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paler and greyer, less ruddy, and less warm upper parts, and 

 is usually paler on the under-wing, axillaries, flanks, and 

 paler reddish bay on the flight-feathers. I name this race 



Mirafra erythroptera sindianus, subsp. nov. 



Tyj^e. In Brit. Mus. 662, S - Karachi, Sind, 15. 4. 1918. 

 •Breeding {ex coll. C. B.T.). 



Type-locality. Karachi, Sind. 



Distribution. Sind, parts of (? whole) Punjab, Jodhpur, 

 east to Etawah. 



Jerdon's bird evidently came from the North Deccan, as 

 he says (' Madras Journal of Literature and Science,' 1840, 

 p. 33) : " I have only observed this species among the 

 stony and bushy hills or low jungly plains in the northern 

 part of the Deccan. I fix the type-locality therefore of 

 Mirafra erythroptera erythroptera as S.E. Berar.'^ 



(4) Tephrodornis pondicerianus pallidus, subsp. nov. 



Differs from the typical form in the paler upper parts and 

 paler brown ear-coverts. 



Type-locality. Larkhana, Sind. 



Type-specimen. ^ • In Brit. Mus. Larkhana, Sind, 

 4. 2. 1871 [ex Hume Coll.), No. ^^. 3. 1. 2423. 



Distribution. Sind, Punjab, Simla, Rajputana, western 

 part of United and Central Provinces. 



Gmelin's Muscicapa pondicerianus came from Coromandel 

 Coast (Syst. Nat. i. p. 939, 1788), and I restrict the type- 

 locality to Madras. 



Blyth's Tephrodornis a^nis, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 473 (1847), 

 came from Ceylon. Hume clearly pointed out (Stray Feath. 

 i. p. 435) the distinctiveness of T. p. aj/Jinis, T. p. pondi- 

 cerianus, and my T. p. pallidus, but did not name this north- 

 western bird. 



Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker exhibited the eggs of Ferdix 

 sifanica taken by Chinese N. of Batang in the north-east of 

 Tibet. They were sent to him as tbe eggs of Perdix 

 hodgsonia', but, though in appearance they cannot be distin- 

 guished from the eggs of that bird, the locality suffices 



