372 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE A XL PRODUCTIOXS. 



This may 1)0 a race of P. ruhicoln, L., but Ilumc shows " the two are really 

 invariably distinguishable at a ghmcc ; the upper tail coverts and lower part of the 

 rump in Indica iiYv never striated. I have tested this fact in about two hundred 

 specimens " (S.F. vi. p. 334). 



P. LEUcriu, Blyth. Pegu. Toung-ngoo. Pahpoon. 



P. FERREA, Hodg. Arakan. Pegu. Teuasseiim. Karen-ni. 



EUTICILLIN.E. 



RmcrLL.v Afroeea, Pall. Assam. Pegu. Siberia. 



A winter visitant. 



R FULiGixosA, Vig. Arakan. Pegu. 



The plumbeous redstart freqiicnts mountain torrents, and may often be seen 

 on a wet slippeiy rock, just above a boiling rapid. It climbs up tlie wet rocks with 

 great facility, and every now and then spreads its tail out, but without vibrating 

 it, like some Redstarts. It is a pugnacious bird, and delights to engage aud drive 

 off the little Enicurtcs Scouleri, which frequents similar spots (Jerdon). 



CnjjMORuoRxis LEUcocEPHALA, Vig. Sikkim. Arakan. 



A ■winter visitant. 



Larvivora cyaxe, Pallas. Martaban. Tenasserim. 



Oreicola Jehdoni, Gould. Rassciu. 



P/iodophila melanoleuca, Mull, apud Jerdon. 



Calliope Kajischatkensis, Gmel. Arakan. Pegu. T\aren-ui. 



CvANECULA suECiCA, L. Arakan. Pegu. Tenasserini. Andamans. 



C. cccrulecula, Pall. 



CALAMOHEEPlNiE. 

 AcEOCEPHALrs ORENTALis, Tem. and Schl. Southern Tenasscrira. 

 A rare visitant. 



A. STEJJTOREA, Hemp, and Ehrcn. Arakan. 



A. AGEicoLus, Jerdon. Tenasserim. (Kcdai galay.) 



A rare straggler from Rengal, which it quits to breed in the north. 



A. BisTRiGicEPS, Swinhoe. Tavoy (in a Nipa swamp). 



A. DUMETOEUM, Blyth. Arakau. 



Aeundinax j.dox. Pall. Arakan. Tenasserim. Andamans. 



LocDSiELLA lanceolata. Southcm Tenasserim. 



A winter visitant. 



L. SDBSiGNATA, Hume. Andamans (Aberdeen). 



TJhosphena squamiceps, Swinhoe. Southern Tenasserim. 



A winter visitant. 



Horeites p.allidipes, Blanford. Sikkim. Pahpoon. Northern Tenasserim. 



H. seeicea, Walden. Karcn-ui Hills. 



DRYMOICINiE. 

 The tailor birds, Ortliotomus, are so called from stitching togetlicr two or more 

 leaves with thread or fibre, within which shelter it makes a nest of wool or other 

 soft materials, laying 3 or 4 white eggs, si)otted with reddish-brown. It will also 

 select the curling over end of a broad zinziberaceous leaf, weaving the ends together, 

 and in this dependent state, the nest is entered from below the leaf, which conqdetely 

 shelters it from sight. 



Ortuotomus sutorius, G. R. Forstcr. Pegu. Karen-ni. Tenasserim. India. 



0. longicatcdatus, Gmel. 



0. phyllorrhamphceus, Swinhoe. 

 0. edila, Tem. Tavoy. Siam. Java. 



A barely distinguishable race from the last {Jide Walden). 



