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ANTHIPES.
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from April to June, constructing a nest of inoss on the ground in qrass and low jungle. ^The eggs are described as being white marked with brownish red, and measuring about '73 by '54.

584. Anthipes leucops. Miarpes White-yoryeied Fit/catcher.

Anthipes momliger (Hodf/s.), Blyth fy Walden, Birds Burm. p. 103 ; Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xlv, pt. ii, p. 195. Digenea leucops, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 240.

Coloration. Resembles A. moniliger, but has the forehead and eyebrow white, and the sides of the head ashy grey.

Iris bright dark brown ; bill slate-brown ; legs white tinged fleshy ( Wardlaw Ramsay}.

Of the same size as A. moniliyer.

Distribution. The Kluisi hills ; Gougloug, Manipur hills ; Karen- nee at 5000 feet.

585. Anthipes submoniliger. Humes White-yoryeted Fit/catcher.

Anthipes submoniliger, Hume, S. F. v, p. 105 (1877) j Humefy Dau. S. F. vi, pp. 232, 510 ; Hume, Cat. no. 317 bis.

Digenea submoniliger (Hume), Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iv, p. 461 ; Oates, B. B. i, p. 301 j Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 246.

Coloration. Upper plumage fulvous-brown ; forehead, lores, a broad but short supercilium, and a circle of feathers round the eye rich golden-fulvous ; sides of the head fulvous-brown ; chin and throat white, with a few black feathers on the side of the chin ; breast and flanks olive-brown; abdomen, vent, and under tail- coverts white ; wings and wing-coverts brown, edged with rufous; tail ferruginous.

Bill black, yellowish on lower mandible ; iris deep brown ; legs fleshy white (Davison*).

Length about 5 ; tail 2; wing2'4; tarsus -85 ; bill from gape '6.

Distribution. Tenasserim, where this species has been found on Muleyit mountain and at the foot of Nwalabo mountain.

586. Anthipes poliogenys. Brooks's Flycatcher.

Cyornis poliogenys, Brooks, S. F. viii, p. 4C9 (1879) ; Hume, S. F. ix, pp. OC>, :: <.).->; xi, p. 108.

Siphia eaclmrensis, Madardsz, Zeitschr. yes. Orn. 1884, p. 52, pi. i, tig. 2.

Coloration. Forehead, crown, and nape greyish brown; back, rump, scapulars, and the margins of the quills olive-brown ; upper tail-coverts and tail ferruginous ; lores and a ring round the eye light grey ; sides of the head brownish grey ; chin and throat pale buff ; breast and sides of the body orange-buff ; middle of the abdomen whitish ; under tail-coverts pale buff or buffy white.