﻿170 Godwin Austen— FoicrtJi list of Birds from the [No. 3, 



644. Parus monticoltjs, Vigors. 

 Common enough in the Naga Hills. 

 The outer web of the outer tail-feather is white. 



660. CoRYUS cuLMiNATUs, Sjkes. 

 Shot in the Naga Hills, the only Crow seen there, and at Sopvo- 

 mah was extremely numerous in January, associating together in large 

 flocks. 



672«. Urocissa magmrostris, Blyth. 

 Shot at Sikhami, Naga Hills, at 5,000 feet, in February. 

 L. 26'', W. 7-4", T. 17", t. 2-15", Bf. 1-46''. 



Irides dark brown, bill and legs orange red. Primaries dull cobalt- 

 blue. 



691. Saraglossa spiloptera. Vigors. 

 Both ^ and 9 received from Glaro Hills from Mr. W. Robert. 



699«. MuNiA subuj!^dulata, God win- Austen. 



Described in P. Z. S. for 1874. 



" ^. Above pale umber-brown, darker on the head, pale grey on 

 rump, a few feathers edged paler ; the upper tail-coverts dull yellow ; tail- 

 feathers olivaceous umber-brown, faintly edged with same yellow tint ; quills 

 pale chesnut on outer web, umber-brown on the inner, and indistinctly 

 barred. Sides of head umber-brown becoming dark chesnut on chin and 

 throat ; breast and flanks white, feathers very narrowly barred or margined 

 rufous-brown ; abdomen and under tail-coverts dull white, the latter sparing- 

 ly streaked with brown ; feathers of the back finely pale-shafted," 



Bill dark grey ; feet plumbeous ; irides red. 



L. 4-3", W. 2 10", T. 1-70", t. 055", Bf. 0-45". 



$ is a duller brown above, with no white shafts to the feathers, a 

 distinct green tinge upon the tail feathers, otherwise as in J\I. undulata. 



Change of coloration in young males commences on the centre of the 

 throat, extending towards the base of bill into the dark chesnut, and towards 

 the breast into the undulated colouring of those parts. ^ 



Obtained in the Munipur valley, both on the Logtak Lake and head of 

 the Barak river. It is a very close to, but distinct from M. undulata, La- 

 tham, in which the undulations are broad, the general coloration is more 

 rufous, and the tail more pointed. It is also close and intermediate to 

 M. nisoria from Java and Malacca ; but in that bird the tail-coverts are grey, 

 with no trace of the fulvescent tinge common to the two continental forms. 

 Lord Walden was the first to notice it as distinct, in specimens in his col- 

 lection received from Burmah which are identical with my own from 

 Munipur, and he kindly allowed me to describe it. 



