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Habits, ete. In Bangkok I have only met with this bird on the 
west side of the river. It is fairly common there in the fruit and 
betel-nut gardens which abound in that neighbourhood, and is pro- 
bably also to be found in other similar localities round Bangkok. 
The bird hops and ffits about bushes and low trees, searching 
for insects, and is somewhat of a skulker, having the habit of taking 
refuge in the recesses of a thick bush or bamboo-clump, when alarmed, 
and is then very difficult to dislodge. Its note is a trisyllabic one, 
er-r chee chee. 
Distribution. Gyldenstolpe records this bird from Northern 
Siam, and I have procured it both at Ayuthia and at Koh Lak, in 
scrub jungle. Oates states that it is found in Tenasserim to a little 
south of Tavoy, where it is replaced by an allied species, M. gularis, 
which occurs in Southern Tenasserim and the Malay Peninsula to 
Sumatra. As Koh Lak is about 260 km. (160 miles) south of Tavoy, 
it would appear that M. rubricapillus extends lower down in this 
country than it does in Burma, and it will be interesting to see what 
is its southerly limit in Siam. 
5 (243). Aegithina tiphia. The Common Tora. 
a a Aw E ; toe 
Siamese, wnnraudna (Nok krachib si thuaft). 
Description. Length, 137 mm. (5.4 in.) Male. Upper plu- 
mage, more or less black in summer, yellowish green in winter, except 
the wings and tail which are always black —the former with two white 
bars and with the quills narrowly edged with yellow. Lower plumage, 
bright yellow from chin to breast, shading into greenish yellow from 
the abdomen to the under tail-coverts. Female. Kntire upper 
plumage, greenish at all seasons, the tail duskier, and the quills 
blackish brown with yellowish edges—the two white bars being present, 
asin the male. Lower plumage, greenish yellow. 
Tris, yellowish white. Bill, bluish black. Legs, plumbeous. 
Habits, ete. This pretty little bird ig a resident species, and is 
generally found singly or in pairs, searching for its insect’ food among 
the leaves of trees. While so engaged, it utters its various melodious 
Ne 
t The b of krachib, in this and other places where it occurs, is pro- 
nounced more like ap. The words si (hua mean ‘ bean-coloured ”’. 
