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



617. Siva cyanueopteea, Hodgson. 



619 a. Alcippe collaeis, Walden. 



Is very probably Minla rufogularis, Mandelli ( ' Stray Feathers,' 

 Vol. I, p. 416) and specimens from Darjeeling must be compared. The 

 species were described by the above gentlemen about the same time. Should 

 the two prove identical Mr. Mandelli's title has priority. It is pretty 

 numerous at about 3000 ft. in these hills. Mr. Mandelli's single specimen 

 came from the Bhutan Doars. I consider the species to be a Minla. 



Dimensions in the flesh :— L. 5-0, W. 23, T. 2-2, t. 09, Bf. 0*44 in. 

 *619 b. Mpnxa Mandellii, G.-Austen. 



Described as below in the ' A. and M. 1ST. H.' for January 1876. 



" Above dark olivaceous, tail brown ; forehead rufous, merging into 

 the olivaceous brown of the top of the head ; a white supercilium com- 

 mences from above the eye, and extends to the neck, merging into some 

 streaky buff and black feathers behind the ear-coverts ; a black band sur- 

 mounts the white one, but does not meet the black lores ; ear- coverts sooty. 

 Chin, throat, and upper breast buffy white ; sullied white on abdomen, flanks 

 olivaceous. Irides dark red-brown ; legs and feet pale fleshy ; bill grey- 

 brown. Feathers of the head scaly." 



L. 5-5, W. 2-2, T. 2-5, t. 0"95, Bf. 0"45 inches. 



I named this bird after Mr. L. Mandelli, who has so successfully work- 

 ed the ornithology of the Sikkim Hills, and who has described a near ally of 

 this species. Since forwarding the communication to the ' Annals', I see that 

 Mr. Hume (in ' Stray Feathers' for 1874, p. 447) has described a Proparus 

 under the title of dubius which is so like my bird, that I am inclined to think 

 the two will prove identical, in which case the specific title Mandellii will 

 not stand, but I should certainly not place it in the group Proparus, as it 

 is in every respect similar in form to Minla ignotincta and M. castaniceps. 



Wherever I have found this and Minla collaris, the whole country has 

 been covered with forest, and I should certainly not call them reed- or grass- 

 haunters. The Liotrichine group is already too much sub-divided and I 

 would not recommend the adoption of another genus for these two species 

 as proposed by Mr. A. O. Hume under the title Schceniparus. 

 *621. Peopaetjs CHBYSiETTS, Hodgson. 

 This very lovely tit was got on Shengorh, out of a numerous flock 

 that passed through the trees near the camp. 



L. 3-9, W. 2-0, T. 1-9, t. 0-8, Bf. 0-3 inches. 



623. Ixtjltjs FLAVicoLLis, Hodgson. 

 Shengorh Peak. 



624. Ixulus occipitalis, Blyth. 

 628. Yuhina nigeimentum, Hodgson. 

 Shengorh Peak. 



