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A. fratercula, Rippon, occurs in the hills on the Eastern side of Burma, and 

 has been recorded from the Bhamo Dist. down to the hills in Tenasserim. 



A. yunnanensis, ^&vington — In the Museum there are a number of speci- 

 mens collected by Col. Rippon in Yunnan, these are consistently larger 

 and greyer than A. fratercula, and I think form a good geographical race. 



A. peracensis, Sharpe, inhabits the hills of the Malay Peninsula, this sub- 

 species is noticeable for wanting the white ring of feathers round the eye. 

 (N.B. — There are also specimens of an Alcippe from the Malay Peninsula in 

 the Tring Museum which, are labelled A. peracensis, these have a decided 

 ring of white feathers round the eye.) 



A. davidi, Styan, Western China ; A. liueti, David, Eastern China ; 

 A. morrisoniana, Swinhoe, the Island of Formosa;^, cinerea, Blyth, China; 

 A. rufescentior, Hartert, Hainan. 



(2) The Fh(eocephala Sub-Group. 



These are larger birds than the last, and have a longer and more curved bill; 

 two sub-species have conspicuously striped heads, and have consequently 

 been confused with the last group ; none have the white ring round the 

 eye so noticeable in^. nepalensis. They are more Timeliine in their habits, 

 frequenting the ground and dense under-growth, and the majority do 

 not ascend the hills to any great height. Their distribution also differs 

 from the last group ; commencing from the South and West we get, 



A. phceocephala, Jerdon, inhabits the hills of Southern India. 



A. brucei, Hume., Western India up to Khattiwar, the Central Provinces, 

 and the Parisnath Hills. (This sub-species is quite distinct from the first, 

 the differences being mentioned by Gates in the F. of B. I.) 



A. phayrei, Blyth, probably inhabits Assam, Arracan, and Western 

 Burma. It was first described by Blyth from Arracan, and he particularly 

 notes that the head is not striped. With regard to the distribution of this 

 sub-species, I have not been able to examine sufficient specimens from the 

 following localities so therefore cannot give its exact limits : — 



Arracan : the original locality from which this species was described, the 

 type of which, I believe, is in the Calcutta Museum. 



Western Burma: there are two specimens in the British Museum, one from 

 the Upper Chindwin, and the other from the foot of the Chin Hills ; both 

 these birds are identical. They are very grey above, have no stripes on the 

 head, and want the rufous underparts of A. phayrei from Assam. From 

 their distribution, I think, they will be found to be the same as the Arracan 

 species, and will therefore be A. pliayrei, but if the differences noted above 

 hold good and are considered sufficient to constitute a geographical race, 

 birds from Assam will be A. fusea, Godwin-Austin. 



A. harinytonice, HsLvtevt : a bird with conspicuous black stripes on the head 

 is probably found in the whole of North-Eastern Burma. At present has 

 only been recorded from the Bhamo Dist.; Colonel Bingham's specimens 

 from Yatsauk, Shan States, are also referable to this sub-species. In the 

 "Ibis," 1903, Col. Bingham notices the difference between his specimens 

 and birds from Tenasserim, but however, confuses them with A. fratercula 

 of the nepalensis group. 



A, onaynirostris, Walden : a bird with sooty brown stripes on the head, 

 specimens in the Museum from Karennee down to about the latitude of 

 Moulmein. This sub-species also probably occurs in the S. S. States and 

 Siam, as Count Glydenstolpe in his " List of Birds from Siam, 1911, 1912," 

 notes that his specimens have striped heads. 



I have not been able to examine any birds from Pegu, the original locality 

 from which Hume received his birds with a striped head. Two specimens 

 collected by Mr. J. P. Cook in the Thayetmyo Dist. and now in the Tring 

 Museum have striped heads, but are very much greyer than any from 



