656 AYES. 



The general colour of the upper surface of these specimens is lighter than in 

 Indian birds, and the head and neck, instead of being deep black, are dusky brown. 

 The wings are of a lighter tint, and the spots on the wing-coverts are indistinct in 

 some and fainter in all, than in Indian birds. In one specimen a central tail feather 

 is tipped with white. 



160. Ehipidura albicollis, Vieill. 



Tlatyrliynclms albicoUis, Vieill., Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., vol. xxvii, p. 13 j Pucheran, ArcMv. du 

 Mus., vol. vii, 1854-55, p. 358, pi. xx, fig. 1 ; Hartl., Journ. fiir Ornith., vol. iii, 1855, p. 426; 

 Salvad., Ibis, 1877, p. 143. 



Rhij!)idurafuscoventris,Ym'nk\., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1831, p. 117; Sykes, Proe. Zool. Soc, 1832, 

 p. 85; Blyth, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xii, p. 935, 1843; Gray, Gen. B., vol. i, p. 259, 

 1846; id.. Cat. Mamm., &c., Nepal, Hodgs., p. 93, 1846; Horsfield & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. 

 E. Ind. Co., p. 145, 1854; Pucher., Archiv. du Mus., vol. vii, 1854-55, p. 358; Hartl., 

 Journ. fur Ornith., 1855, p. 426; Gray, Handl. B., vol. i, p. 331, 1869; Salvad., Ibis, 1877, 

 p. 143 ; Giebel, Ibis, Ornith., 1877, vol. iii, p. 222. 



Rkipidura albigula, Hodgs., in Gray's Zool. Misc., p. 84, 1844. 



Leucocercafuscoventris, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xv, p. 290, 1846; id.. Cat. B. Mus. 

 As. Soc, Bengal, p. 206, 1849; Jerdon, 111. Ind. Orn., p. 11, 1849; Bonap. Consp., t. i, 

 p. 324, 1850 ; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. i, p. 451, 1862; Godwin- Austen, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, 

 vol. xxxix, 1870, p. 100; Cock. & Marsh., Stray Feathers, 1873, p. 352 ; Hume, Nests and 

 Eg-gs, Ind. B., p. 200, 1873; Ball, Stray Feathers, 1874, p. 404. 



leiicocerca albicoUis, Hume, Stray Feathers, 1875, p. 103; Godwin-Austen, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, 

 vol. xlv, 1876, p. 71. 



a. t Bhamo, 1st February 1868. 

 6. „ 31st January 1875. 



c. $ Ponsee, 28th March 1868. 



d. t „ 25th April 1868. 



e. ? „ 3rd May 1868. 



These specimens agree in every particular with Bengal birds, but the wing- 

 coverts are finely and very obscurely tipped with rufous, and those of the under 

 surface are the same. The female from Bhamo has a minute rufous spot on two of 

 the feathers of the great wing-coverts, and there are faint traces of rufous on the 

 abdomen. These spots occupy the same position as the white spots of B. alUfron- 

 tata, but they are so obscure that they are liable to be overlooked. 



The habits of this bird are well described by Dr. Jerdon. I procured the 

 Bham6 specimens within the stockade, in a dense clump of jack trees, and the 

 Ponsee birds in a thicket on an old clearing at 3,500 feet. 



Family— ^^ J CEJTOBJIB^. 



Genus Hypsipetes, Vigors. 

 161. Hypsipetes yunnanensis, n. s. Plate L. 

 Hypsipetes yunnanensis, Anderson, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1871, p. 213; Swinhoe, t. c, p. 369. 



«. 5 Ponsee, Yunnan, 12th March 1868. 



