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(84) Ixops parLAENsis.—Austen Barwing. 
Oates, No. 214; Hume, No. 428 Bis. 
I got a single specimen of this bird at Shemkher on the borders of 
the Naga Hills. 
(85) STAPHIDIA CASTANEICEPS.—The Chestnut-headed.Staphidia. 
Oates, No. 216 ; Hume, No. 624 Bis. 
Forehead grey ; the feathers centred dark brown ; anterior crown 
dark rufescent-brown ; remainder brighter rufescent, almost chestnut ; 
nape grey ; upper back, scapulars, and upper tail-coverts greenish-grey 
with pale shafts ; lower back and rump grey, obsoletely tipped greenish- 
grey ; tail brown ; the third pair of feathers obsoletely tipped white, this 
white gradually increasing in extent until on the outermost pair it is 
about 5” deep; lores and a short supercilium white; ear-coverts 
chestnut with white shafts ; chin, cheeks and lower plumage white, 
more or less suffused with grey and toa less extent with fulvous ; 
under tail-coverts brown, broadly tipped with white ; lesser and median 
wing-coverts like the scapularies ; greater coverts and inner secondaries 
a more decided brown and with white shafts ; other quills brown, very 
narrowly edged with grey. 
Bill rather light reddish ‘horny, gape and base of both mandibles 
slightly purplish ; after death the whole bill becomes brownish horny ; 
legs dull reddish or flesh-colour; claws dusky flesh-colour ; irides pale 
hazel. 
Male.—Length: 5°83"; wing 2°5" ; tail 2:3"; bill at front °31"; and 
from gape ‘d1"; tarsus °55". 
The females seem to be slightly smaller ; length barely over 5! ; wing 
2:4"; tail 2°1"to 2:2"; bill at front ‘3" and from gape ‘5"; tarsus +63", 
Nipirication.— Until 1891 I had only taken one nest of this bird 
which contained eggs. It was found on the 11th July, 1890, and was 
taken from a high bank running parallel with, and only a short distance 
from, the road, where it was placed against, and partly under, a large 
clod of earth lying amongst the thick roots of a laurel-like shrub. 
The greater portion of the nest was composed of the very softest 
shreds of sun grass and a few scraps of equally soft bark. The outer 
side of the nest, where not touching the clod or roots, was more 
