4. HYP8IPETES. 39 



coloration into brown, a process which seems to take place in 

 preserved specimens. 



The sexes appear to be alike in plumage, but the female is appa- 

 reutlj' somewhat smaller. 



Total 



length. Culnien. Wing. Tail. Tarsus, 

 in. in. in. in. in. 



rt. J.Karen hills (Wardlaiv 



Eamsay) 9-6 1-1 4-95 4-4 07 



h. $ . Karen hills ( Wardlaiv 



Eamsay) 8-8 1-05 4-55 3-9 0-7 



Mr. Hume considered at one time that birds from Southern Tenas- 

 serim (B. sahnif/e>\ Hume) Avere distinct from those of the northern 

 part of the province ; but recently he has retracted this decision. 

 He writes : — " No doubt the southern birds I thus designated are 

 always somewhat, in some cases, much darker than the northern 

 Pahpoon birds, which agree preciseJii with Blyth'.s type ; but after 

 careful reexamination, I do not think that the difference is sufficient 

 to justify the separation ; and I suppress the name sidmiijer, and 

 unite all the Tenssserim hill birds, alike southern and northern, 

 under lilyth's name."' 



The Burmese Black Bulbul is found on the Tonghoo, Karen, and 

 Kakhyen hills in Burmah, and in the hill country of Tenasserim, 

 where it is confined to the more open forests of the northern and 

 central portions of the province ; it does not inhabit the summits of 

 the highest hills. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Tonghoo, April G, 1874 {R. G. Lieut. E. G. Wardlaw 



IV. B.). Eam.sav. 



b. (S ad. sk. Tonglioo hills, March 29, Lieut. R.'G. Wardlaw 



^f<lo(Ii. G. W.Ii.). Ramsay. 



c. Ad. sk. Karen hills, Jan. 1875 (-R. Lieut. E. G. Wardlaw 



G. W. M.). 



3. Hypsipetes ganeesa. 



Hypsipetes ganeesa, Si/kes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 86 ; Jard. ^- Selb. III. 



Oni. (2ndser.) iv. j)l. 2 ; JJh/f/i. J. A. S. Bemj. xiv. p. 574; Gray, 



Gm. B. i. p. 23t; ; Bhith^ Cut. B. Mm. As. 8oc. App. p. 339 ; 



Hori>f. Sf Moore, Cut. B. Mv^. E.I. Co. i. p. 255 : Jerd. B. Ind. ii. 



p. 78; GrayJIand-l. i/.i.p.272, no. 3981 ; Holdsic. P. Z. S. 1872, 



p. 450 ; Fa'irb. Sfr. F. 1876, p. 258; Ilmne, t. c. p. 400; /(/. Str. 



F. 1879, p. 98 ; Lcyyc, B. Ceylon, p. 469. 

 Hypsipetes nilghirioi'i.^is, Jerd. Madr. Journ. 1839, x. p. 245: Blyth, 



J. A. S. Beny. xiv. p. 574 ; id. Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 207 ; Bp. 



Cotisp. i. p. 261; Lai/ard, Ann. Kat. Hist. xiii. 1854, p. 125; 



Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 78; Grui/, Baud-l. B. i. p. 272, no. 3983; 



Hxime, Kesfs ^- Ec/ys Ind. B. p. 280 ; id. Str. F. 1873, p. 438 ; 



Fairb. Str. F. 1877^ p. 405. 



Adidt. General colour above dark slaty grey, the wing-coverts 

 likfi the back : greater wing-coverts and quills brown, somewhat 

 paler brown on the edges of the feathers ; tail-feathers also brown, 



