490 RECENTLY DESCRIBED SPECIES. 
underside, the chin being grey in the Dafla bird, paling on 
the upper breast and belly to dull yellowish white ; while in 
the Munipur and Naga species, the chin and throat are deep 
black, fading to grey on the breast, into the white of the lower 
tail coverts. There is also a marked difference in size, this 
new form being the smallest of the genus now known. 
Above crown of head chrome-brown; back and rump, rusty 
olivaceous brown; tail very rich rusty brown, particularly near 
the base; frontal band, passing over the eye to the nape, black ; 
a white circle round eye, with a moustachial streak passing 
down the side of the neck of the same colour; ear-coverts, 
grey, surmounted by a small streak of golden yellow; chin, 
grey ; breast and belly, dull sordid white; under-tail coverts, 
white; flanks, grey; shoulder of wing, olivaceous; primaries, 
black, rufous at the base, forming a band, the outermost edged 
white ; their coverts, black ; secondaries, grey, edged rich rufous 
on the outer web, with a narrow white edging to the inner. 
Irides, dark brown; legs and feet, pale grey; bill, neutral 
rey. 
Length, 3°25 inches ; wing, 1°75, tail, 2°10, tarsus, 0°62; Dill 
at front, 0°25. 
Hab. The bamboo underwood of the forests at 5,000—7,000 
feet, Dafla hills, and first obtained on the slopes of Toruputu 
Peak in January. 
These curious little birds associate together in large flocks, 
making an incessant sharp twitter. They are most active, 
flitting rapidly about the foliage of the bamboos, of which the 
underwood is principally composed. They were the most 
fearless birds I ever met with, perching on twigs within a 
couple of yards of one’s head, so close that it was some time 
before I could fire at one without the certainty of blowing 
it all to pieces, and two specimens obtained I had to throw 
away. ‘The bright-coloured top of the head, set off with its 
black coronal edging’, is conspicuous as they fly and hop about 
the branches.—A. and M. N. H., January 1876. 
Minla Mandelli, God.-Aust. 
Above dark olivaceous ; tail, brown ; forehead, rufous, merging 
into the olivaceous brown of the top of the head; a white 
supercilium commences from above the eye, and extends to 
the neck, merging into some streaky buff and black feathers 
behind the ear-coverts; a black band surmounts the white 
one, but does not meet the black lores; ear-coverts, sooty ; 
chin, throat, and upper breast, buffy white; sullied white on 
,bdumen; flanks, olivaceous. Irides, dark red brown; legs 
