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Arracan are identical, those from Western Burma will require naming. 

 Mr. Stuart Baker in his "Birds of N. Oachar," J., B. N. H. S., viii., 

 p. 193, seems doubtful about iiis specimens from that locality, considering 

 them intermediate between the Burmese and the S. Indian forms, by- 

 splitting them up into geographical races, I think the variations will be 

 found to be constant. 



Description of Birds from Western Burma — 



Head and neck light ashy-grey, merging into the upper back ; lower back 

 and rump pale olive-grey ; ear-coverts pale greyish-brown ; chin and throat 

 whitish ; breast pale fulvous, flanks tinged with olivaceous. 



Wing, sex ? 66 mm. or 2-6." Female, 65 mm. or 2-55." Bill, 14. mm. 



Description of Birds from Assam — 



Head and neck dull brownish-grey, merging into the colour of the back ; 

 ear-coverts browner ; the remainder of the tipper plumage olive-brown ; the 

 exposed portion of the wings and tail yellowish-brown ; chin and throat 

 greyish ; breast and under plumage ochraceous with a decided rufous tinge. 



Wing : 3 S 6 , average 70 mm. (2-75"), [Max. 72 mm., min. 68 mm.] ; 

 2 2 $ , 66 mm. (2-6") ; 4 unsexed, 68 mm. (2-68"). Bill, 14-15 mm. 



Alcippe PHiEOCEPHALA HARiNGTONi^, Hartert. 

 The Upper Burma Quaker-Thrush. 



Hartert, Bull., B. O. 0., xxv., p. 10. 



Description. — Head and neck ashy grey ; two conspicuous black lines on 

 each side of the head and neck extending down to the upper back where 

 they converge ; ear-coverts light hair brown ; back and upper plumage 

 olive-brown ; outer edge of primaries and tail yellowish-brown ; chin, throat 

 and underparts ochraceous buff, to olivaceous on the flanks. 



Wing measurement of 6 specimens, average 67 mm. or 2'64", max., 70 

 mm. or 2-75.", min., 65 mm. or 2'55." Bill, 12-13 mm. 



Distribution. — Probably the whole of N.-E. Upper Burma and the 

 Northern parts of the Shan States. Both Dr. Anderson's and my speci- 

 mens were procured in the Bhamo Dist. There are also two of Col. 

 Bingham's specimens, from Yatsauk, Shan States, which are referable to 

 this species, to which he draws attention in the Ibis, 1903, p. 589. 



I only met with this species in the plains near Bhamo itself, and not in 

 the hills where A. fratercula is very plentiful. 



Alcippe ph^ooephala magnikostkis, Walden. 



The Lotver Burma Quaker-Thriish. 



Alcippe magnirostris, Walden, Blyth's Birds of Burma, p. 115 (1875). 

 A. phayrii, Sharpe, Cat., B. M., vii., p. 623 ; Gates, F. of B. I., i., p. 158. 

 Description.- — Head and neck brownish-grey almost ashy, and well defined 

 from the back ; two sooty-brown stripes on each side of the head and neck 

 extending down to the back : ear-coverts greyish-brown ; remainder of upper 

 plumage olive-brown tinged with grey on the back ; exposed portions of the 

 wings and tail yellowish-brown ; throat whitish, underparts ochraceous buft'. 

 Type from Karennee is in the British Museum. 



Wing measurement of 6 males ; average 71 mm. or 2*8", max., 73 mm. or 

 2-85," min., 69 mm. or 2-67". Female, 70 mm. or 2-7". Culmen, 13 mm. 



Distribution. — Most probably Siam, S. S. States, Karennee, and S.-E. 

 Burma to just north of Moulmein. 



Hume, Stray Feathers, iii., p. 116. "Birds from Pegu.''^ 

 "... .but in one respect it more closely resembles nepalensis, a point which 

 appears to have been overlooked, in that it exhibits the same sort of dark 

 streaks running backivards on either side of the nape that nepalensis does, only 

 in phayrei it is less strongly marked." 



