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scattered splashes of crimson ; thighs slate-grey, each feather 
with broad white shaft-line ; crissum and under tail-coverts 
crimson tipped with whitish and with white shafts. 
2nd ¢. Forehead, crown, cheeks, and throat black, the 
cheeks and throat slightly washed with reddish and with 
paler shaft-stripes; upper surface darker slate-grey ; breast 
slate-grey, some feathers slightly washed with buff towards 
base, only faint traces of two red splashes; abdomen and — 
lower breast entirely suffused with apple-green. 
drd and 4th g gs. Forehead and cheeks black; crown 
and crest slate-grey, throat and cheeks somewhat suffused 
with rufous. 
9 ad. Forehead and crown rufous edged with brown ; 
occiput and crest slate-grey slightly tinged with brown ; 
back, rump, wings, and rectrices brown shaded with grey 
and densely freckled with buffish grey, primaries deep 
brown; underside greyish brown, paler freckled; chin 
rufous. 
Tris orange-y ellow; bill black; legs and feet scarlet ; claws 
dark brown. 
Habitat. Lichiang Range, 12-14000 feet, N.W. corner of 
Yunnan, lat. 27° 20', long. 100° 2’ Kast. 
Type. & ad., July 1918, in the British Museum ; collected 
Mr. George Forrest for Colonel Stephenson Clarke. 4 males, 
1 female obtained. 
This is a most interesting discovery, for it is the first time 
we learn that two species of [thaginis can occur in the same © 
area; this new species occurring in the same area as Jthaginis 
kusert Beebe. I think, however, it will eventually be found 
that kuseri inhabits a. different faunal zone of the mountain 
range to the one in which clarkei is found. 
Mr. Sruart Baker, on behalf of Messrs. Herbert (1. 
Robinson and C. Boden Kloss, described a new race of 
Short-tailed Babbler from Sarawak :— 
Anuropsis malaccensis saturata, subsp. nov. 
Distinguishable at a glance from the typical Malay form, 
