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Karennee, and with exception of the stripes on the head are very like the 

 two above mentioned specimens in the Museum from Western Burma. 



A. p. davisoni, sp. nov. : From the south of Moulmein and Mergui and 

 Tavoy, we get a bird with no stripes on the head, or only very faint traces 

 of any. These are remarkably like A. brucei from Western India, and as 

 they cannot be that species I have called them after their collector. 



Key to Indian Sub-species. 



I. Bill small ; a conspicuous white ring round the eye. 



a. Chin and throat white ; flanks tinged 



olivaceous . . , . . . . . . . A. n. nepalensis. 



b. No white on chin and throat ; flanks tinged 



ochraceous. 

 «\ Wing under 66* mm. or 2-6" . . . . A. n.fmtercula. 



b^. Wing over 66' mm. or 2'6" . . . . A.'n. yunnanensis. 



II. Bill large ; no ring of white feathers round the eye. 



c. Head not striped. 



c\ Lower back and rump tinged rufous . . A. p. phceocephala. 

 d}. No tinge of rufous on back or rump. 



«-. Underparts tinged with rufous . . A. p. pliayrei. 



b~. Underparts not tinged with rufous. 



a^. Grey of head well defined from back A. p. davisoni. 

 ¥. Grey of head not well defined but 



merging into the colour of back . . A. p>. brucei. 



d. Head and neck conspicuously striped. 



e^. Stripes sooty brown . . . . . . A. p. onagnirostris. 



f^. Stripes intensely black . . . . . . A. p. haeringtvnice. 



Distribution. — A. n. nepalensis, Hodgson, Nepal, Sikkim, Butan, Assam, 

 Manipur, Naga and Chin Hills ; A. n. fratercula, Rippon, Eastern hills of 

 Burma, from Bhamo to Tenasserim ; A. n. yunnanensis, Harington, Yunnan ; 

 A. n. davidi, Styan, Western China ; A. n. hiceti, David, South China ; 

 A. n. peracensis, Sharpe, Malay Peninsula, Mt. of Perak ; A. n. cinerea, 

 Blyth, Malay Peninsula, and Borneo ; A. n. rufescentior, Hartert, Hainan ; 

 A. n. morrisoniana, Svvinhoe, Formosa ; A. p. phcBocephala , Jerdon, S. 

 India ; A. p. brucei, Hume, W. and Central India ; A. p. phayrei, Blyth, 

 Assam, Arracan, Manipur and W. Burma ; A. p. haringtonics, Hartert, 

 N.-E. Burma ; A. p. magnirostris, Walden, Karennee and E. Burma ; 

 A. p. davisoni, Sub-p. Nov., Tenasserim. 



Alcippe nepalensis nepalensis, Hodgson. 

 Hodgson's Alcippe or tTie Nepal Babbler, 



Siva nepalensis, Hodgson, Ind. Rev., 1838, p. 89. 



Alcippe nepalensis, Sharpe, Cat., B.M., vii., p. 620 ; Gates, F, of B. I., i,, 

 p. 157 ; Baker, J., B. N. H. S., viii., p. 192. 



Description. — A conspicuous ring of white feathers round the eye ; head, 

 neck and upper back ashy-brown with a vinaceous tinge ; a dark sooty- 

 brown stripe on each side of the head and neck extending down to the 

 back ; ear-coverts grey ; back olive-brown ; exposed portions of the wings 

 and tail yellowish-brown ; chin whitish , underparts pale fulvous to oliv- 

 aceous on the flanks. 



Bill in the dried skin particoloured yellowish and black. 



" Iris, hazel-brown ; bill livid horny ; the base of the upper mandible and 

 a line along the culmen black ; legs and feet livid fleshy." (Gates.) 



"Length, 5"; culmen, 11mm. ; wing, 2.3"; tail, 2.4"; tarsus, S^". (Gates.) 



Distribution. — Nepal, Darjeeling, Butan, Assam, Manipur, Naga Hills, and 

 the Chin Hills on the Western side of Burma, I have carefully examined all 



