on some Burmese Birds. 465 



most savagely attacked by the male bird. This species 

 is very common on the lower slopes of the Karen hills and 

 also on the Yoma hills. 



SiTTA MAGNA. 



Sitta magna, Wardlaw-Ramsay, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 677. 



Described from a single specimen obtained by my collector 

 during an expedition from Tonghoo to Karen-nee in January 

 1876. The bird described an*l figured is a female, not a male, 

 as stated, by a printer's error, in the original description. 



349. PoMATORHiNus ocHRACEicEPS. (Plate XIII.) 

 Pomatorhinus ochraceiceps, Walden, Ann. & Mag. N. H. 



ser. 4, xii. p. 487. 



Generally distributed in the hills, but not nearly so com- 

 mon as the following species. 



350. Pomatorhinus leucogaster. 



All my specimens belong to an apparently distinct race ; 

 in fact they are more nearly allied to P. olivaceus, Blyth, 

 from which they differ in having the lateral breast-feathers 

 and flanks ferruginous chestnut, as in P. leucogaster, Gould, 

 and P. scMsticeps, Hodgson, and in having a broad demi- 

 coUar of the same colour, formed by the neck-spots extend- 

 ing across the nape. In specimens of P. olivaceus there is, 

 as Mr. Blyth points out (J. A. S. B. 1847, p. 451), a rufes- 

 cent tinge on the nape ; but the ferruginous flanks alone im- 

 mediately distinguish my birds from that species. 



Lord Tweeddale has named my Karen- hill birds in his Col- 

 lection P. nuchalis. 



This species is by far the commonest of the Scimitar Bab- 

 blers in the Karen hills. It is very skulking in its habits. 

 I have often had to wait a considerable time before I could 

 even get a sight of one of these birds in a bush in which I 

 knew it to be. 



354. Pomatorhinus mari^. 



Pomatorhinus marice, Walden, Ann. & Mag. N. H. ser. 4, 

 XV. p. 403. 



This species, if not absolutely identical with P. albigularis, 



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