On Mr. Chennell's label I find the following notes:

L. 21 inches, W. irides golden yellow. claw 1.1, hind toe 1.0,

16.5, T. 60, t. 30, Bf. 18. Bill greenish horny, Legs and feet dusky grey. The mid toe is 1.75, its claw 1.25.

These dimensions and the coloration of the feet and legs are much nearer to those of Mr. Swinhoe's bird than to those given by either Sharpe or Jerdon for flavipes. In neither of the latter is any mention made of the down covered tarsus, a character so striking that it could hardly have escaped their notice, and one which, besides the vermiculated breast and lower parts, distinguishes the species from Ceylonensis.

Swinhoe concludes with the remark that the fine down of the tarsus appears to wear off, but the specimen now recorded is an adult, and though this down may disappear to a certain extent, I do not think the tarsus and the joint above would ever become bare as in Ceylonensis and flavipes.

*94. CHELIDON NIPALENSIS, Hodgson.

106. BATRACHOSTOMUS JAVENSIS, Horsfield, ? ?

This specimen belongs to the Indian Museum, Calcutta, where I found it among some skins that had been sent down by the late lamented Captain John Butler from the Nágá Hills, and I was by the kind permission of the Trustees allowed to bring it to England. It is a most interesting specimen in the rufous phase of plumage, but unfortunately the sex is not marked. It agrees with a specimen of B. Javensis in the collection of Lord Tweeddale, and the description of the species as given in P. Z. S. 1877, p. 435, and the dimensions do not differ materially. I give a description of the Nágá Hill bird, interesting as being found so far to the northward.

Entire plumage rich chestnut brown, a few white feathers at the base of the upper mandible tipped rufous and barred with black. White on chin and throat, some of the feathers on the latter crossed by a V-shaped dark line, but they only extend to the upper breast, this being covered by feathers having large, rounded white centres, bounded on the terminal margin by a narrow dark line and fringed with chestnut; towards the abdomen and flanks the white marks become narrow and lengthened. The wing is unspotted, but conspicuous white feathers margined with black are mingled with the scapulars, and there is a well-marked nuchal collar, each feather crossed by a narrow black line edged terminally by another. There is a slight mottling of dull black on the primaries and secondaries and lower back. The tail is similarly mottled and crossed by 7 pale clear rufous bands, the outer penultimate tail feather has 5 distinct white bars on the outer web, the very short outermost feather has a terminal whitish spot.

W. 5.25 inches, T. 5.5, t. 0.6, BL. 06. Breadth at gape, 105, mid-toe and claw 0.75. The long frontal plumes are black, rufous at the base.

This bird is, I think, nearest to B. Javensis, B. affinis apparently not having any white in front of the eye.

On my submitting this paper and the specimen to Lord Tweeddale he thus wrote to me, “This Nágá Hill example of the genus, Batrachostomus "without doubt belongs to the B. Javensis (Horsf. ex Java). I have critically compared the two and cannot detect any difference. It may turn "out to be Mr. Hume's B. castaneus, in which case B. Hodgsoni will become a synonym of B. Javensis. It is a large form of B. affinis, but the "white on the throat seems to extend higher up, as it does in the Javan species and in B. cornutus of Sumatra and Borneo." Lord Tweeddale does not concur with me regarding the white mark in front of the eye, and says, "it is just as strongly marked in my examples of B. affinis."

130. HALCYON PILEATA, Bodd.

H. atricapillus, Gmel.-Jerdon, Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 226.

♂ L. about 10·3, W. 4·9, T. 4·0, t. 0·58, Bf. 2·3, Bill from nostril 2∙15. The dimensions of the length and wing are much smaller than those given by Dr. Jerdon.

133. CEYX TRIDACTYLA, Pallas.

Dr. Jerdon informed me that he saw this species in a small stream close under the village of Cherra Púnji, but as I never got it myself, I did not record it. Mr. A. W. Chennell has two specimens he shot on the Umthunna River, N. Khási Hills.

*135α. ALCEDO GRANDIS, Blyth.

Also got on the Buri Dihing.

*137. CERYLE GUTTATA, Vigors.

Tenga Páni and Buri Dibing.

147. PALEORNIS EUPATRIUS, Lin.

L. 21, W. 81, T. 13.5, t. 0·8, Bf. 1·5, Bg. 1.2.

Bill deep red. Legs and feet orange yellow.

N. Khasi Hills, December, (Chennell).

*152ɑ. PALEORNIS MELANORHYNCHUS, Wagler.

*171. GECINUS STRIOLATUS, Blyth.

210. SURNICULUS DICRUROIDES, Hodgson.

Mr. Chennell has two specimens from the N. Khasi Hills of this

curiously plumaged bird, so like the king-crow.

