1876.] Sill Ranges of the N. E. Frontier. 195 



303. Cyoetstis tricolor, Blyth. 

 This bird, hitherto only obtained in Sikkim, I have from the Khasi 

 Hills. Among Col. Tickell's drawings there is one of this species under the 

 title JEumyias melanops {vide Lord Walden in op. supra, cit., p. 353), 

 shewing that it extends southwards into Akyab. 



317. AjStthipes moniligeb, Hodgson. 

 Gonglong, Munipur Hills. 



332r?. Pnoepyga Eobertt, Wald. and Aust. 



The following is the original description of this species published in 

 < The Ibis' for 1875, p. 252, 



" Above olive-brown, each feather pale-centred and fringed or tipped 

 with dark brown. Lores albescent. Between the eyes and the rictus black. 

 A well-defined streak extending from above the eye down each side of the 

 head, fulvous. Ear-coverts cinereous at base, brown towards the tips. 

 Chin and throat pure white, each throat -feather being terminated by a 

 small black triangular drop ; as the tips of the feathers overlap, these 

 drops from continuous black lines, the two principal ones descending from 

 the angles of the under mandible. Cheeks ferruginous, each feather with 

 a black terminal drop. Pectoral and abdominal feathers pale brown, with 

 broad pure white or fidvous-white centres. Under tail-coverts bright 

 ferruginous yellow. Plumage on the rump loose, soft, and dense, com- 

 pletely concealing the short tail, and being of an almost uniform ferrugi- 

 nous brown colour. "Wings when closed, dark chocolate-brown, most 

 intense on the secondaries. Most of the wing-coverts distinctly tipped 

 with almost pure white, so also the inner tertiary quills. Eectrices chocolate- 

 brown." 



" Bill from nostril 037 inch, wing 2*15, tarsus 0'75, tail T15." 



This bird was found at Asahi and also at Chakha in the Munipur hills. 

 In my first list it is recorded under the name of Pnoepyga caiulata, Blyth. 

 It closely resembles Twdmus urevieaudatus, especially in the upper plumage, 

 but may be at once distinguished by its smaller size and diminutive tail. 



3325. Pa t oepyga chocolatesta, Wald. and G-Aust. 

 Described in ' The Ibis,' Vol. V, 1875, p. 252, as follows :— 

 " Above olive brown, each feather fringed with a somewhat fainter 

 tint, thus imparting a subdued scaly aspect to the back. Wings and tail 

 chocolate-brown. Upper and under tail-coverts ferruginous brown, bright- 

 est on the under coverts. Lower surface generally ferruginous brown, many 

 of the abdominal feathers being largely centred with white or fulvous white. 

 Pectoral feathers with minute terminal white drops, or some with narrow 



