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garh district. I got my specimens from Tippook. Godwin- 
Austen his on the Manbum Tila on the Tenga Pani river near 
Saddia. The third has only been produced in the Central and 
Northern Tenasserim hills, and their offshoot the Karen hills. 
The following are particulars of the only two specimens of 
austent that I measured in the flesh :— 
Sex. Length. Expanse. Tail. Wing. Tarsus. Bill from Weight. 
gupe. 
are 102 10:7 4:5 3°66 1°26 147-18 of. 
aes. 100 11-0 4°75 3:5 18 Oy ae) ae 
Legs and feet pale grey brown with a dull green shade, or 
greyish olive; claws light brown or horny yellow, brownish 
towards tips; soles yellowish; bill coral red to orange ver- 
milion ; irides pale buff, or very pale orange, or white, with 
an orange tint. 
Lores, cheeks, and ear-coverts black, brownish on the latter ; 
a long narrow pure white supercilium from the nares nearly 
to the nape; entire upper surface a dull earthy olive brown, 
only on the head, and just behind the ear-coverts, a faint 
ochraceous tinge ; chin, throat, breast, and abdomen pure white ; 
flanks, sides, vent, and lower tail-coverts the same dull earthy 
olive brown, with a faint buffy tinge on the sides of the breast. 
Utterly different looking, as, owing to the great difference in 
colour, it is, this species is a washed out nonrufous edition of 
ochraceiceps, but this striking difference in colour is constant 
between a!l our Tenasserim and all our Manipur birds, and it 
is impossible to overlook or ignore it. The two birds are 
related to each other precisely as are P. horsfieldi and 
P. obscurus. 
This species has a more than usually loud chuckling call, 
which it emits perched up on some branch or sloping bamboo, 
sone five or six feet from the ground, in the midst of dense 
forest jungle. As soon as [ learnt its note, it proved to 
be common enough about all the higher forests of the Eastern 
hills, but I neither saw nor heard it elsewhere. 
Trochalopterum erythrolama, Sp. Nov. ? 
Like T. erythrocephalum, but with the cheeks and throat uniform with 
the crown. 
There is a small subgroup of Tvrochalopterums characterized 
by having more or less chestnut about the crown, occiput, or 
nape, the tail and wings conspicuously margined with 
unbroken golden olive or yellow, and a conspicuous wing-patch 
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