320 NOTES ON SOME BIRDS COLLECTED IN THE EASTERN OR 
280 B.—Buchanga pyrrhops, Hodgs.—(Vide S. F¥., 
III, 98.) 
The birds which have been referred to this species were as 
generally distributed and occurred in apparently as great abun- 
dance as the preceeding The following are the dimensions of 
four specimens recorded in the flesh :— 
Outer tail | Middle tail Bill from 
Sex.| Length. | Expanse.| Wing, feathers. | feathers. | Tarsus. gape. 
i|¢ 11:2 17°25 5°65 6:3 45 75 112 
2 ” 11 17°25 bi) 5:9 43 “75 1°15 
3 ” 11°5 17 5°6 6°4 4°5 "8 1:2 
4 10°75 17 5:4 55 43 “75 1°15 
In all four specimens. the irides were lake red, and the bill, 
legs, and feet, jetty black. 
[I should unhesitatingly refer all these eight birds, all 
precisely similar, and in which a regular gradation of size 
can be traced, to one species. They are all, with one exception, 
very typical, being light iron grey beneath, pale above, and 
very ashy on the tail. One specimen, however, is much closer 
to longicaudatus, the bill and the entire upper surface, includ- 
ing the tail, is absolutely inseparable from true longicaudatus. 
The breast and abdomen alone have the purer lighter grey 
tint of pyrrhops. In these respects this bird resembles several 
from Dacca, where the typical pyrrhops also is common. 
Most certainly typical dongicaudatus and typical pyrrhops or 
intermedius appear to be very different, but no observer, how- 
ever superficial, with an adequate series pefore him, can truth- 
fully deny that numbers of intermediate forms occur, which 
might be indifferently united with either, and under these 
circumstances I must reiterate the remark I long ago made, 
namely, that it is very doubtful whether it is expedient to 
separate specifically all these interblending races.—A. O. H.] 
282.—Chaptia enea, Vierllot. 
This species occurs very sparingly in the forest jungle near 
China-Ba-keer, but I have not met with it elsewhere. A male 
specimen measured in the flesh :— 
Length, 8-7 ; expanse, 13°8 ; tail from vent, 4°6 ; wing, 4°75 ; 
tarsus, °7; bill from gape, 1. 
Irides, dark reddish brown ; bill, legs, and feet, deep black. 
283.—Bringa tectirostris, Hodgs. 
This species was met with occasionally in the thick underwood 
of the tall forest jungle adjacent to China-Ba-keer, where, how- 
ever, it was scarce. ‘The following are the dimensions recorded 
