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Hills, from which locality there are numerous specimens in 

 the British Museum. Although Gould's type is labelled 

 "Himalayas," it agrees with the birds from the Khasia Hills. 

 These have also been described by Blyth as T. ruficapillum, 

 consequently there has been a good deal of confusion over 

 these two names. 



Major Harington also read the following note : — 



TROCHALOPTERUM ERYTHROCEPHALUM ERYTHROLCEMA Hume. 



Trochalopterum erythrolcema Hume, Stray Feathers, x. 

 p. 153 (188L). 



Trochalopterum holerythrops Rippon, Bull. B. O. C. xiv. 

 p. 83 (1904). 



" Like T. erythrocephalum, but the cheeks and throat 

 uniform with the crown." [Hume.) 



Up to the present one specimen only has been known, 

 the type of this species, which was obtained by Hume near 

 Matchi, Eastern Munipur. 



There are, however, numerous specimens of T. holerythrops 

 Rippon, from the Chin Hills, which agree with the type- 

 specimen of T. e. erythrolcema in showing no signs of the grey 

 supercilium so noticeable in T. e. godivini Harington from 

 N. Cachar and W. Munipur. It must have been with speci- 

 mens of this subspecies that Col. Rippon compared his 

 birds from the Chin Hills, and not with the type of T. ery- 

 throlcema Hume, as Col. Rippon says in his description that 

 his T. holerythrops is similar to T. erythrolcema, but has no 

 grey supercilium. 



The name T. holerythrops is therefore synonymous with 

 T. e. erythrolcema Hume. 



Bab. E. Munipur and the Chin Hills to Mt. Victoria. 



Mr. H. F. Witherby exhibited a specimen of Tchitrea 

 incei, collected by Captain H. Lynes, R.N., at Shanghai, on 

 the 16th of July, 1911. This was a male in a very inter- 

 esting stage of moult, half the plumage being old and 

 evidently that of the first winter, while all the new feathers 

 (in various stages of growth) were those of a bird in the 

 white phase. Mr. Witherby briefly described the bird as 



