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In Saiigor in the central provinces they are common for 
some months in the cold weather. 
Throughout the summer, this species abounds everywhere 
in the Himalayas, at any rate from the western borders of 
Nepal to Murree, at elevations of from 4000 to even 9000 
feet, south of the first high snowy ranges. North of these 
I do not remember to have seen it, but Dr. Stoliczka talks 
of it as occurring in Western Thibet up to 12,000 feet. 
As for the nearly allied T. meena, Sykes, which may 
be always distinguished by its darker or lighter slaty-grey 
or bluish under tail-coverts, it never I believe visits the 
Himalayas, at any rate west of Nepal. 
Throughout Central and part of Southern India, in E-ae- 
pore, Cuttack, Midnapore, Dacca, Assam, Cachar, Tipperah, 
Chittagong, and Martaban, it is abundant, and in some at 
least of these localities a permanent resident, but it does 
not, I believe, visit the Himalayas anywhere west of Nepal. 
I am aware that Dr. Stoliczka says that this species is 
found in summer on the lower ranges as far as Kotegurh. 
Year after year I have shot over these lower ranges, and had 
Shikarees shooting there, while for three years I have had 
a regular establishment of collectors in the Sutlej Valley, 
with Kotegurh as their head-quarters, and while I have 
myself obtained and have had sent to me T. vitticoUis, — birds, 
eggs, and nests by the score, I have never even seen a single 
individual of T. meena procured in the localities indicated 
by Dr. Stoliczka. If it really occurs there, it can only 
be as an excessively rare straggler, such as Ectopistes 
migratorius is in England. Hutton^s bird is beyond doubt 
T. vitticoUis. I owe to him both eggs and a specimen of 
the bird. 
T. meena itself includes two races, the one the western 
form, from Mahableshwur, with the lower tail-coverts light 
grey ; the other, the eastern form, from the east coast of the 
Bay of Bengal, with these parts deep slaty or dusky bluish. 
Specimens from the Puchmurries are intermediate, but 
nearest the Mahableshwur form, while those from Raepore 
and Comillah are nearest, the latter especially, to the Marta- 
ban type. 
