DENDROCILTA. yal 
+ (29) Dendrocitta rufa kinneari, subsp. nov. 
Tue BurMEsE TREE-PIE. 
Description. Similar to the last but much darker both above 
and below, the colour of the head and back blending with one 
another, the red of the back dull and brownish. 
Measurements. Wing 137 to 151 mm.; tail 195 to 241 mm. 
Distribution. The whole of Burma south of the Chin and 
Kachin Hills down to N. Tenasserim and east into Yunnan, 
Shan States and West Siam. 
Nidification. Similar to that of D. rufa rufa. 
Habits. The Burmese Tree-pie, though equally tame and 
confiding in its ways, is not so exclusively confined to open 
country in civilization as is the Indian Tree-pie and it may also 
be found in thin forest and the more open parts of evergreen 
forest. 
Type. 2, No. 87—11. 20. 213 Brit. Mus. Coli, Toungoo. 
(30) Dendrocitta rufa saturatior. 
THE TENASSERIM TRUEE-PTE, 
Dendrocitta vagabunda saturatior Ticehurst, Bull, B. O. C., xliu, p,56 
(1922) (Kaukareyet, Amherst). 
Description. Similar to that of the Burmese Tree-pie but still 
darker and browner, the back having the red hardly visible at all. 
Colours of soft parts and Measurements as in tlie Burmese 
race. 
Distribution. Peninsular Siam and Burma but how far its 
limits extend cannot at present be defined. 
Nidification and Habits. Nothing recorded. 
(31) Dendrocitta leucogastra, 
THE SOUTHERN TREE-PIE. 
Dendrocitta leucogastra Gould, P. Z.'5., 1833, p. 57 (Malabar Coast) ; 
Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 31. 
Vernacular names. Neela val Kaka (Vel.). 
Description. Forehead, anterior half of crown, sides of the head, 
chin, throat, upper breast and thighs black; posterior crown to 
hind neck, lower breast to vent and upper tail-coverts white ; 
back, scapulars and rump chestnut-bay ; under tail-coverts chest- 
nut; wings black, the primaries with a large patch of white at 
their base; central tail-feathers grey, broadly tipped black; the 
next pair half grey and half black and the others nearly entirely 
black. 
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