101 [Vol. xli. 



• Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker sent the following new 

 description : — 



Arboricola torqueola millardi, subsp. nov. 



Differs from A. t. torqtieola in having the chestnut of the 

 head darker and not so bright ; the breast is neither so dark 

 nor so pure a grey, but is more tinged with ashy ; the abdo- 

 men is not so pure a white, being nearly always strongly 

 suffused with rufescent. 



Tlie colours o£ the soft parts and the measurements seem 

 to be same as in A. t. torqueola. 



The adult female of this form differs from the adult female 

 of torqueola in much the same respects as does the male. 

 The chestnut of tlie throat is conspicuously paler, the 

 breast is a paler grey, and the abdomen is more suffused with 

 chestnut. 



Type. No. 89.5.10.818, British Mus.Coll. Hume Coll. S. 



It/pe-loraliti/. Koteghur. 



Distribution. Himalayas, north-west of Nepal and 

 Grarhwal. 



Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker also made the following 

 diagnosis of his new genus Nigravis, described in the 

 'Bulletin' of Oct. 13th, 1920:— 



"This bird was fully described by me in the 'Bulletin^ for 

 last October, and I there gave the generic ciiaracters, which 

 are also to some extent in this case the specific ; but, as some 

 readers appear to think this insufficient to satisfy technical 

 scientific diagnosis, I repeat them here : 



^'' Nigravis, gQXi. nov. General characters: short wing; 

 ratlier long, stout tarsi, typical of the Turdoidte. Primaries 

 5 h to 9th or 6th to 10th subequal; first primary about half 

 length of longest ; tail-feaihers very broad and much 

 graduiited ; nostril completely covered by an operculum ; and 

 leathers on either side of the base of the bill grow right up 

 to the posterior edge of the no-tril. Fiictal bristles veiy 

 short and three in number, fealhers of chin witli fine hair- 

 like tips.'' 



^ The type-locality as given in the ' Bulletin' above referred 

 to must be corrected from " Ban Sao, Siam " to " Ban Sao, 

 French Laos " (vide Kloss, Bull. B. 0. C. xli. p. 75). 



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