Kalaw, in the Southern Shan States. 3 



with a tail of 1*5 inch in length and a plentiful mixture of 

 yellow in the lower plumage. 



5. iEoiTHiNA TiPHiA (Liun.). 

 One specimen. 



6. Hemixus tickelli (Blyth). 



7. SiTTA MAGNA. (Plate I.) 



Sitta magna, Wardlaw-Rarasaj'^, P. Z. S. 1S76, p. 677, 

 pi. Ixiii. (?). 



I obtained in the same place, but on different days, a male 

 and female of this fine Nuthatch. The female only has been 

 described, but I think that the very great general resem- 

 blance to the female of the bird that I ascertained to be a 

 male by dissection is suffioient to identify it. 



Description. — Male. A very broad streak on either side 

 of the head from the nostrils to the shoulders, passing over 

 the eye, black; the space between these streaks light bluish 

 ashy, the feathers with black bases, the black bases showing 

 through very conspicuously on the forehead and less so on 

 the ci'own ; back slaty blue ; wings blackish, edged with 

 slaty blue ; middle tail-feathers slaty blue, the next two 

 pairs black with a slaty-blue tip, the next two similar, but 

 with a subterminal patch of white, the outermost pair the 

 same, but with a band of white on the outer web ; lores, 

 sides of the head, a patch behind the ear-coverts, the chin 

 and throat white, shading into slaty blue on the breast and 

 lower parts ; ear-coverts tinged with fulvous ; thighs, vent, 

 and under tail-coverts chestnut, the feathers of the last 

 broadly tipped with white; under wing-coverts black, with 

 a white patch at the base of the primaries visible only fro. a 

 below. Total length 7'2 inches ; wing 4*6 ; tail 2'6. 



Bill bluish, paler below ; legs brown ; irides dark brown. 



It will be seen that the male resembles the female, differing 

 chiefly in the greater purity and intensity of the colouring 

 and in the slaty-blue colour of the lower parts. 



8. SlTTA FRONTALIS, Horsf. 



Only one specimen, a female, obtained. More might have 

 been shot, but I ordered the man who was shooting for me 



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