BIRDS OF THE INDIAN EMPIRE. 459 



388. (183) *Lioparus vinipectus vinipectus. Hodgson's Ful- 



vetta. 



Siva vinipectus, Hodg., Ind. Rev., 1838, p. 89. (Nepal). 

 Himalayas, Simla to Sikkim. 



280. (383) Lioparus vinipectus austeni. Grant's Fulvetta. 



P. austeni, O.-Grant, Bull. B. 0. C. v, p. 3 (1895), 

 (Manipur). 

 Assam, South of Brahmapootra. 



390. (183) Lioparus vinipectus ripponi. Tie Chin Hills 

 Fulvetta. 

 p. ripponi, Harington, Bull. B. 0. C. xxxiii, p. 59 (1913). 

 (3It. Victoria.) 

 Chin Hills. 



291. Lioparus vinipectus sordidior. Rippon s 



Fulvetta. 



P. sordidior, Rippon, Bull. B. 0. C. xiii, p. 60, (1903) 

 (Talifu). 

 Yunnan, W. China. 



392. (183) I ioparus vinipectus manipurensis. The Mani- 



pur Fulvetta,. . 



P. manipurensis, O.-Grant, Bull. B. 0. C, xw, p. 1-26 

 (1906), {Manipur). 

 Manipur. 



393. (184) Lioparus chrysaus. The Golden-breasted Tit- 



Babbler. „ , ,.. u^ 



Proparus ? chrysa'us. Hodg., Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 84, 



(1844), {Nepal). 

 Sub-family Brachypterygin^. 

 Tesia and OUgura are probably Wrens, EUphrornis is 1 think, a Warbler 

 somewhere near Tn6Mra and Locus^ejZa.- Arrenaa a.rt true 



The other species are aAl TurdidcB, Myiophoneus ^"^^ ^"^^f "^ ^^ , "" 

 ThnthesaidThe other genera near the Sascicolin. hnt worthy of bemg 

 retained in a separate Sub-family. 



Sub-family Sibiin^. 



. * ♦„ ^oriicfrnta TJie Black-headed 

 ;. (204) Leioptila capistrata capistrata. 



295 



Sibia. 



Cta"o.o,»a capiBtratum, F-V,or... P. Z. S. (1881), V 56. 

 *g*rat";^UainiTaUoDaflaHm.. 



. , _i Yor the present I unite 



Frovarus is a synonym of Minla and caunot be usea j^;,^arus chrysceus, is 

 it with Lioparns of Blanford, the sole ^Pf "% °\,^,us Proparus in the Avifauna 

 generically very close to those birds placed in the .enus .r i^ 



of British India. 



