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greyish-brown, rather greyer on the lower back y rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts; the feathers in front of and below the 

 eye as well as the ear-coverts blackish ; chin and throat 

 white suffused on the sides with buff, the rest of the under- 

 parts white strongly washed with buff on the chest, sides of 

 the breast, and flanks. The wings are brownish-black, the 

 basal half of the primaries white forming a large and con- 

 spicuous speculum extending about 20 mm. beyond the 

 coverts; secondaries narrowly edged with whitish, the inner- 

 most more widely tipped with brownish-white. The outer 

 pair of tail-feathers white, the three following pairs white 

 with a black patch on the subterminal portion; the two 

 middle pairs brownish-black, narrowly fringed at the tip 

 with white. 



Total length in the flesh 220 mm.; wing 115 ; tail 84; 

 tarsus 25. 



Hab. Yemen, 7600 ft. 



Type in the British Museum : ? „ No. 701. Sanaa, 3. ix. 13. 

 G. W. Bury coll. 



Major H. H. Harington exhibited and described examples 

 of a new subspecies of Trochalopterum from the North 

 Cachar Hills, collected by Col. H. H. Godwin-Austen. He 

 proposed to name this form 



Trochalopterum erythrocephalum godwini, subsp. n. 



Adult. Similar to T. e. erythrolcema Hume, from E. Muni- 

 pur, but differs in having a conspicuous grey supercilium ; the 

 forehead much greyer, and the underparts less heavily spotted. 



This subspecies is intermediate between T. e. erythrolcema 

 from E. Munipur and the Chin Hills and T. e. chrysopterum 

 Gould from the Khasia Hills. It differs from the latter in 

 having well-marked black spots on the neck and breast, 

 instead of brownish lunar markings, but it resembles the 

 latter in having a conspicuous grey supercilium. 



Hab. North Cachar Hills. 



Type in the British Museum : adult. Hengdan Peak. 

 Col. H. H. Godwin-Austen coll. 



Obs. T. e. chrysopterum Gould is peculiar to the Khasia 



