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Back and rump 



Lower white wing-bar. 



Black wing-bar 



Mantle 



Tail 



C. humite. 

 Each feather blue with 

 a narrow white mar- 

 gin about one-tenth 

 of an inch wide. 



The concealed parts of 

 the feathers, the tips 

 of which form this 

 bar, black. 



Broad and uniformly 

 black. 



Upper part of mantle 

 black ; lower, maroon. 



Only the middle pair 

 of feathers distinctly 

 barred with chestnut. 



C. burmannicus. 



Each feather glossy 

 black with a broad 

 white margin about 

 one-sixth of an inch 

 wide. 



The concealed parts of 

 the feathers, the tips 

 of which form this 

 bar, chestnut with a 

 firm black band be- 

 tween the chestnut 

 and the white. 



Imperfect, being mixed 

 up with large patches 

 of chestnut. 



The whole mantle 

 maroon. 



Not only the middle 

 pair of feathers but 

 the next four pairs 

 distinctly barred with 

 chestnut. 



Habitat. The Ruby Mines district of Burma and the 

 Southern Shan States. 



X. — Further Notes on Tunisian Birds, 

 By Joseph I. S. Whitaker, F.Z.S. 



In the spring of 1897 I made another short, but, from an 

 ornithological point of view, not unfruitful trip in the 

 Tunisian Regency, in the course of which I secured speci- 

 mens of a few species of birds not previously recorded by 

 me from Tunis, and obtained the nests and eggs of several 

 interesting southern species. I was also able to verify one 

 or two facts of some importance relating to the Ornis of this 

 portion of North-west Africa, and generally to add to my 

 knowledge of its avifauna. 



The route I took this time varied in some measure from 



