1876.] Hill Ranges of the N. E. Frontier. 201 



Additional notes on the Birds of previous Lists. 



Micronisus badius, Gmelin. 

 There are in the collection two specimens, one an adult and one in 

 immature plumage, from the Eastern Naga Hills. Jerdon remarks that 

 there is a dusky reddish nape, only conspicuous when the head is bent for- 

 wards : in my specimen this is far more pronounced and forms a dull rusty 

 band quite half an inch wide. In t"he young bird this rusty band is also 

 to be seen coming in on the sides of the neck but not quite meeting in 

 the middle, agreeing with a description of an adult by Mr. A. O. Hume in 

 his ' Scrap Book,' p. 121. 



205. HlEROCOCCYX VARIUS. 



Of ' Fourth List' should be H. sparverioides, Vigors. 



SlPHIA STTPERCILIARIS, ? . 



I refer a specimen from the Naga, Hills to the female of the above, 

 and give a description of it, as none is to be found in Jerdon, among whose 

 collection of drawings is a figure of the same sex with dimensions. 



Above — head and back dullish olivaceous green ; wing umber-brown with 

 rather strong rufous edgings ; tail the same colour, with only the faintest 

 rufous tinge. Chin dull pale ferruginous ; breast darker, with a sordid green 

 tinge on the flanks ; under tail-coverts white, as also the extreme base of both 

 webs of the outer tail-feathers, which in this respect assimilate with those of 

 the male, where we find a greater extent of white. 



L. W. T. 



Naga Bird : about 4 inches, 2*2, 1*65, 



Dr. Jerdon's 

 measurements. 



u] ^ » 2 * 3 ' 



t. 



Bf. 



067, 



0-37. 



1 1 



i 



4' 



Mttsctcapula ^stigma, Hodgson. $ 



I am indebted to Mr. A. W. Chennell of the Topographical Survey 

 for this specimen. I had previously obtained several males at Shillong 

 Peak and in the forest near Mairang, but had never secured a female. 

 Dr. Jerdon had apparently seen the male only, for no description of the 

 female is given by him. 



Above ashy, with an olivaceous tinge, rather rusty near base of bill ,- 

 wings and tail plain umber-brown. Beneath sordid white. 



W. 2-22 inches, T. 16, t. 0'61, Bf. 0-35. 



