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N:o 3p. 444 — 453) given a revision of the Genus Alcippe which he de vides intotwoGroups: 

 the Nipalensis — Group and the Phcpocephala - - Group. 



Tiiis 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 (callcd by Harrjnc;- 

 ton the Phosocephala Group). Both specimens ha ve blackish brown stripes on the head 

 and nape, and therefore ought to be referred to the race named A. p. magnit •ostris, Wald., 

 wliich, according to Harrington, »most probably inhabits Siarn, Southern Shan States, 

 Karennee and south-eastern Burma to just north of Moulmein». 



The throat in my specimens is not greyisli as stated in the description of A. p. 

 magnirostris but påle ochraceous buff, almost of the same colour as the underparts of 

 the body, hence resembling A. p. harringtonice, Hartert. 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 a ve råge. 



102. Alcippe sp. 



J 1 Doi Par Sakeng 17 /? 1914. L = 150 ram.; 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. 



<$ Pak Koh 13 / 4 1914. L = 105 mm.; W = 49 mm.; T = 44 mm.; C = 11 mm.; Tarsus = 16 mm. 

 — <$ Doi Par Sakeng 2s /i 1914. L = 114 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 Siarn 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. bham.oensis 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 ha ve been compelled to rely on 

 the meagre desriptions in the literature. 



