80 H. H. Godwin- Austen — List of the Birds collected [No. 2, 



539 a. Cisticola melanocephaxa, And. 

 539 b. Cisticola Munipueensis, G. -Austen. 

 542. Geaminicola Bengalensis, Jerdon. 

 Very abundant on the Bishnath plain. 



Bill nearly white below, dark horny above ; irides red-brown ; legs 

 and feet pale fleshy. 



L. 60, W. 2-25, T. 3-16, t. 0-9, Bf. 05 inches. 



544. DSYMffiPUS LONGICAUDATES, Tickell. 



555. Phtlloscoptjs euscatus, Blyth. 



Only found in the woods of the Terai. 



561. Phtlloscopus aeeinis, Tickell. 



Only seen in the plains. 



572. Abeoenis xanthoschistos, Hodgson. 



578. Abeoenis castaneoceps, Hodgson. 



Harmutti. 



585. Henictjees immaculattjs, Hodgson. 



Dikrang velley. 



L. 10-0, W. 4-0, T. 5-5, t. 1*8, Bf. 0-8 inches. 

 *586. Heniceeus schistaceijs, Hodgson. 



Several specimens were obtained in the Dikrang valley. Leaving the 

 main stream and proceeding up the bed of any of the small tributaries, al- 

 most the first bird seen would be a pair of this species, flitting with their 

 peculiar jerking flight and settling a short way up stream on the gravelly 

 bed. When disturbed by a shot they fly into the dense underwood and do 

 not shew themselves again. Another pair would soon be found higher 

 up. 



Irides dark umber ; legs fleshy white. 



L. 100, W. 3-9, T. 5-5, t. 1*15, Bf. 0-7 inches. 

 *587. Heniceees Scouleei, Vigors. 



I first became acquainted with this very diminutive rejDresentative of 

 the genus on the Dikrang River, where it was very numerous, flitting about 

 the large rocks and boulders. It is not such a lover of confined overgrown 

 ravines as its much larger allies recorded above. 



Irides very dark brown ; legs and feet white ; the two outer tail-fea- 

 thers pure white, not tipped black (conf. Jerdon). 



L. 4-75, W. 2-75, T. 2-0, t. 0-85, Bf. 0-42 inches. 



588 a. Heniceees Sinensis, Gould, Birds of Asia, Pt. XVIII. 



The Dafla specimens have been compared with typical H. Leschnaulti 

 from Java and with H. Sinensis from China, obtained by Swinhoe. The 

 frontal patch, as noticed by Captain Elwes in his revision of the genus 

 (' The Ibis' 1872), is not a reliable character, and the only distinction appears 

 to be that of size, the China bird being altogether larger. My specimens 



