104 Mr. E. W. Oates on the 



collectors procured in the Arrakan Hills, which Mr. Ogilvie- 

 Grant assigned to G. oaten, were correctly identified with 

 G. cuvieri by Mr. Hume when we wrote our joint account 

 of the birds of Pegu in 1875. Consequently my article on 

 G. cuvieri in the ' Manual' (pt. i. p. 345) must be cancelled. 



Besides the two specimens above referred to, which were 

 shot on the Arrakan Hills in the latitude of Prome, there is 

 a third example of this species in the Natural History 

 Museum without any particular history, except that it is 

 said to have come from Arrakan. 



The male has the whole upper plumage black, transversely 

 vermiculated with white. The rump-feathers are rather 

 narrowly fringed with white, the vermiculation next the 

 fringe being so near to it as almost, if not quite, to touch it. 

 The lower plumage is black throughout. The wings and 

 tail are black, more or less barred with white. 



The female has the whole body-plumage of a rich umber- 

 brown, the upper parts freckled with blackish brown, the 

 breast-feathers marked with yellowish shaft-streaks. The 

 middle three pairs of tail-feathers are pale chestnut, closely 

 and obliquely barred with black ; the others are deep 

 chestnut mottled with black, chiefly on the inner web. 



11. GENN^US WILLIAMS!. 



Germans williamsi Oates, Manual Game-Birds India, pt. i. 

 p. 342 (1898). 



Germans turneri Finn, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bong. Ixix. pt. ii. 

 p. 146 (1901). 



This species has a wide range. The type specimens were 

 shot by Capt. F. T. Williams at Kalewa, on the Chindwin 

 Hiver. Mr. Finn's types were procured about twelve m.ies 

 south of the same place. Captain W. G. Nisbett has recently 

 sent me some examples from Upper Burma, namely, two 

 males from Moukkadoung Hill, 3000-4000 feet, in the Upper 

 Chindwin district ; one male from Pinlabu ; one from 

 Kyatthin ; and another from Wela — the last three localities 

 being all in the Wuntho district. Mr. P. F. Wickham 

 has also sent me a male bird from Yaw, in the Pakokku 

 district. 



