620 AVES. 



Chaitwris mheculoides, Hodgs., in Gray's Zool. Misc., p. 84, 1844. 



mUava mheculoides, Gray, Gen. B., vol. i, p. 264, 1846 ; id., Cat. Mamm., &c., Nepal, Hodgs., p. 90, 



1846; id., Handl. B., vol. i, p. 325, 1869. 

 Mrytkroderna rubecula, Bonap. Consp., t. i, p. 318, 1850. 



a. i Kabyuet, 10th January 1875. 



b. S Upper Burma, 16tli March 1868. 



c. $ Bhamo, 6th February 1868. 



d. i Tapeng river, 21st March 1868. 



e_-.f, rj. ? Ponsee, 2nd May 1868, i5th March 1868, 28rd April 1868, and 

 15th March 1868. 



This bird is generally distributed over Upper Burma and the Kakhyen hills. 



88. Cyornis tickelli, Blyth. 



Mmcicapa hyacintha, Tickell, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. ii, p. 574, 1833. 



Miiscicapa hanyumas, Jerdon, Madr. Jom-n., vol. xi, p. 15, 1840. 



Cyornis hanyumas, (nee. Horsf.), Blyth, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xii, p. 941, 1842; id.. Cat. B. 

 Mus., As. Soc, Bengal, p. 173, 1849; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. i, p. 466, 1862. 



Cyornis tichellim, Blyth, Joui-n. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xii, p. 941, 1843 ; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. i, 

 p. 467, 1862; Gray, Cat. Hodgs. Drawings, 1863, p. 48; Blanford, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, 

 vol. xxxviii, 1869, p. 174 ; Blyth, Ibis, 1870, p. 166 ; Lloyd, op. cit., 1872, p. 197 ; Hume, Stray 

 Feathers, 1873, p. 436; Ball, o;;. cit., 1874, p. 405; Butler & Hume, op. cit., 1875, p. 468; 

 Butler, op. dt., 1876, p. 37; Blyth & Walden, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xliv, 1875, ex 

 No. ; Fairbank, Stray Feathers, 1876, p. 257 ; id., op. cit., 1877, p. 402. 



Cyornis elegans, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus., As. Soc, Bengal, p. 173 (nee Temm.) 



Cyornis jerdoni, Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 371; Holdsw., Proc Zool. Soc, 1872, p. 442. 



Niltava jerdoni. Gray, Handl. i, p. 325. 



Niltava tichellia. Gray, Gen. B., i, p. 264; id., Handl. B., i, p. 325. 



a. ? Upper Burma, 16th January 1868. 

 I. c. Z Ponsee, 15th March and 23rd April 1868. 



Some of the males are slightly darker above than Calcutta and Singbhoom 

 specimens, and the ferruginous of the chin, throat and breast is more intense, while 

 others are almost quite as pale. The ear-coverts are the same colour as the back, dark 

 indigo-blue. In one specimen which was ascertained to be a female of this species, 

 there is a pale pinkish pale metallic lustre on the forehead and over the eye. 



In thick low jungle outside Bham6 and at an elevation of 3,300 feet on the 

 Kakhyen hills, 



Genus Sip hi a, Hodgson. 

 89. SiPHiA STROPHiATA, Hodgson. 



Siphia siropUala, Hodgs., Ind. Rev., vol. i, p. 651, 1857 ; Gray, Cat. Mamm., &c.. Coll. Hodgs., p. 92, 

 1846 ; Blyth, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xvi, p. 125, 1847 ; id., Cat. B. Mus., As. Soc, Ben- 

 gal, p. 171, 1849; Horsfield & Moore, Cat. B. Mus., vol. i, p. 293, 1854; Jerdon, B. Ind., 

 vol. i, 1863, p. 316; Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xsxvii, 1868, p, 32; Pelz., Ibis' 



