28 OX BIRDS FROM TENASSERBI. [1866. 



This and the kst species arc represented by specimens too immature to enable their 

 identity with the types to be established. 



r.Z.s. 1SC6, 28. Pkixi.\ BEAVANi, sp. nov. 



Nos. 35, 36, rf . Schouay Goon, Salween River. 



" Irides reddish yellow ; legs fleshy ; beak black, horny. Sliot in low jungle." 



The two specimens sent belong to a species unknown to me ; nor do they agree with the 

 descriptions of any of the Wren- Warblers inhabiting India given by Dr. Jerdon. And I have 

 failed in finding exactly similar specimens in the British Museum and other London collections. 

 It is a well-marked form, having the head and nape dull cinereous brown, contrasting distinctly 

 with the slightly ruddy brown of the dorsal plumage. The upper surface of the wings and 

 tail is of a similar colour, the outer edges of the primaries being edged with ferruginous. 

 From the nostril, and extending over and a Httle beyond the eye, a bold pure-white band. 

 The chin, throat, cheeks, breast, and belly pure white. The under wing-coverts, under tuil- 

 coverts, thigh-coverts, and flanks fulvous. The rectrices, which in the specimen sent are com- 

 paratively short, are tipped with dirty white, which edges a dark brown terminal spot, showing 

 through to the upper surface. The remaining under surface of the rectrices is pale brown, similar 

 in hue to the under surface of the quills, the inner edges of these latter being pale ferruginous. 

 The tail consists of ten feathers, which are graduated ; the first primary is about two-thirds the 

 length of the second, which is considerably shorter than the third ; the fourth is longer than the 

 third, and but slightly shorter than the fifth, which and the sixth are equal and longest; the 

 seventh is equal to the fourth. 



Wing Ixk inch ; tail If ; bill from forehead |, from nostril ro' tarsus f ; hallux f; middle 

 toe j%. 



This species appears to be most closely allied to P. cinereo-capilla, Hodgs. 



29. CORTDALLA RUFULA (VieiU.). 



Anthus rufulus, VieiU. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxvi. p. 494 (1818). 



No. 71, ? . Moulmein. 



The specimen sent is not distinguishable from Central Indian examples. Anthus malayemis, 

 Eyton, is a somewhat smaller bird ; but although regarded as distinct from C. rufula by Messrs. 

 Horsfield and Moore, I find a difficulty in detecting the specific diflereuces. 



30. Melaxoculora sult.vnea (Hodgs.). 

 Parus sultaneus, Hodgs. Ind. Rev. 1836, p. 31. 

 No. 21, S . Kyodan, Salween River. 



"In small flocks, rather noisy, in dense tree-jungles. Irides dark brown; bill greenish 

 black." A young male in immature plumage, the yellow crest hardly extending beyond the nape, 

 and the dark portion of the plumage being of a dull greenish brown. Specimens from Penang 

 and Darjeeliiig do not differ, and the geographically intermediate Tenasserim race seems to be 

 identical with tliem. 1 "ive Mr. Hodgson's designation precedence over that of Lafresnaye, 

 p 55i'. ^' ^"^ '^''^ authority of the date cited by Dr. Jerdon. Sumatran specimens have yet to be 



