 ; tail, 28 to 

 3-2 ; tarsus, 0-65 to 0*7 ; bill from gape, 0-64 to 0-73 ; bill St 

 front, 0'35 to 0*45 ; closed wings short of tail, 1*4 to IQ. 



Bill, feet and claws black ; irides very dark brown. 



Four young birds, Valley, August. — Length, 5"8 to 6'2 ; ex- 

 panse, ^-Q to 10 ; wing, 3-15 to 3-2 ; tail, 2'6 to 2"9 ; tarsus, 

 0-6 to 0-65 ; bill from gape, 0-63 to 0-65 ; bill at front, 034 to 

 0-37 ; closed wings shoirt of tail, 1*2 to 1"4. 



Bill horny black, the base of lower mandible brown ; gape 

 yellow ; irides blackish brown ; feet dusky leaden ; claws horny 

 black. In one specimen the sides of head and whole lower 

 surface, except the wing lining and axillaries, are profusely 

 spotted with fulvous, the spots on the throat and breast in- 

 clininff to golden colour ; in another there are whitish spots on 

 the nape and mid-back, the lower surface being spotted with 

 fulvous ; in the third example the breast and abdomen are un- 

 spotted ; and the fourth has only the neck, breast, and a line 

 down the abdomen thickly covered with white spots. 



The Verditer Flycatcher is tolerably common in the valley of 

 Nepal, generally frequenting the forests at the foot of the hills, 

 but straying into the central woods from time to time. It 

 ascends the hill to nearly 8,000 feet in the breeding season. It 

 ■was not observed in the valley in winter. 



304.— Cyornis rubeculoides, Fig. 



Three males, Valley, May and June. — Length, 5-4 to 5'9 ; 

 expanse, 8-.5 to 9'2 ; wing, 28 to 29; tail, 2*15 to 2-4; tarsus, 

 0-7 ; bill from gape, 0-7; bill at front, 0*47 to 0-5; closed 

 wings short of tail, 1*0 to 1*2 5. 



Bill black; irides dark brown; feet brown or dusky. Iden- 

 tical with specimens from Sikim, with which I have compared 

 them. 



The Blue-throated Redbreast is a seasonal visitant to the Nepal 

 Valley, where it breeds. It was only noticed in the central 

 woods and was not at all common. , ,? 