Length 10·0, W. 5·5, T. 5·75, t. 0·7, Bf. 0·8.

A single male specimen was collected for me by Mr. A. Chennell in the Nágá Hills; this is of a richer chestnut below than a specimen from Darjiling. A female was obtained by Mr. Ogle at Sadiya. I give a description of the latter, that in Jerdon being taken from the male.

f. Above, olivaceous brown, wings and tail dark umber-brown, beneath, all pale rufous buff. Under tail coverts white.

W. 1.75, t. 0·65. The wing is rather shorter than in the male which has it 1.90.

320. SIPHIA LEUCOMELANURA, Hodgson.

I now possess two males and three females from Sadiya, two males from the Munipur Hills, and one male from Sibságar, Assam. Dr. Jerdon only describes the male, the female apparently was unknown to him. I therefore give one of a specimen sent me from Darjiling by Mr. L. Mandelli.

9. Above, brown with an olive cast, darkest on the head, ochraceous on the rump. Wing and tail ruddy brown, ferruginous at the base of the tail feathers and on the wing coverts. Beneath, dingy sordid white, purer on the centre of the abdomen, ochraceous on the flanks. Hind claw well curved. W. 2.3, T. 2:05, t. 0.72, Bf. 0.36.

3. Sadiya, W. 24, T. 2:15, t. 0.85, Bf. 0.30 to 0:35.
Legs, sepia-brown; irides deep brown.

377. CHLEUASICUS RUFICEPS, Blyth, var. atrosuperciliaris, GodwinAusten. P. A. S. B., June 1877, p. 147.

and

3. Rusty chestnut on the head, same colour, but paler, on the nape ear coverts: back and wings pale olive-brown, quills tinged rufous, tail brown. A narrow black streak over the eye, beneath dull white with an earthy tinge.

Legs dark plumbeous.

L. about 6, W. 2·85, T. 3·3, t. 0·90, Bf. 0·43.

Maubum Tila, near Sadiya.

Larger than typical C. ruficeps and not so white below.

390c. TURDINUS NAGAENSIS, Godwin-Austen, [A. M. N. H., Dec. 1877.] Above, rich umber-brown throughout with no streaking on the feathers of the head. Beneath, the same tint, much paler, with slight rusty adjacent to the dull whitish centre of the breast, chin

shading into and also whitish.

"Irides dark brown, legs and feet light sienna-grey.

Length about 570, wing 2.2, tail 2-2, t. 0·90, Bf. 0.50, hind toe, 0.35, claw 0·3. This species is very distinct from T. Garoensis in its deeper umber coloration and smaller size. Particularly is this the case in the legs, feet and hind claw.

"It was obtained by Mr. A. W. Chennell, of the Survey, in the Eastern Nágá Hills.”

390d. TURDINUS STRIATUS, Walden.

I have compared a specimen from Sadiya of the bird hitherto considered as T. brevicaudatus with the type in the Calcutta Museum, obtained by Col. Tickell in Tenasserim, and find that they are, after all, distinct. The Tenasserim form is very strong rufous on the breast, belly and under tail-coverts, the spots on the secondaries are small and triangular, whereas in that from Sadiya they are large and tip the feather. The throat is also grayer in this last. In the "Ibis" for 1876, p. 354, Lord Tweeddale remarks on the highly colored drawing by Tickell of T. brevicaudatus, and Mr. Gould has very probably figured an Assam bird, which should stand properly under the title of T. striatus, Walden, described in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (4), vii., p. 241, and which Jerdon had very probably compared with true brevicaudatus from the Burmah side and considered distinct. This bird is the one I refer to under the title of T. Williamsoni in J. A. S. B., Pt. II., 1877, p. 44. I have four specimens from Sadiya (Gáro Hills and Munipur), in all of which the spots on the secondaries are rufous, while in a specimen from the Mulé-it range, Tenasserim, obtained by Mr. Limborg, they are white, thus agreeing with Col. Tickell's drawing of true brevicaudatus from the same locality. This specimen is again not so rufous as the type in the Indian Museum, but this is a very variable character in this group, (as may be seen in Pnoe. squamata, of which specimens white beneath are often met with,) and probably depends on age. After all striatus is only a variety of brevicaudatus.

3996. PELLORNEUM MANDELLII, W. Blanford, [J. A. S. B., vol. XLI, Pt. II, p. 165, pl. VII., (1872).]

Var. pectoralis.

I described this variety of the Darjiling form in the J. A. S. B. vol. XLVI, Pt. II, 1877, pp. 41-42, as it differs a good deal in its markings