KUNGL. SV. VET..AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND 56. N:0 2. 59 
N:0 3 p. 444453) given a revision of the Genus Alcippe which he devides into two Groups: 
the Nipalensis — Group and the Pheocephala — Group. 
This divison is chiefly based on characters of the bill. 
The bird obtained by me at Doi Par Sakeng as well as the specimen collected during 
my former Expedition 1911—1912 belong to the »long-billed» Group (called by Harrine- 
ton the Phwocephala Group). Both specimens have blackish brown stripes on the head 
and nape, and therefore ought to be referred to the race named A. p. magnirostris, WALD., 
which, according to HarRineTon, »most probably inhabits Siam, Southern Shan States, 
Karennee and south-eastern Burma to just north of Moulmein». 
The throat in my specimens is not greyish as stated in the description of A. p. 
magnirostris but pale ochraceous buff, almost of the same colour as the underparts of 
the body, hence resembling A. p. harringtonie, HartEeRtT. from North-eastern Upper 
Burma and the Northern Shan States. But the stripes on the head are not »intensely 
black» as in this race, which also is said to be smaller on an average. 
102. Alcippe sp. 
do Doi Par Sakeng !7/; 1914. L = 150 mm.; W = 63 mm.; T= 71 mm.; C= 11,3 mm.; Tarsus = 
20,2 mm. — Irides: brown. Bill: horn colour with the base dirty yellow. Legs: flesh colour. 
This specimen was unfortunately very badly shot which makes the exact identi- 
fication quite impossible. When obtained it was quite single sculking about among 
the high undergrowth. Nowhere else observed or obtained. The length of the tail is 
quite noteworthy. 
103. Stachyrhidopsis rufifrons. Hume. — Hume’s Babbler. 
o¢ Pak Koh 15/4 1914. L=105 mm.; W=49 mm.; T= 44 mm; C= 11 mm.; Tarsus = 16 mm. 
— f Doi Par Sakeng 73/, 1914. L114 mm.; W = 50,6 mm.; T = 47 mm.; C= 11 mm.; Tarsus = 17,5 
mm. — Irides: reddish brown or brown (Doi Par Sakeng specimen). — Bill: plumbeous and horn coloured. 
Legs: light brown or dirty yellow. 
Only two specimens of this small bird were collected during my journey viz. one 
male at Doi Par Sakeng near the boundary to Karennee in North-western Siam and another 
male at Pak Koh, a small place situated on about Lat. N. 18°. 
These two specimens differ somewhat inter se and the Doi Par Sakeng specimen 
seems to be nearest to S. r. bhamoensis HARRINGTON. In his »Notes on the Indian Time- 
liides and their allies» (Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. Vol. 23 N:o 4 p. 628) HarRINGTon 
has given a key to the different subspecies of Stachyrhidopsis ruficeps and S. rufifrons and 
he also disgusses the distribution and the characters of the different forms of these birds. 
In S. r. bhamoensis the bill is said to be horn-coloured while the bill of S. r. rufifrons 
is black. 
Unfortunately there is no material for comparison in the collections of the Royal 
Natural History Museum in Stockholm, and therefore I have been compelled to rely on 
the meagre desriptions in the literature. 
