218 RECENTLY DESCRIBED SPECIES. 
slight green tinge, and with a tendency to purple on the shoul- 
ders and wing-coverts; tail black with green reflections ; 
_ primaries black, white at base, forming a wing-band ; secon- 
daries warm sepia-brown. Beneath dull, but dark greenish 
grey ; upper tail-coverts black, tipped white, and arranged in 
bars. All the tail feathers tipped with white, except the two 
centre ones ; bill and legs, yellow. 
Length, about 9; wing, 5; tail,3°5; tarsus, 1:4; bill at 
front, °91. 
Appears numerous in Munipur Valley, where the type was 
obtained.—Ibis, 1875, p. 251. 
Pnoepyga Roberti, G.-Aust, and Wald, 
Above olive brown, each feather pale-centred and fringed, or 
tipped with dark brown ; lores albescent. Between the eyes and 
the rictus black. A well-defined streak extending from above 
the eye down each side of the head, fulvous ; ear-coverts cinere- 
ous at base, brown towards the tips; chin and throat pure white, 
each throat feather being terminated by a small black triangular 
drop; as the tips of the feathers overlap, these drops form con- 
tinuous black lines, the two principal ones descending from the 
angles of the under mandible; cheeks ferruginous; each 
feather with a black terminal drop; pectoral and abdominal 
feathers pale brown, with broad pure white or fulvous-white 
centres; under tail-coverts bright ferruginous yellow; plu- 
mage on the rump loose, soft, and dense, completely concealing 
the short tail, and being of an almost uniform ferruginous 
brown colour; wings, when closed, dark chocolate-brown, 
most intense on the secondaries. Most of the wing-coverts dis- 
tinctly tipped with almost pure white, so also the inner tertiary 
quills; rectrices, chocolate-brown; mandibles, dark brown ; 
legs, pale horn-brown. 
Bill, from nostril, :37; wing, 2°15 ; tarsus, °75; tail, 1:15. 
Described from specimens obtained at Chakha,in the Munipur 
hills, and also at Asalu. 
In general appearance this bird closely resembles Turdinus 
brevicaudatus. ‘The upper plumage of the two is almost identi- 
cal. By its much smaller dimensions and diminutive tail, 
however, it can be readily distinguished. It is the Pnroepyga 
caudata, Blyth, apud Godwin-Austen, (J. A. 8S. B., 1870, p. 101. 
No. 331).—Jdis 1875, p. 252. 
Pnepyga chocolatina, G.-Aust. and Wald, 
Above olive-brown, each feather fringed with a somewhat 
fainter tint, thus imparting a subdued scaly aspect to the back ; 
wings and tail, chocolate brown; upper and under tail-coverts, 
ferruginous brown, brightest on the under coverts; lower 
