202 H. H. Godwin-Austen— Fifth List of Birds from the [No. 4, 



VOLVOCIVOEA MELASCHISTOS, Hodgson. 



As the description of immature forms is of great interest, and as none 

 is given in the ' Birds of India,' I append one of a young male of this 

 species obtained at Shillong. 



Above — pale ochraceous mottled with black on the head, barred with the 

 same on lower part of back, each feather having a subterminal black band, 

 grey at base ; primaries and secondaries, especially the latter, are all tipped 

 cream colour, as well as the primary and lesser coverts, forming two distinct 

 bands ; tail-feathers all tipped white, the outermost broadly so. Beneath — 

 greyish white tinged with pale rusty and barred pale grey. 



This young bird was shot about the middle of June. 



Paeadoxoenis AtrsTEisri, Gould. 

 Extends into the mountain region of Western China. Examples were 

 obtained by Pere Armand David, and are in the collection at the Jardin 

 des Plantes. 



Lataedia ettbkhnostts, G-Austen. 

 In the dimensions given of this bird, in ' Fourth List' (J. A. S. B. 

 Pt. II. 1874 p. 164), the tarsus should be 1-16 not 1-6 inches. 



532. Peinia flaviventeis. 

 Lord Walden, in his Supplemental Notes to Blyth's Catalogue of the 

 Birds of Burrnah (J. A. S. B., 1875, p. 118), alludes to the presence of a 

 well-marked white supercilium in examples of this species from Munipur ; it 

 is not, however, a constant character even there. Among the specimens last 

 obtained near Tezpur, Assam valley, some have the whole side of the head dark 

 grey even to the lores, and noticing the variation I made a drawing of it at 

 the time from a fresh bird. We thus have an interesting gradation from 

 this state of plumage into one with pale lores and yet another where 

 this is developed into a well marked superciliuni. 



Ixulits steiatus, Blyth. 

 Of " First List," p. 109, is Ixulus castaniceps, Moore. 



IXULTTS CASTANICEPS. 



Of ' Fourth List,' p. 169, is a new species. Dr. Jerdon, who had never 

 seen true Ixuhis castaniceps described by Moore, when looking over my first 

 collection at Cherra Poonjee, gave it the above title. I have since described 

 it under the name of llinla Mandellii in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Jan. 1S76, 

 and the description has been repeated in full in the ' List of Birds from the 

 Dafla Hills'. It may after all be Mr. Hume's Fropams dubim. 



