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Thrushes, "Wagtails, "Wrens, Tits, "lA^eavcr-binls, Avadavats, Fiuches, Larks, Wax- 

 wings, Chatterers, Pastors, Starlings, Orioles and Crows. 



Sub-order TAWUIROSTEES. 

 Hill long, slender, mostly curt'ed. Legs strong. 



Family NectariniidsB. 



The Honey-suckers, like the Humming-birds of America, chiefly feed on the 

 nectar of flowers, but add thereto the minute insects found about flowers, and some 

 subsist mainly on spiders. The males only are adorned with brilliant plumage, which 

 is seasonal in some, in others pennanent (Jerdon). The nest is an elaborately con- 

 structed purse, suspended fi'om a sleuder twig, and opening at the side, and the eggs 

 2 or 3 in number. 



AiuciixoTHEKA MAGNA, Hodg. Sikkim. Arakan. Pegu. Martaban. 



This species frequents hilly tracts, but is rare in Tenasserim proper. 



A. AUEATA, Blyth. Toung-ngoo. Karen-ni, at 2500 feet. 



A. LoxGiBosTEA, Lath. Arakan. Pegu. Tenasserim. 



A . pitsilla, Blyth. 



Frequents gardens, and is commonly seen clinging, back downwards, to the 

 purple bract leaves of the young plantain bunches, its head turned up inside the 

 bract, busily sucking the nectar from the inflorescence concealed beneath the purple 

 sheath (Hume). 



A. MODESTA, Eyton. Tenasserim south of ilergui. 



The grey-breasted spider-hunter. 



A. CHRTsoGEXvs, Tem. 



The lesser yellow-eared spider-hunter. 



AxTHEEPTES HTP0GR.\sniiCA, Miill. Southcm Tenasserim. 



A. SIMPLEX, S. Mull. Southern Tenasserim. 



A. M.alaccensis, Seop. Tenasserim. 



Xeciakophila HAssELTir, Tem. Arakan. Pegu. Tenasserim. Java. 

 Leptocoma Braziliana, Gmel. 



Both the above species are rare in the Xorth, but common towards Mergui. 



^THOPYGA ca£a, Hume. Martaban. Tenasserim. 



For a key of all the species of this genus, see S.F. \. p. 71. 



jE. MfLEs, Hodg. Pegu. Martaban. 



M. Dabeti, Terr. Mooleyit and Karen-ni, at 4000 feet. 



M. NicoBAEiCA, Hume. Nicobars. 



M. sANGuixiPECTUs, Wald. Mooleyit and Karen-ui, at 3000 feet. 



^. GouLDiJi, Yig. Assam. Arakan. 



Mr. Blyth also considers it probable that ^. Xipalcmis, JE. saturata and^. igni- 

 cauda, will all be found to range fi-om the Khasi Hills into Arakan. 



Chaecostetha ixsigxis, Gould. Southern Tenasserim. 



Chalcopaeia Sixgaxessis, Gmel. Assam. Arakan. Pegu. Tenasserim. 



Aeachxotheea asiatica, L. Arakan. Pegu. Martaban. 



A. PECTOEALis, Horsf. Nicobars. 



A. FLAMMAxiLAEis, Bljth. Southem Tenasserim. 



A. AxDAMAxicA, Hume. Andamans. 



DicsuM CRCEXTATTM, L. Arakan. Pegu. Tenasserim. 



D. TMGOxosTiGMA, Scop. Arakuu. Pegu. Tenasserim. 



D. CHEYsonRHcEUM, Tem. Khasi Hills. Arakan. Tenasserim. 



D. OLivACEUM, Walden. Toung-ngoo. Karen-ni. Andamans. 



I), virescens, Hume. 



D. EErTHEouHrxcHA, Latham. Arakan. Tenasserim. 



