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PoMATORHINUS MEARSI, II. Subsp. 



Most nearly allied to P. schisticeps, Hodgs., but the 

 general colour above much paler. Crown ashy brown, 

 not sharply defined from the olive-brown upper parts, but 

 separated in some specimens by a more or less well-defined 

 rufous collar; the rufous stripe down the side of the neck, 

 commencing behind the ear-coverts, is pale chestnut-red 

 instead of deep chestnut-maroon. 



Adult male. Total length 10 inches, culmen 1'3, wing 4 - 2, 

 tail 4*6, tarsus 1*5. 



Adult female. Total length 9*5 inches, culmen l - 3, wing 

 4-0, tail 4-3, tarsus 14. 



$ and 9 types are from Taungdwin Chaung, Upper 

 Chindwin, 22nd April, 1904. 



Other specimens had been procured at Wabobin, Upper 

 Chindwin, 2nd May, 1904, and at Indin, Myitha Valley, 

 12th January, 1904. 



Mr. Grant added the following note : — 



" A specimen from Tipperah in the Hume Collection 

 should also be referred to this subspecies; but other 

 examples from the same State can only be referred to the 

 darker Himalayan form P. schisticeps. Of the small form 

 found in the North-west Himalayas, and described by 

 Dr. Sharpe as P. pinwilli, there are several specimens in the 

 Hume Collection obtained in the neighbourhood of Simla. 

 The rufous collar which Dr. Sharpe mentions as a distinctive 

 subspecific character does not appear to be constant, and is 

 probably merely individual, as is the case in P. mearsi. 



" Capt. A. Mears also procured a specimen of Garrulus 

 oatesi and a fine series of Silver-Pheasants in the same 

 district." 



Major R. Sparrow exhibited the eggs of five species of 

 South-African birds which he had obtained in Natal when 

 serving there after the late war. They were eggs of Irrisor 

 viridis, Cossypha bicolor, Trachyphonus cafer, Thamnolcea 

 cinnamomeivenlris , and Parra capensis. 



There was no specimen of the egg of Irrisor in the 

 Natural History Museum. 



