636 AVES. 



Mr. Hume (Stray Feathers, iii, p. 116) records this species from Upper Pegu, 

 and speaks of it as being less rufescent than A, poiocephala. The only specimen of 

 the latter species which I have been able to compare is a Kattywar example 

 presented by Major Hayes Lloyd to the British Museum. This is perhaps not 

 quite typical, but it is certain that all my birds are very much more rufescent 

 than it. The other distinctions mentioned by Mr. Hume hold good. 



Genus Stachyris, Hodgson. 

 123. Stachyris nigriceps, Hodgson. 



Stachyris nigriceps, Hodgs., Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xiii, p. 378, 1844; id., Proc. Zool. Soc, 

 1845, p. 22; id., Ann. Nat. Hist., vol. xvi, p. 193, 1846; Gray, Cat. B., &c., Nepal, Hodgs., 

 p. 74, 1846 ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus., As. Soc., Bengal, p. 150, 1849 ; Bonap. Consp., Gen. Av., 

 p. 332, 1850; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. Ind. Co., p. 231, 1856-58; Jerdon, b! 

 Ind., vol. ii, p. 21, 1863; Godwin-Austen, Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, xxxix, p. 103, 1870; 

 Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. B., p. 242, 1873; id.. Stray Feathers, 1875, p. 117; Blyth & 

 Walden, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xliv, 1875, extra No., p. 116; Hume, Stray Feathers, 

 1875, pp. 13, 117, 322; Godwin-Austen, Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xlv, 1876, p. 75; 

 Gates, Stray Feathers, 1877, p. 152. 



Timalia nigriceps, Gray, Gen. B., vol. iii, App. p. 10, 1849; id., Handl. B., vol. i, p. 315, 1869. 



a, i Ponsee, 26th March 1868. 



b. Z „ April 1868. 

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This no way differs from specimens from Darjeeling and Arakanin the Calcutta 

 Museum. Neither Blyth nor Jerdon mention in their descriptions that there are 

 two rather obscure black white-edged bands on either side of the back of the neck, 

 the backward prolongations of a black, white-margined band which runs over the 

 eye and some distance behind the ear-coverts. The feathers between these two 

 bands are more brown than black posteriorly, but on the forehead they are darker. 

 The white margins of the head feathers arranged symmetrically in long lines 

 alternate with the dark ones. A dark-brown line from the lores passes below 

 the eye to its posterior angle, and another to the throat enclosing a large white 

 spot, at the angle of the mouth; on the throat it joins its fellow from the 

 opposite side, and they expand to form a dark-brown patch on the centre of the 

 throat and chin. 



The specimens are all from the low shrubby jungle about Ponsee. 



124. Stachyris chrys^a, Hodgson. 



Stachyris chrysaa, Hodgs., Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xiii, p. 379, 1844; Proc. Zool. Soc, 1845 

 p. 23; Ann. Nat. Hist., vol. xvi, p. 193, 1845; Cat. B., Nep., p. 75, 1846; Blyth, Cat. b! 

 Mus., As. Soc, Bengal, p. 150, 1849; Bonap. Consp., G. Av., p. 332, 1850; Jerdon, B. Ind., 

 vol. ii, p. 22, 1863; Gray, Handl. B., vol. i, p. 315, 1869; Godwin- Austen, Journ. As. Soc' 



