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84 Length about 11 ; tail up to 6-2 ; whig 4-5; tarsus 1*15 ; bill from gape 1'05.

Distribution. The Himalayas from Murree to Nepal at all eleva- tions up to 12,000 feet.

Habits, fyc. Breeds from April to June, constructing a cup-shaped nest, chiefly of moss, on a ledge of rock or at the root of a tree, or on a bank near water, and laying four or five eggs, which are greenish white marked with yellowish or reddish brown, and measure about *96 by *72.

631. Henicurus guttatus. The Eastern Spotted Fork-tail.

Enicurus maculatus, Viq., Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 212 (part.).

Enicurus guttatus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 664 ; Hume, N. $ E. p. 375 ; Gates, S. F. iii, p. 342.

Henicurus guttatus, Gould, Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 29 ; Ehves, Ibis, 1872, p. 261 j Hume, S. F. vii, p. 399; id. Cat. no. 584 bis ; Scully, S. F. viii, p. 311 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 316 ; Oates, B. B. i, p. 26; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 227; Oates in Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 58.

Oong-sam ching-pho, Lepch. ; Chubia leka, Bhut.

Coloration. Resembles H. maculatus. Differs in having the white marks on the back fewer in number, small, and perfectly round in shape, and in having the breast deep black without any white fringes ; smaller in size.

Length about 10 j tail 5'3 ; wing 4 ; tarsus 1'2 ; bill from gape 1.

Distribution. Nepal ; Sikhim ; North Khasi hills ; Manipur ; Arrakan. I have seen a typical specimen of this species from Mussoorie, but it is seldom that this bird occurs so far west.

Habits, &c. Breeds in Sikhim from 2000 feet upwards in May and June. The nest and eggs do not appear to differ from those of H. maculatus. The eggs measure about '93 by *68.

632. Henicurus schistaceus, The Slaty-backed Forktail.

Enicurus schistaceus, Hodys. As. lies, xix, p. 189 (1836) ; Blyth, Cat. p. 159 ; Ilorsf. $ M. Cat. i, p. 346 ; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 214 ; Hume, N. $ E. p. 376.

Henicurus schistaceus, Hodys., Elwes, Ibis, 1872, p. 253 ; Godw.- Aust. J. A. S. B. xlv, pt. ii, p. 80 ; Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi, p. 361 ; Hume, Cat. no. 586 ; Scully, S. F. viii, p. 311 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 315 ; Oates, B. B. i, p. 27 ; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 229 ; Oates in Hume's N. # E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 60.

Coloration. A frontal band and the feathers immediately over and behind the eye white ; lores, cheeks, ear-coverts, chin, upper part of the throat, and the sides of the lower part black ; crown, nape, sides of neck and back slaty blue ; lesser wing-coverts black, margined with slaty black ; median coverts black ; greater coverts black, tipped with white ; scapulars slaty blue, tipped with white ; quills black, broadly white at base ; the secondaries and tertiaries