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which forms a pale spot ; nude space round the eye dark gre}^, ar\d a rufous 

 patcli from base of hill to under the e^^e. 



L. 10-5/' W. 40/' T. 4-75/' t. IG," Bf. 090/' 



409c. Gaeeitlax albosupeeciltaeis, Godwin-Austen, Plate VI. 



Described in the P. Z. S, for 1874 as follows : " Above head and forehead 

 reddish umber-brown paling on back of neck into dull olivaceous brown of 

 the rump and whole of the wing ; tail pale red brown ; lores, a patch below 

 eye, under ear-coverts, and supercilium which extends backwards for 1^ inches 

 from the lores, white ; upper portion of ear-coverts dark brown ; chin and 

 throat ruddy brown, paling on the breast into very pale dingy olivaceous, 

 and into pale earthy ochre on abdomen and flanks ; under tail-coverts 

 rufous." 



Bill black ; legs fleshy brown ; irides dull red. 



Length 9-0," W. 3-8,'' T. 4'2," t. 1-38,'' bill at front 0-7/' 



One specimen obtained in the Munipur valley, near Kaibi. 



This dull coloured Garrulax is \^ery similar in coloration to G. ritfifrons, 

 Sw., from Java, which is a larger bird and has no white supercilium nor 

 white lower ear-coverts. Another similar form is P. cinereifions, Blyth, 

 from Ceylon. 



4092'. Gaeeulax galbantjs, Godwin-Austen. 



Figured and described in P. Z. S. for 1874 as follows : " Above pale 

 pure olivaceous on head, with a brown tinge on the back ; tail pale 

 ashy-brown, the four central feathers tipped umber brown and barred, 

 the four outer of the same colour in middle and broadly tipped with white ; 

 wing concolorous with back ; quills pale umber brown edged grey. Very 

 narrow frontal band, base of lower mandible, lores through eyes and ear 

 coverts rich black ; beneath dull yellow, purer on the throat passing into the 

 olivaceous on the flanks ; under tail-coverts white. Bill black ; legs ash 

 grey ; irides red brown." 



L. 90," W. 3-65/' T. 4-1," t. 1-35,'' Bf. OS." 



I first obtained this very handsome bird in the Munipur valley under 

 the Koupru range, in February 1873. It associates in large flocks of from 

 fifty to eighty or more, very noisy, following each other in a long string 

 through the high grass, which they seem to frequent and prefer to the denser 

 forest. When on the flight the white of their tail-feathers and under tail- 

 coverts makes them very conspicuous. I observed it, also, on the headwaters 

 of the Barak and other streams that flow into the Munipur valley on the 

 north-east. The nearest allied species is G. gularis, McClelland, which is 

 also yellow on the breast ; but is dark slate grey above, with rufous on up- 

 per tail-coverts, flanks, abdomen, and vent. 

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