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Back of neck black ; sides of neck, between this and mandi- 
bular stripe, pale crimson, the white bases of the feathers 
showing through ; entire occiput intense crimson, the feathers 
lengthened so as to form a short full crest. 
Rest of upper surface black, (a little brownish on primaries 
and rectrices,) with the following white markings :—(1), secon- 
dary, greater and median coverts pure white; (2), all the 
quills, but the first abortive one, with white spots on both 
webs, forming in most cases imperfect bars, but there is only 
one white spot, quite at the base, on the outer web of the 
second (first long} primary, and on the next three there are 
no white spots on the inner webs corresponding with the one, 
two, or three terminal ones on the outer web ; (3), only ten visible 
tail feathers, the fifth on each side tipped with white, and with 
two white bars above this, the upper one more or less imper- 
fect ; fourth similar, but with only one bar; third with only a 
trace of a tipping. 
Axillaries and wing lining (except a black patch about the 
shoulder of the wing) white. 
I was sitting at the door of my hut, when the bird above de- 
scribed came and perched, or rather clung, on about the level of 
my eye near the top of asmall tree growing down the slope. 
My gun was on my lap and I instantly shot it. After that I 
hunted high and low for others, and on the 26th I shot another, 
a male. 
The male only differs in having the black mandibular stripes 
still broader, and in having the black streaking, which, in the 
female, is confined to the breast, denser, and extending over the 
upper abdomen, sides and flanks; in having the ground of the 
lower surface slightly darker; in the white spots on the quills 
being smaller and less conspicuous ; and in having less white on 
the lateral tail feathers. 
This may bea young bird, and the adult male may prove 
to be somewhat different, but the specimen seems adult. 
Certhia manipurensis, Sp. Nov. ? 
Like C. discolor, but with a longer bill; (0°82 against 0°75) with a pure 
buff throat and breast, and a dingy buffy grey lower abdomen, &§c. 
This was the only Creeper I met with in Manipur, and that 
only in the Eastern hills, where from 5,000 to 6,000 feet it was 
not very uncommon, though by no means abundant. 
Length. Expanse. Tail. Wing. Tarsus. Bill from gape Weight. 
ota (EB 82 272 276 064 0°76 0:36 oz. 
+ onee Od 80 2°85 2°6 0°64 07 0°32 ,, 
